Abstract: Taking the China HowNet database as the data source, and adopting the literature measurement method, the paper gives a comprehensive investigation and analysis of the research progress of innovation performance, with an aim to sort out the development context and characteristics of innovation performance research. The results show that the domestic innovation performance research has been increasingly practicality-oriented, closely related to the grand national development strategies, and focuses on innovation performance, technological innovation performance, performance evaluation, technological innovation and other issues. Meanwhile, financing constraints, innovation investment and enterprise innovation performance are also frequently discussed in these two years, which is expected to become hot topics and research direction in the future.