In this paper, we are devoted to the construction and analysis of research network. Firstly, on the basis of data Erdos1, a co-author network is built and two novel measures are proposed to analyze properties of the co-author network. A data extraction method using string matching technique is developed and the network is visualized using UCINET. Then, the first-order and second-order entropy are defined to depict the complexity of the network, and the node’s invalidity probability and load-bearing capacity are defined to depict the robustness of the network.