Using “Information Retrieval” as a keyword and based on CNKI, this paper makes a quantitative analysis of the articles collected by core journals of library and information science of our country on information retrieval from 1999 to 2003 , and points out the amount of the papers, relative authors on information retrieval and the institutions they work for, main contents and core journals of information retrieval, and then analyze the situation of information retrieval during this five years.