Objective To summarize the hotspots and frontiers of nursing research on post-stroke depression（PSD） in China and analyze the stage characteristics and trends of this field. Methods The related literature on PSD nursing research in China was electronically searched from 2010 to 2019. The CiteSpace software was used for knowledge mapping and visual analysis. Results A total of 779 PSD nursing research literature published from 2010 to 2019 were retrieved from the CNKI database

and the annual number of papers published exceeded 60. The top five high-frequency keywords included in the literature were stroke

depression

psychological care

PSD

and nursing

and the number of network nodes in the keyword cooccurrence map was N=423

the number of connections was E=1 390

the network density was D=0.0 156

and the largest node was the stroke. The earliest emergent word included in the literature was the nursing intervention

followed by psychological nursing intervention. The life ability and psychological status successively emerged in 2016 and 2017

which continued until now and became the research frontier. In the field of PSD nursing research

the authors with a total number of two or more documents issued are the core authors. A total of 64 core authors and a total of 139 documents are issued by the core authors

which have not yet formed the core author group. Conclusion At present

more and more attention has been paid to the problem of depression in patients after stroke in nursing research in China

and more effective specific nursing intervention measures will be proposed

and more and more attention will be attached to nursing humanistic care in terms of content.