Abstract:Ecological civilization evaluation is the foundation and prerequisite of the construction of ecological civilization and achieve the sustainable development. In this paper, the development on the research of ecological civilization evaluation was visually revealed through a series of bibliometrics and visualization methods, including the annual output of papers, the distribution of journals, authors and organization, as well as the content analysis maps of keyword co-occurrence network. Results showed that the hot topics include ecological environment, water ecological civilization, regional ecological civilization, ecological industry and evaluation method, and the core authors and research institutions were identified. There are some problems that go against the development of ecological civilization evaluation: the evaluation theory is quite weak, innovation cooperation among research teams is few, and ecological civilization evaluation index system needs to be optimized. The direction of further study of ecological civilization is indicated.