Problems of commercialoriented, prejudice towards region and language, imbalance in disciplines, ideological prejudice towards social and humanities journals exist in American academic journal evaluation. Utilitarian makes Chinese journal evaluation the tool of scientific management and performance evaluation. Problems of overemphasis on bibliometric quantitative evaluation, low objectivity and lack of devleopment and internation of the evaluation data, standardless citation and lack of citation database directly result in the accuracy of the data, inaccuracy of discipline classification of the university journals, the evaluation lag and surveillance mechanism and localization of Chinese science and humanities journals evaluation exist in China’s academic journal evaluation. In the future, evaluation value, the application of text digging in journal evaluation, content relevance evaluation guided by social demand, transition from discipline evaluation to physics speciality evaluation, reasonable evaluation mechanism and harmonious academic atmosphere will be the evaluation tendency.