Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】The requirements and appeals of corporate information disclosure by the Chinese govern⁃
ment and the society have become higher and higher. However, China's current corporate information disclosure mecha⁃
nism is still not perfect, and scholars need to conduct more detailed research on corporate information disclosure behavior.
The paper lies in the application of knowledge mapping to summarized the research on the field of corporate information dis⁃
closure systematically, and provide the future research trends on corporate information disclosure. 【Method/process】This pa⁃
per studies 1810 articles on corporate information disclosure in CSSCI journals published on China Knowledge Network
from 1998 to 2019. Through the method of bibliometrics and knowledge network analysis tool Citespace show the research
hotspots, status quo and trends of further studied.【Result/conclusion】By using the knowledge mapping method to analyze
the papers of the corporate information disclosure we can understand that the researchers’direction is mainly about the dis⁃
closure of CSR information, corporate carbon information, corporate environmental information, corporate accounting infor⁃
mation and voluntary information disclosure, etc. These papers mainly based on its pre-existing empirical research. In the
future, we should make the research on the construction of corporate information disclosure system under the background of
new era, the institution of information disclosure under the background of big data, and how to deal with the relationship be⁃
tween external stakeholders in the process of information disclosure as the research direction in this field.