To analyze the changing trend of articles, authors and citation indexes in Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science(CJBMBS), so as to provide basis and guidance for further academic quality and editing and proofreading quality improving, and striving to build high-quality scientific and technological journal.

Chinese Medical Journal Network and Wanfang database were used to obtain the information of articles published from 2009 to 2021.The citation indexes of the CJBMBS and the discipline journals of " neurology and psychiatry" were obtained from the natural science volume of the Citation Report (Core Edition) of Chinese Scientific and Technological Journals from 2002 to 2021.All data were analyzed by Excel 2010.

The CJBMBS published 187-314 articles per year from 2015 to 2021, and the annual number of articles decreased year by year.The average number of pages per article was 3.66-6.13 pages/article, showing an increasing trend year by year.Since 2015, the CJBMBS set up 3-7 key topics every year, and published 6.4%-16.2% articles of the annual.From 2009 to 2020, the average citation volume of magazine articles was 12.8-27.9, showing an increasing trend year by year.The average number of authors per article was basically stable at 4-6.From 2001 to 2020, the core impact factor of the CJBMBS was 0.188-1.327, with a wave like change and an overall upward trend.The total frequency of core citations was 155-2 836, with a rapid increase from 2001 to 2009, a stable at 2 500 from 2007 to 2017, and a downward trend after 2014.Compared with average level of the core journals of the discipline " neurology and psychiatry" , the core impact factor and the core total citation frequency of the CJBMBS from 2009 to 2020 were both significantly higher.From 2009 to 2020, the fund paper ratio of CJBMBS was 0.42-0.84, showing an upward trend.

The citation indexes of CJBMBS are in the forefront of the discipline in recent years.In the future, we should pay more attention to the academic quality of papers and further expand the influence of the journal.

Paper analysis; Citation amount; Ratio of fund support papers; Impact factor; Number of cited