Abstract: In order to summarize the status quo of research on coal mine safety management worldwide and predict its future development trend, the paper conducted a visual knowledge map analysis of relevant literatures in the field of "coal mine" and "safety management" collected by Web of Science(WOS) from 1992 to 2017 with the help of Cite Space V software. Through the visual analysis of the main research institutions, countries and authors in this field, the main research forces in this field and the distribution of researchers were described. Through the visualization analysis of the knowledge map, such as keywords and research clustering, research hotspots and future development trend in this field were described. The results show that the research in this field is mainly concentrated in China and the United States, and the main research institutions are mostly universities in different countries, that the research mainly focuses on safety education, human error, data mining and occupational disease prevention, and that data mining is one of the future research trends in this field.

Key words: coal mine, safety management, visual analysis, Cite Space V, clustering analysis