Abstract: Through a comprehensive and systematic study of early reading, and a detailed analysis of the research focus, it is conducive to understand the overall situation and development trend of early reading research.By using the method of bibliometrics and VOSviewer research tools,this paper makes a quantitative analysis on the number of papers, authors, institutions, keywords and other dimensions of 3 404 journals collected by CNKI from 2000 to 2019.From 2000 to 2019,China's early reading research has experienced a slow development to a rapid development stage. Domestic scholars' research on early reading is relatively scattered,without forming a large co authored network,but there are some small scientific research teams with relatively stable research topics. At present, the hot topics of early reading research include parent-child reading,picture book reading,early reading education,early reading in public library,ect.

Key words: early reading;visual analysis;knowledge map;research progress