System Dynamics (SD) would like to increase its influence and promote its professional approach to understanding and solving significant problems. This paper attempts to capture a snapshot of SD research topics, and publications 2000-2005 as a metric of the scope of SD domains and publication venues. The questions addressed by this paper follow: What are the frequently published topics? What may be the emerging topics? Where do SD authors frequently publish? To this end, 35, 920,686 documents were search. Of the total, 935 met the search criteria. After review and analysis of the 935 documents, only 302 qualified as relevant SD material for further analysis.