Based on Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database of Web of Science, taking the top ten percent highly cited earth sciences papers from 2012 to 2016 of every year as the source of statistical analysis, the paper makes a bibliometrics study to the development trend of earth sciences in recent years from the general overview of the international earth sciences scientific papers, the main countries and institutions, and the research hot spot, aiming at providing references for the related administrations to understand the development trend of the earth sciences research.