Through the quantitative analysis of its output of scientific articles, we can understand the current status and its scientific influence of a institute. By using the bibliometrics method and based on the data of the earth sciences articles of Chinese authors in Science Citation Index (Expanded) from the year 2000 through 2004, this article counted and analyzed all the papers and their citation, and further presented the status and international influence of Chinese geosciences scientist team who have the abilities of scientific communion with foreign scientists and the abilities publishing paper in SCI journals.The analytic results showed that the number of Chinese Geosciences articles increase with 21.87% per year from the year 2000 through 2004, and their citation frequency per paper is 2.57 in the five years. The numbers of Chinese geosciences papers of the secondary disciplinary taxonomy from high to low are: geology, geography, space physics, environment science, geophysics, atmospheric science, oceanography, geochemistry.
The Earth sciences scientists that have the abilities of international academic exchanges and publishing article in SCI journals are not more than 8000 people, and they are mainly in the institutes belong to the Chinese Academy of Science and the universities belong to the Ministry of Education. The Earth sciences SCI papers published by the scientists belong to the two systems account for 83.58% of total amount of Chinese Earth sciences SCI articles.