Abstract: Annular plate joints in composite concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) can transmit forces more effectively by installing an anchored web between double steel tubes, but the upper and lower annular plates form a couple moment, resulting in large shear deformation in the panel zone. In order to study the influence of shear deformation of composite CFST annular plate joints, six specimens were designed to conduct the low-cycle repeated load test. Two types of failure modes, i.e., beam-yield and column-yield, occured to specimens with different beam-to-column linear stiffness ratios. The joint bending moment(M)-relative angle of beam-to-column (θ) and the panel zone shear force (V)-shear angle (γ) hysteresis curves were obtained, and the joint deformation and energy dissipation were analyzed. The analysis results show that the ductility coefficient, energy dissipation coefficients of the panel shear deformation (γ) and the beam-to-column relative angle (θ) of each specimen are high, showing a good ductility performance and energy dissipation capacity of the composite CFST annular plate joint. When γ is considered, the calculated lateral displacement of the column top is less than 4% smaller than the experimental results, and it is estimated that the shear deformation contributes greatly to the lateral displacement, accounting for 21%~30%. The difference between the total energy consumption generated by θ & γ and the input energy of external work (W) is not more than 6%, which verifies the principle of energy conservation. The energy consumption generated by γ accounts for 22%~33% of the external work of the load. γ accounts for 13%~37% of the total angle, and the proportion of energy consumption generated by γ in the total energy consumption is about 10% greater than that of shear deformation itself. With the increase of height-to-width ratio and beam-column stiffness ratio, the proportion of γ in the total angle increases gradually, and the proportion of energy consumption generated by it also increases.