Abstract: Statistical analysis was made of the citation of articles published in Acta Psychologica Sinica in the last six years,The distribution of the number of citations, number of self-citations,types of articles,language and year were also quantitatively described in the purpose of comprehending the citation situation of core journals in the field of psychology,and also to find out some laws of citations of the articles on psychology in China as well as problemsreflected.

Key words: Acta Psychologica Sinica, citation statistics, citation analysis