The paper statistically analyses papers on sci-tech novelty retrieval in 1998-2013 in China through bibliometrics and CSSCI database. It points out that researches in this field focus on novelty quality evaluation, novelty retriever quality, empirical re-search, novelty retrieval standardization, information resource demand, mode research and so on;and thinks researches in this field ex-ist core journals, but lack core authors;mature theme researches are centralized, but lack new themes; practical researches are numer-ous, and theoretical researches lack depth. It poi...
