Selecting the fulltext database of Chinese journals in CNKI database as the data source, bibliometric analysis on the relevant scientific and technological papers of 10 Chinese core journals in the field of geology have been carried out. The characteristics and change trend of the publication volume, fund support, discipline distribution and key words of scientific and technological papers published in recent five years have been analyzed emphatically. The basic information and research hotspots in the field of geology in China in recent years have been known. The analysis results can provide some references for further grasping the development direction of the discipline in the future.