The increasing prevalence of diabetes worldwide has attracted more and more attention; consequently, diabetes literatures have been on a steady rise over the last decade as sustaining efforts were made to control the disease. This paper, through bibliometric analysis of the 1995-2004 literatures （with a defined amount） from ISI Web of Science and other databases, revealed the amount of literatures, citations, and research focuses of diabetes of different countries, institutions, individuals and journals, reflecting the development in diabetes research over the last 10 years from a bibliometric approach