Cited papers published in the Journal of Huazhong Agricultural University during 2006-2007 were analyzed statistically using Chinese Citation Database of CNKI.Results showed that 316 papers among 366 papers (86.3%) published were cited with 1582 times cited in total and the mostly cited 23 times individually.Among 14 columns,the column of “Physiology and biochemistry”,“Horticulture and forestry science” were mostly cited,and “Literature review”,the characteristic column is the secondly most cited,and citation ratios of papers in“Others” are 62.5%.The top 20 papers with higher citation ratio were distributed in 9 columns,among them 7 papers are in the column “Horticulture and forestry science”,and 3 papers both in column“Aquatic farming” “Microbiology”.Twelve authors of the top 20 papers mostly cited are from Huazhong Agricultural University.Thus,the journal should set up unique columns based on the predominant disciplines of The University to enhance its academic influence.