Abstract: In this study, the bibliometrics method was used to analyze published papers in Chinese knowledge link database with the classification number S96 from 2012 to 2016, and their citation data in 2017 in the aspects of discipline publication, citation, topic relevance, discipline high-impact journals, highly-cited authors and institutions, aiming for sticking with the development trends of aquaculture technology in China, and providing references for researchers, scientific research management departments and editors of scientific journals. Results showed that: from 2012 to 2016, a total of 14168 papers from 6358 institutions in the aquaculture technology field published 20789 academic papers in 996 journals, and 3427 papers were cited in 2017, with an overall citation rate of 21.3%. The total citation frequency was 5459, the citation frequency per paper was 0.26. The average citation frequency of the top 10 papers cited in 2017 was 10.1, which was 1.4 times that of all 38 highly-cited papers. Keywordssuch as “amino acid”, “growth performance” and “fatty acid” have higher appearing frequency of documents, which demonstrated a research hotspot in 2017. Multiple concepts with Keywordssuch as “amino acid”, “fatty acid”, “muscle”, “textural property”, and “nutrition value” are related to each other, which constituted the most prominent research cluster in the discipline. The top three journals of the h index are Journal of Fisheries of China, Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, and Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica. The number of articles published by the highly-cited authors in the five-year discipline ranges from one to eleven. Besides, the distribution of journals varies from one to eight. Collaborative papers by highly-cited authors in the field of aquaculture technology are more common. In this study, we could find that with the continuous improvement of scientific research foundation, the research capacity of aquaculture technology is continuously improved. The development of aquaculture technology disciplines will be steadily based on the mainstay of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, China Ocean University, Shanghai Ocean University and Guangdong Ocean University, with the surport of scientific jounrals such as Journal of Fisheries of China, Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica and Journal of Fisheries Sciences of China.