Petrology and mineralogy are important branches of Earth Science, and related research can provide in-depth understanding of significant scientific issues such as planetary formation and evolution, resource enrichment, and environmental changes on habitable Earth. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica is an important domestic journal in the field of petrology and mineralogy. In-depth exploration of the articles published in the journal helps to sort out the research progress and provide background information for discipline practitioners to conduct further research. It can also provide a reference for the journal's future direction of publication. This paper conducts quantitative research on the arcticles published in Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica from 1982 to 2022 using big data analysis and visualization technologies. The research found that petrology and mineralogy have always been the main focus of the journal. Geochemistry, granite, zircon U-Pb dating, adsorption, and mineralogy are hot keywords of publication. Among them, "geochemistry" has the highest co-occurrence intensity, closely related to keywords such as granite, rock genesis, volcanic rocks, and petrology; followed by lattice parameters, with relevant keywords such as optical properties, powder diffraction data, and new minerals. The specific research topics include five different themes, such as rock composition and characterization analysis, study of metamorphic processes and rock metamorphism, characteristics of mineral deposits and ore-forming processes, analysis of sedimentary environments and stratigraphic features, and research on environmental mineralogy. Compared with data from renowned domestic and international journals in the field of petrology and mineralogy, it is believed that future publications should encourage the development and application of new technologies and methods, interdisciplinary research, and new paradigm research driven by big data and machine learning.