Abstract: The rural area is the important component of human settlements, and the rural landscape is a hybrid landscape system with multiple values. The policies of Beautiful Village and Rural Revitalization put forward higher requirements for the research and construction of rural landscape. Taking the Web of Science Core Collection database and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) as data sources, this research uses CiteSpace biblimetrics software to analyze the hot topics of domestic and foreign rural landscape researches from 2000 to 2020. The result shows that the hot topics of foreign rural landscape researches mainly include rural landscape ecosystem service, rural landscape evaluation, rural landscape management and conservation, rural landscape diversity, and the domestic research hotspots mainly include rural landscape planning and design, rural landscape policies, rural tourism landscape, rural landscape evaluation and protection. It focuses on the research background and driving factors of rural landscape at home and abroad, compares the differences in research perspectives, theories and methods, provides a basis for exploring the possible research directions of rural landscape in the future. It also puts forward that domestic rural landscape research should continue to stress three aspects: highlighting the multiple functions and values of rural landscape, enhancing the evaluation and protection mechanism, and improving the theoretical and methodological framework.