Abstract: By making use of the software CiteSpace of bibliographic measurement and with the methods of co-word clustering and time zone transition, this paper conducts a bibliometric analysis and draws the knowledge map of 484 CSSCI papers in the past 10 years after 2006. It tries to analyze the current situation, hot points and new research directions of the unconventional monetary policy researches in China, so as to explore the trend and characteristics of the development of the unconventional monetary policy researches in China. The results indicate that the researches related to the subject of the unconventional monetary policy in China have been increasing sharply since 2008, and it has become a hot topic in the academic circle. The clustering of hot words are concentrated in the nine categories, such as “the international monetary system”, “Abe economics”, “inflation”, “depreciation of US dollar”, “unconventional monetary policy” and “the debt crisis”, covering most areas of domestic researches on unconventional monetary policy. The issues such as “quantitative easing”, “spillover effect” and “credit easing” have received more attention. While such terms as “financial crisis”, “RMB appreciation” and “exchange rate pass-through” are the relatively new research directions.

Key words: unconventional monetary policy; bibliometric analysis; CiteSpace; clustering analysis