Based on the citation information provided by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, the citation analysis was conducted on according to the citation data during 2013-2016. The results showed that there were 605 articles published by Journal of Fishery Sciences of China from 2013-2016, which were cited for 881 times, with a paper reference rate of 64.46% and an average cited frequency of 1.46 (times/article). A total of 4221 papers were cited before the deadline (December 31, 2016), and the total cited frequency was 7458 times. Among the core journals, other cited rate has maintained a high level of 90%, the immediacy index is basically kept at 13%, and the funded paper ratio is about 80%. Through the distribution of key words in the text, it is found that the hottest topic of research is "growth" (70 articles), following by "gene cloning" (44 articles) and "" (23 articles). During 2013 to 2016, there were 1463 first-authorscited on . Among those, the more highly cited papers respectively belong to the 7 research fields such as fishery resources and the sustainable development, fishery ecology and environment, aquatic genetic breeding, aquatic nutrition and feed, fish disease research, aquaculture technology and quality&safety of aquatic products processing. In addition, 20 senior authors, 20 institutions and 20 highly cited authors have been selected to provide the talent information reserve for periodicals. According to bibliometrics analysis, fisheries science research hot spots, core authors and institutions were efficiently explored, which provides support for the development of periodicals and references for researchers to understand the status of the subject.