Abstract: Rational development and utilization of underground resources of mining subsidence research has important theoretical and practical significance.We retrieved the documents by IC of Web of Science of ISI.Download the literature of international mining subsidence research.This article use the spectral clustering algorithm of CiteSpace software system.Cluster analysis of the literature data cleaning process.Show the knowledge structure and the forefront of the evolution of the international mining subsidence.The field of study of the Spain's geological features of the basin of the Ebro River,Australia's southern coalfields,the salt rock mining of Bosnia and Herzegovina,as well as the Synthetic aperture radar,differential interferometry method,the shallow seam longwall mining,method of assessment of the use of geographic information systems and neural networks constitute the main structure of knowledge of the current international mining subsidence studies.This study has important implications on the field of China's mining subsidence.