Abstract: Industrial Design plays a key role in the innovation-driven development of “Made in China
2025”. Based on the bibliometrics method, this paper analyzes 1 484 articles included in Web of
ScienceTM with the theme of industrial design, by using science and technology text mining and
visualization software CiteSpace. Visualization maps for information such as organizations engaged
in industrial design research, research field and research hotpot are analyzed from four aspects: the
number of published papers, the cooperative network of scientific research institutions, the related
research fields and the key words. The results of analysis will provide a helpful reference for
domestic industrial design education, industrial design research and development.

Key words: industrial design, bibliometrics, CiteSpace, visualization map