This paper systematically reviewed the research status of ESI discipline at home and abroad. By the bibliometric analysis of the papers with ESI discipline as the theme published in the CNKI core journals from January 2003 to June 2017,the following problems were found in the research field:the number of papers increased every year but still not enough,the distribution of journals and institutions was not reasonable,the author's professional structure needed to be optimized,the core authors group had not yet formed,discipline ranking and first-class discipline construction were the focuses of research,the research subjects were mostly application countermeasures while basic research papers were very scarce. To solve the above problems,some concrete improvement measures were put forward.