This article presents an analysis on the 990 papers published in Thermal Power Generation during the years from 2006 to 2008.The statistics indicate that the average number of the published papers per issue is 27.5 during the three years

and many pieces incline to cover technical application.The papers in the columns of Technical Exchange account for 61.1% of the total.There are 854 authors who have published papers as the first author

of whom 106 are core authors

and their signatures appear as a co-author 2998 times.The cooperative degree for authors is 3.03

and the cooperative rate is 75.9%.