【Purpose/significance】Reading research is an important topic of library and information science, and it is also the research field of other disciplines such as cognitive science, psychology, education science and linguistics. Understanding the status of reading research at home and abroad thoroughly will help people in library and information science to getthe overall picture of reading research correctly, so as to expand and deepen reading research.【Method/process】In the stepsof international reading research and reading research of information science, then reading research in China mainland andin library and information science, Citespace was applied to make a thorough analysis on reading research which take dataof documents on reading research during 2006-2015 in core journals of SSCI/A&HCI/SCIE and CNKI as an example.【Re-sult/conclusion】Reading development is still the frontier problem in the field of reading research; the new reading phenome-non and reading behavior in the new information environment have become the hot topic of reading research; the display de-gree of reading research doing by library and information science is increasing day by day.