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Research trend on specific subject can be identified by bibliometric analysis for the representative journal on that subject. Even though abundant bibliometric analysis has been conducted for the diverse subjects in Social Sciences, the subject of productivity has not been performed by bibliometric analysis yet. This research was conducted to examine research trends on productivity by bibliometric analysis of Productivity Review, the representative journal on productivity in Korea, published by Korean Productivity Association. Total of 843 papers published in Productivity Review from the first issue in March, 1987 to those in December, 2012 have been analysed for (1) author types, (2) research methods, (3) levels of analysis, (4) research industries. Research results are as follows; First, most authors were from domestic universities, and the participation of practitioners and international researchers were very limited. Second, the major research methods on productivity in Economics and Business Administration were the quantitative analysis and the survey respectively. This research is comprehensive and first bibliometric analysis, and is expected to be the ground research for the future research.