Abstract: 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.

Key words: &ldquo, Economic Research Journal&rdquo, 丨bibliometrics丨retrieval word