Objective To collect the basic information on publications in Chinese Journal of Perinatal Medicine,and understand the current situation and set the goals for the future. Methods Information on all publications in this journal from 1998 to 2007 was collected.The distribution of all publications,Price Index and relative data were analyzed. Results There were 1368 publications altogether during the past 10 years.The first six kinds of papers were original articles(508,31.7%),short articles(258,18.9%),case reports(194,14.2%),reviews(122,8.9%),experimental studies(90,6.6%)and brief communications(83,14.2%).47.9% of all publications were from Beijing,Guangdong and Shanghai.The first three areas who had the most submissions were Beijing,Shandong and Guangdong in 2007.The citation frequency analysis showed that 708 publications were cited at 1east once and only two were cited over 80 times.53.4% of all cited publications were original articles and experimental studies. Conclusions Original articles and short articles are the two main types of publications in this journal,however original articles and experimental studies contributed to half of the publications being cited.Publications in this journal are focused in few areas and this might be related to the number of submissions.