[Purpose/significance] The paper analyzes the 542 literatures related to knowledge organizations in 2007-2016, which are included in the core database of Web of ScienceTM, and aims to grasp the current research situation in this field and provides references for domestic relevant research. [Method/process] Based on the method of bibliometrics, the CiteSpace software was used to analyze and draw the knowledge map from the aspects of annual issuers, authors, countries and research institutions, keywords, co-citation and so on. [Result/conclusion] The results show that authors the most publications are B. Hjorland, I. Dahlberg , V. Broughton etc; the cooperation between researchers and institutions is relatively rare; knowledge organization research areas focus on the knowledge organization itself and classification, ontology and so on; B. Hjorland, H.A. Olson, I. Nonaka and other cited scholars and their cited literatures have high influence on this theme; Knowledge Organization, Journal of Documentation is most important journals for the knowledge organization.