Abstract: Using the visual science measurement software CiteSpaceV, 811 shared economic related research literatures from 2007 to 2017 included in CNKI were analyzed. Through research cooperation network analysis, author cooperation analysis and keyword co-occurrence network analysis, the research institutions, research hotspots and research frontiers in the domestic shared economy are analyzed to further clarify the research status, development trends and existing problems in the sharing economy to provide suggestions and guidance for further promoting the sustainable development of the sharing economy. The results show that there are 46 research institutions in the sharing economy, and the main institutions are concentrated in major research institutions, mainly of economics and management. In recent years, scholars studying the sharing economy have increased, but most researchers are still in relatively independent research state, cooperation is relatively rare; the field of shared economic research mainly focuses on issues such as shared economic models, shared enterprises, national policies, and credit systems.

Key words: sharing economy, CiteSpace, knowledge map, current situation, situation analysis