Abstract: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the journal--the Research of Agricultural Modernization, which focuses on agricultural modernization. In order to enable readers to better understand the Research of Agricultural Modernization, this paper examined the changes of the papers published in the Research of Agricultural Modernization from 2000 to 2018 and explored the history of its publication and its academic impacts by using the bibliometric analysis method, based on the China Academic Journal Network Publishing Database (CAJD) from China National Knowledge Internet (CNKI). Results show that: firstly, the papers published in the Research of Agricultural Modernization generally showed an upward trend with the characteristics of staged changes. The length of the papers also showed an obvious upward trend. Secondly, the number of authors in the Research of Agricultural Modernization was large, but the number of the articles from independent authors was decreasing gradually, and the cooperation among authors and collaboration among teams were becoming more and more obvious. The research institutions affiliated with the first author were mostly agricultural and forestry universities and agricultural research institutes. Thirdly, the published academic papers were highly funded, which were mostly funded by national funds and provincial funds. Fourthly, the papers that were published had subject characteristics, and the keyword “agricultural modernization” appear most frequently. And lastly, the published academic papers had an important social influence with relatively standardized quality. The frequency of citations and the frequency of downloads were at a relatively high level. This journal also had a high global academic influence and was ranked in the top tier among the comprehensive academic journals of agricultural science.