Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】The paper studies the development characteristics, scientific research cooperation trend and re?
search dimension of the field of international academic social networks so as to provide enlightenment for the research and develop?
ment of academic social networks in China.【Method/process】The paper studies the research strength in the field of international aca? demic social networks from the perspectives of country, discipline and author, comprehensively analyzes its scientific research coop? eration situation, refines the current research direction in the field of international academic social networks, and summarizes the fu? ture development trend.【Result/conclusion】The paper reveals that the research on international academic social networks presents the characteristics of multi-national cooperation and multi-disciplinary integration around multiple rights centers. China, the United States and the United Kingdom are important countries in this field, and computer science, information science and library science are important disciplines in this field; Scientific research management evaluation, user adoption and information recommendation are the main research directions in this field. Academic evaluation and talent discovery based on academic social network interaction will be a new research hotspot.【Innovation/limitation】Based on visualization tools, the paper systematically reviews the research status of inter? national academic social networks from different dimensions such as country, discipline, author and theme, and discusses its future de? velopment trend.