采用文献计量方法，以1978—2010年《经济研究》上刊发的论文为研究对象，利用中国知网，通过选择论文中出现的某些高频词和关键词作为检索词，在检索中可以发现该刊于不同历史时期发表的论文所具有的某些特征，即1978—1989年的研究重心是为改革呐喊，主要研究方法为传统政治经济学研究方法；1990—1999年研究重心是国企改革和市场经济体系建设，主要研究方法为现代经济学研究方法；2000—2010年的研究重心是经济增长与金融市场，主要研究方法为数理方法。可见，作为中国经济理论界颇有代表性的专业学术期刊，《经济研究》刊发的论文较大程度上反映了中国社会经济的发展、变化，同时也体现了中国经济研究重心、研究方法和研究风格等的发展及变迁。

As a representative academic journal in China’s economic theory circles, papers published in “Economic Research Journal” reflects China's social as well as economic development and reform and opening up process to a large extent, meanwhile they also reflect the development and change of Chinese Economy’s research priorities, research methods and research styles. Using bibliometrics methods and taking “Economic Research Journal” as the studying object in the period of 1978 to 2010, this paper chooses the high frequency words and key words which appear in the papers of this journal as retrieval words by making use of CNKI, to find certain characteristics of these papers in the journal published in different history period, and then interpret and analyze them in combination with the changes of Chinese social economic environment.