Abstract: Modern pharmaceutics has been developing over the last 60 years. This review aims to analyze the current status of pharmaceutics in terms of the academic research and industrial development from the perspectives of global development trend, collaboration network, research hotspot and product approval on the basis of 136,142 papers of pharmaceutical research and data of 38,117 FDA-approved drugs from 1980 to 2019, with an attempt to provide reference for the pharmaceutical research and transfer of research achievements in the future of China.