Abstract：Taking CNKI database from 1992 to 2017 as the data source, CiteSpace V is used to draw knowledge maps of high-yield authors, publishing agencies, and key words for the studies on the ecological environment in China's mining areas, showing the research hotspots and frontiers of the ecological environment in China's mining areas. The results show that after 8 years of slow precipitation, the studies on the ecological environment in the mining area began to develop rapidly in 2000. The volume of records has stopped growing since 2013. Scholars led by Bai Zhongke and Hu Zhenqi made outstanding contributions in this field. China University of Mining and Technology, China University of Geosciences, and Xi'an University of Science and Technology are high-yield scientific research institutions. China Mining, Metal mines and Coal Engineering are the top three journals as to the number of relevant papers published. The research on the ecological environment in domestic mining areas mainly focuses on the development of hot spots such as land reclamation, heavy metals, coal mining areas, and ecological restoration. Remote sensing monitoring and landscape ecological reconstruction in mining areas will be the focus of attention in the future.

Keyword：ecological environment in mining areas;CiteSpace V;knowledge mapping;research hotspot;frontier dynamics;