Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】Mining the citing behaviors of international publications from Chinese papers is an effective tech⁃nique to analyze the usage of international publications of Chinese scholars, so as to improve the utilization of international publica⁃tions and the evaluation system on academic publications, and to develop proper literature guarantee strategy of for academic research.【Method/process】In this paper, the motivation of citing international publications, the correlation between reference ratio of interna⁃tional publications and journal quality, and distribution of research topics are investigated in terms of attitude from reviewers and bib⁃liometric indicators【Result/conclusion】The results of case study show that, most reviewers maintain a positive attitude on citing inter⁃national publications. Besides, the reference ratio of international publications is significantly correlated with journal impact factors,while it is varying between different research topics because of distinct degree of internationalization.【Innovation/limitation】The citing patterns of international publications in Chinese academic articles have been detected and explained through quantitative analysis.