【Purpose/significance】This paper is intended to reveal the status of papers published in the field of the interna-tional mainstream information management journals, to snoop distribution of research institutions of information manage-ment disciplines in recent ten years, as well as its research hotspot and research frontier, offer the reference for the domes-tic scholar’s in-depth research in this field.【Method/process】This paper based on the 4495 bibliographies of articles fromthe database of ISI Web of Science which published during the period of 2007-2016 in 10 representative journals in thefield of information management, using Cite Space to analysis citation data and subject words, and getting the relevantknowledge maps.【Result/conclusion】It shows the geographical and research institutions in the field of information manage-ment, Key node literatures, major academic representatives, high frequency keywords, explosive words and so on, revealingthe research force distribution, research hotspots and development front of information management discipline.