This paper analyzes the academic literatures, which were published from 2000 to 2012 and embodied in CSSCI, on China’s land expropriation reform with the help of biliometric tools in order to reveal the status quo and problems of this research field. The result shows that, this research field has attracted most famous professors of land resource management and a large number of researchers; most institutes are famous universities in China; the annual distribution of literatures suggests that the researches are policy-oriented; all literatures have high quality; these researches could be divided by the keywords into three routes. The land expropriation compensation and resettlement, the urbanization and landless farmers, and rights and processes during the land expropriation. Problems of this research field include: the basic knowledge of this research is weak; the ability to transfer academic results to public policy is not strong and the distribution of research hot points is unbalanced; and the distribution of research disciplines and methods is also unbalanced. Therefore, this paper proposes several suggestions, for example, related research about China’s land expropriation reform should focus on the key points in research methodology, research on important problems and the transformation from rational evolution to actuality should be strengthened and finally multidisciplinary integration should be emphasized. 