Abstract: With the rise of positive psychology, gratitude research has gradually developed in the fields of psychology and management. Gratitude has a certain positive impact on individuals and organizations, but it has not attracted enough attention in the field of organization management, and the relevant researches are too scattered to form a systematic overall research framework. Based on gratitude literature in the Web of Science Core Collection and Chinese Journal Full-text database, utilizing bibliometric analysis and knowledge mapping technology, and combining with intensive reading and review, this paper analyzes domestic and foreign researches on gratitude in the field of organization management from 1999 to 2021. This paper focuses on the analysis of the publication status, the distribution of the most academically prolific countries, the distribution of the most prolific journals, the most prolific scholars and hot keywords at home and abroad via descriptive results, and reveals the whole relationship between them. Then, we construct co-occurrence and co-citation network maps of domestic and foreign researches on gratitude, systematically sort out the research origin, research findings, research hotspots, research structure, research development and evolution trend, analyze and identify the limitations of existing researches, and discuss the potential direction for future researches.

Key words: gratitude research, bibliometric analysis, knowledge mapping, research prospect