This paper is intended to make the reader a comprehensive analysis of the cited articles in the leading periodical during the period 2000-2006 and helps place that information into identifying the main research trend in the context of weightlifting/weightlifter. We used citation analysis as method to examine the impact on the discipline of a number of articles dealing in two databases: SCIE and SSCI. The results find 98 related publications appeared in 25 different high qualities of journals. It is focused on systematical investigation and analysis of a variety of distributions such as citation frequency, authors and years of the cited articles as well as the cited periodicals. We suggest more scholars and multidisciplinary conducting r the development of weightlifting.