Statistics and Analysis for Various Data Indexes of the Northwestern Geology from 2002 to 2015

As we all know, the statistics and analysis are very important for the development of academic journals.To continuously improve the academic level of the Northwestern Geology, the author introduces the situation of six famous statistical agencies of China in detail, such as the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, WanFang Data Co.,Ltd., China National Knowledge Internet Co.,Ltd.,Chongqing Vip Information Co.,Ltd., Taiwan Airiti Data Co.,Ltd., and Beijing Chaoxing Information Technology Development Co., Ltd. After comparing and analyzing, the data of Chinese Scientific and Technical Journal Citation Reports(referred to as CJCR) has been selected as data basis, which was written by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China. Based on these data of CJCR, the author has made statistics and analysis for various indexes of the Northwestern Geology from 2002 to 2015, such as citation index, source index, discipline class index, and comprehensive ranking index.The results indicated that the number of academic papers, the number of references and the ratio of fund-supported papers of the Northwestern Geology had experienceda steady growth from 2002 to 2015, which suggest that the academic level of the Northwestern Geology is gradually increasing for many years and is exhibiting greater social influence. According to the statistics and analysis data in CJCR, as well as the comparison between the Northwestern Geology and a large number of other academic journals, the author believes that the quality of scientific and technical papers is the survival basis of academic journals.Within all statistics indexes, the impact factor and total cited frequency are more important. In order to increase the citation index of the Northwestern Geology, the experts and scholars should been invited to write the academic papers for this journal. Finally, aiming to improve the social status and academic influence of the Northwestern Geology, the reasonable suggestions have been given, and a great development of the Northwestern Geology has been wishing in this paper.