Based on document review of the 849 papers published in 24 issues of “Journal of Sichuan University (Engineering Science Edition) ” from 2006 to 2009, the statistical data including the load of issued papers and citations, the language, category, and publish year of citations, etc. was analyzed with the methods of quantitative bibliometrics. Systematic and scientific data was provided, the change and development of JSCU were studied. The result shows that the load of papers issued in JSCU is steadily up especially in 2009. On average annual paper load is 212 and 87.5% of the issued papers are fund-supported. All the papers have citations. The average number of citations is 12 for each paper. The citations in English cover 52.9% and the citations form journals cover 70.4%. The Price index is going up during the last three years and the average is 38.95%. This indicates that the novelty of papers is increasing. The analysis provides ample evidence to illustrate the innovation and academic level of JSCU.
