Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWfMS) has become an effective platform for representing and managing large-scale complex scientific computing processes, which glue together a large number of complex applications for data management, analysis, simulation, and visualization, and then assist the scientists for scientific discovery. In this paper, the current studies of Scientific Workflow (SWF) are reviewed firstly, including SWF models, presentations, languages, composition, validation, scheduling and provenance, as well as fault tolerance and system security. Then, the latest studies in recent years are also discussed. Based on the analysis of the key technologies and the latest development, the drawbacks in this domain are pointed out and some suggestions towards the future development are made. Finally, the recent research status quo in China is presented and some suggestions are given.