[Purpose/significance] Interdisciplinary research is currently an important means to solve some complexity problems. Whether its research activities have good development potential and trend in the future is an important con? cern for researchers. This paper attempts to explore the sustainable development measurement method to interdisciplin? ary research, in order to provide the necessary help for the selection of interdisciplinary research. [Method/process] Taking Chinese periodical papers published in the field of emergency management from 1992 to 2019 as an example, this paper comprehensively identifies the sustainable development characteristics of interdisciplinary research from three aspects: interdisciplinarity, academic impact and social impact. And then fits the cumulative distribution func? tion, calculates the cumulative acceleration obtained by the second-order derivation. [Result/conclusion] The sustain? able development of interdisciplinary research can be identified by the change of cumulative acceleration index, and the problem can be explored more deeply from interdisciplinarity, academic impact and social impact. When the cumu? lative acceleration distribution of historical data increases monotonically, the research presents a sustainable develop? ment trend, which shows that the method is predictable to some extent.