Having found illumination in Toury’s analysis of contributions for the Target, the author makes an investigation on the aims of and the contributions for the five international translatological journalsand maps out the changing positions of the countries/regions in the world of translation studies. The article shows that China，UK，Spain and USA are in the leading position in the world of translation studies, followed by Canada, Belgian and Austria, and German, Israel and Finland fall behind all above-mentioned ones. The others come after the last country on the table .