Abstract： Objective： To make a bibliometric analysis of the current research status， hotspots and future development in the field of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the treatment of liver cirrhosis in the pase five years. Methods：Documents included in CNKI from 2017 to 2021 were retrieved. The research used g- index analysis to determine the high- frequency keywords in the research field and built highfrequency keywords co-occurrence matrix through Bicomb software. Graphical clustering toolkit (gCLUTO) was used to draw high-frequency keyword co-occurrence matrix and visual map. The density and centrality of each cluster are calculated by strategic coordinate analysis. Results： A total of 1 824 articles were included in this study. We selected 64 keywords with word frequency ≥ 11 as high-frequency keywords， and used repeated bisection method to divide the documents in this research field into 5 clusters，in which 2 clusters are mature areas of research，2 clusters are weak areas of research，and 1 cluster belongs to potential research area. Conclusion： The research hotspots in the field of TCM in the treatment of liver cirrhosis focused on five aspects. The research hotspots involving treatment of liver cirrhosis with TCM， studies on the theory and clinical experience of famous experts，effect of Chinese medicine combined with western medicine on liver cirrhosis， research on correlation between TCM syndrome types and imaging diagnosis，correlation between TCM syndrome types and blood indexes，studies on the treatment of early liver cirrhosis with TCM. The study on the efficacy of proprietary Chinese medicine combined with western medicine in the treatment of liver cirrhosis is the core research topic in this field. The correlation between TCM syndrome type, imaging diagnosis and blood index of liver cirrhosis is a research direction with great development potential in this field.