As an important academic exchange platform for the combination of major practical and theoretical issues in the field of management science, the Journal of Science Research Management is in line with the modern development of science and technology and management, and has gone through 40 years synchronizing with the spring of science. This paper discusses and analyzes the literature published in the Journal of Science Research Management since it was founded in 1980 by using the method of bibliometrics, and tries to present the evolution characteristics of high-frequency keywords, high cited references, subject context and research hotspots in the course of its development in the past forty years, and analyzes the growth mystery of the Journal of Science Research Management in the past 40 years, aiming at providing a successful model for academic research and periodical construction, and promoting the cooperative development of the era and scientific research. 

The research found that: (1) Throughout the forty years of development, the Journal of Science Research Management based on the purpose of running the journal oriented by practical problems of meeting the needs of the times, focuses on a number of cutting-edge topics in the field of management science, such as technological innovation, enterprise innovation management, science and technology system and policy, enterprise capability and competitive advantage, reinvigorates the vitality of the Chinese economic constructions, leads the Chinese management circle to provide theoretical reference and guidance for local enterprises to shape their competitive advantages, so as to make outstanding academic contributions to the construction of the theoretical system of management innovation with domestic characteristics. (2) The Journal of Science Research Management follows the evolution of the times, combines the reform of scientific and technological system and the development process of building an innovative country, and presents the internalized logic of "comprehensively deepen reform-technological innovation highlights —enterprise technology catching up —building a powerful country with science and technology" in the historical stage of four decades, which puts forward and develops a new paradigm of innovation theory with Chinese characteristics, provides sufficient academic guidance for the innovation management practice of local enterprises, and has made outstanding contributions to promote the development of the Chinese science and technology system and policy transformation. (3) In the face of the opportunities and challenges brought by the accelerated restructuring of the global innovation competition pattern, the Journal of Science Research Management always complies with the national policies, guidelines and innovation pulse, keeps pace with the times, continuously innovates and develops. The Journal of Science Research Management has been based on the Chinese management situation, focuses on the development process of the reform of science and technology system and the construction of innovative country, leads the academic frontier, strives to promote the sustainable development of local enterprises and the construction of theoretical system with Chinese characteristics by academic research, and wholeheartedly providing academic reference and guidance for the progress of management innovation practice. 

This paper analyzes the growing mystery of the Journal of Science Research Management in the past forty years. Although there are some deficiencies in this paper, the more important significance of this paper lies in the hope of arousing in-depth thinking on the construction and academic research of the same kind of journals in China. On the one hand, based on the situation in China, the scholars in academic circles should build a theoretical system of innovation with Chinese characteristics, and strive to provide a management side for innovation governance in the new era. On the other hand, the scholars should tell the story of the Chinese management innovation, publicize Chinese ideas, contribute global knowledge, and make China and Chinese enterprises stand in the forest of world nations with confidence.