Abstract: To quantitatively and qualitatively reveal the research progress of Megalobrama amblycephala, taking the published literatures in SCIE and CSCD as data sources, the author compared the published years, main research countries or regions, research institutions, the prolific authors, highly cited literature and journal distribution. The results showed that the research of Megalobrama amblycephala and the scholars were mainly in China. With the deepening of the research in recent years, number of related literatures in SCIE increased rapidly and even beyond that in CSCD, indicating that the research was changing from China to international. The published years of highly cited literatures were from 1992 to 2008 in CSCD, while were from 2008 to 2012 in SCIE. Currently, the genetic improvement of Megalobrama amblycephala becomes a hotspot. There are several formed academic research teams focusing on the research of Megalobrama amblycephala in China, such as teams in Huazhong Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, and Shanghai Ocean University.