Abstract: Doing-business environment (DBE for short) is an important cornerstone of economic construction and regional development, and also is an important basis for enterprises to make decisions and plans. As a driving factor of economic development and enterprise operation, DBE is well worth a thorough academic research. In recent years, studies on DBE have attracted extensive attention from scholars. The paper uses CiteSpace5.3 software to conduct a research by means of bibliometric and visualization map. The study takes the academic journals published in Web of Science (WOS) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) from 2006 to 2020 as data sources. The state-of-the-art researches of DBE are summarized and analyzed from the perspectives of authors and their partnership, publications and their disciplines. On this basis, the paper focuses on the comparative analysis of research object, perspective and discipline in Chinese and English literature, as well as the dynamic evolution analysis of the research hotspots and the co-cited analysis of the research frontier, and finally the future research targets are pointed out. The research finds that both Chinese and English journal-papers have high interest in the study of DBE, but they have different focuses and perspectives. Most of the English literatures focus on the factors that influence enterprise strategy and enterprise performance from the perspective of enterprise management. Chinese literatures mostly pay more attentions to the government governance from the perspectives of national economic reform policies, regional coordinated development strategies, and improvement of government administrative efficiency, which not only shows the regional distribution characteristics with southeast and northeast regions as the leading edge, but also presents the time characteristics of the three stages. The research of the paper provides inspiration for researchers in the field of DBE to understand the development trend and explore the research hot-spots and frontier issues.

Key words: doing-business environment, bibliometrics, knowledge mapping, development trends, academic progress