【Objectives】 Fusarium wilt, caused by Fusarium oxysporum, is a kind of fungal disease highly destructive to crops. A review was prepared of advances and hot spots in the research on through citation analysis.【Method】In order to ensure that the review is objective and scientific, literature analysis was performed based on the data collected and retrieved by "Fusarium wilt" as the subject word from the core collection of the database of ISI Web of Science of the period of 1985 ~ 2019. A total of 4972 relevant papers were obtained finally by April 1, 2019. All the retrieved documents were downloaded in the format of "full record and quoted references" and "plain text", and renamed to download-fw.txt format, for easy recognition by CiteSpace for further analysis. Then, the CiteSpace visualization software was used for citation analysis by cooperation, co-occurrence, co-citation, research hotspot and frontier trend. 【Result】Statistical analysis of volume of the publications shows that the United States, China and India ranked the top three in this field. Analysis of betweenness central indicators shows that the Netherlands, the United States and India were the top three in importance of literature, while China was among the top 10s with a positive upward trend. Further analysis by institution shows that the United States Department of Agriculture, the University of Cordoba, the French National Agricultural Research Institute, the University of Utrecht, etc. were outstanding ones in this field; Domestic research institutions, represented by the Nanjing Agricultural University, actively carried out relevant researches and contributed a huge number of publications addressing the issue “Fusarium wilt is widely distributed and complex crop disease” in the fields of plant science, agronomy and agricultural economics.【Conclusion】 Further citation analysis shows that “induction”, “genetic diversity” and “pathogenicity” are important hot spots in the recent ten years, and literature co-citation clustering analysis shows that “Bacillus amyloliquefaciens”, “systemic resistance”, and “non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum” were the research frontiers in this field. With the research on Fusarium wilt going on in-depth, it is speculated that the future research will go on keeping focus on microbial control and prevention, breeding of disease resistant crop varieties, and interaction of root - pathogen - beneficial microbes and its mechanism, and moreover, the adoption of the multiple omics technology will sure help understand the pathogenesis of Fusarium wilt and provide a theoretical basis and technical support for fundamental studies on and prevention of Fusarium wilt.