The profession of Landscape has been developed for over twenty years in Taiwan. It is related to many fields, such as architecture, civil engineering, horticulture, urban planning, structural engineering, economics, etc. The government intends recently to have a new professional category, called Landscape, in their professional system. In order to identify this field from the others, one must look at the quantity and quality of the research done in the past. This study gives an overview on the dissertations as well as the research papers published in journals between 1981 and 2000 in Taiwan. The statistics shows 1162 dissertations from 43 universities and colleges with 140 graduate schools, and 759 papers published on 34 types of periodicals. There are also 25 research topics being categorized and analyzed. The findings of this study are as follows: 1. In the past twenty years, landscape research topics in Taiwan focused on urban landscape, landscape and resource evaluation, leisure and recreation, environment and ecology, environmental psychology, behavior and ethics, etc. 2. The landscape research has been an issue in the academic fields in Taiwan since twenty years ago. It reached a peak period in 2000. 3. The order of the research context is application, methodology and theory. 4. Many colleges tend to do similar research subjects. As a result, the academic uniqueness of the colleges is lost. 5. In the international scene, new issues such as landscape ecology, urban ecology have become crucial in recent years.