Abstract:Development of Yangtze River Economic Zones has attracted academic interest ever since it has been the national economic strategy. We use the Citespace and Vosviewer sociometric tools to analyze the 1308 core journal papers themed by Yangtze River Economic Zones from 1992 to 2019 with the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)database. The bibliometric analysis includes journal source, author network, institution cluster, keywords cluster, burst words analysis, the results imply there are 12 clusters from the beginning period which are western development, opening up and development, coordinated development, economic growth, belt and road coordination, exploratory spatial data analysis, new normal, linkage development, green development, Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy and transportation system. With the burst terms examination, the evolution of related literatures is combed from four historic stages, finally some suggestions are proposed about future research of Yangtze River economic zones with the vision of innovative, coordinated, green, open and inclusive development.