Abstract: With the rise and development of strategic emerging industries, the important position of rare earth as a strategic resource continues to be highlighted.Rare earth is supplied as a public product, and the export of rare earth has attracted much attention at home and abroad.The article uses CiteSpace software and is based on literature measurement and knowledge graph analysis methods, and uses CNKI literature as the data source.The article analyzes the literatures related to rare earth export research from 1993 to 2019 in terms of the volume of articles, author groups, publishing organizations, keywords, emergent words, and timeline, to discuss the evolution trends and development hotspots of domestic rare earth export research.The results show that in recent years, the literature in the field of rare earth exports has shown an overall upward trend, but literature publication has obvious volatility and policy relevance.The authors group and the publishing organization are mainly concentrated in universities with areas with scientific research advantages or resource advantages, and the degree of cooperation between the research teams is low.Rare earth industry, export control, export quotas, export pricing, export policies, etc.have become key words and high-frequency words in the literature.The future research directions in the field of rare earth exports mainly focus on four aspects:export pricing, sustainable development, local rare earth industry chain development and export capital mergers and acquisitions.