Xie Weihong, Dong Ce, Li Zhongshun
This paper regarded the 325 related to business ecosystem's research literatures which were from Web of Science database during the 2001-2016 as the research object,using bibliometrics method,based on citespace to analyze business ecosystem research from the five aspects,such as the trend of publications,anthors,nation and research institutions,keywords,co-citation analysis,and obtained the following results.First,the most publications authors were Yongjiang Shi,Elizabeth Chang,Ke Rong etc..Second,the above mentioned co-operation was relatively rare as other researchers and institutions tend to work independently of others.Third,business ecosystem research field focused mainly on strategy,performance,management,value creation and so forth.Fourth,Moore,Iansiti,Adner,Porter,Chesbrough and their papers were highly impact authors and documents in business ecosystem research field.Fifth,"Strategic Management Journal","Harvard Business Review","Academy of Management Review" etc.were the most important publication journals for the high cited reference.