Objective To explore the characteristics and development of published papers in the past five years of gastric cancer surgery

and to study the hotspots and frontiers in this field. Methods Searched all the data (excluded data of the meeting notice and case report) from January 2013 to December 2017 in China National Knowledge Internet (CNKI) with the keywords "gastric cancer" and "surgery".Analyzed the authors

institutions

keywords with Cite Space 5.4.R4 (64bit) and made a visual map. Results A total of 5 023 articles were included

with 274 authors

334 institutions

and 83 keywords.The author who published the most (62 theses) was Liu Hongbin

from Lanzhou general hospital of Lanzhou military region;Han Xiaopeng

from Lanzhou general hospital of Lanzhou military region

was the author who posted the second most (40 theses).Lanzhou general hospital of Lanzhou military region was the insititution who published the most (56 theses).Analysis of the keywords showed that laparoscopic surgery and advanced period gastric cancer has always been a hot spot in this field. Conclusion The Cite Space measurement analysis showed that laparoscopic treatment of gastric cancer and treatment of advanced gastric cancer were the focus of this field in recent years.