【Purpose/significance】This paper analyzes the evolution of China’s information behavior research themes in the past ten years by means of quantitative analysis, with a view to providing reference and help for researchers in this field and providing reference and guidance for the sustainable development of this field.【Method/process】Using CNKI as the data resource, this paper retrieved related literatures about"information behavior"in 2008-2012 and 2013-2017. Based on the co-word analysis and clustering analysis results, we used Mindmapper to draw the thematic evolution to analyze the situation of themes in recent ten years. By drawing the strategic diagrams, we discussed the maturity and core degree of the themes.【Result/conclusion】In the past ten years, the subjects mainly focus on such aspects as library services, academic services, information organization, information retrieval, protection of citizen’s personal information, information literacy education, virtual community and information user research. In the past five years, new research topics emerged.