Based on the statistics of 1 914 papers published in 105 issues ofthe Journal of laboratory animal science from 2007 to 2024( first three issues) , the quantitative analysis of the basic information of published papers ( amount of papers, fund project papers, authors, organization distribution, regional distribution, cooperation degree and co-authorship rate, etc. ) and the paper content ( research direction and research hotspot) is performed in this paper. The purpose of this article is to explore the role of this journal, and to understand and grasp the status and trend in the discipline development of laboratory animal science, and also to provide reference for researchers to build academic exchange and dialogue platform in the future.