Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】In the process of smart community construction,information technology is an important driving force
to promote the construction and governance of smart community,and also an important driving force to improve the modernization of so-cial governance capacity.Smart community informatization is the combination of information technology and community governance.It is the extension and innovation of information technology in the field of community construction【. Method/process】This paper takes the informatization of smart communities as the research object, adopts the bibliometric analysis method, and with the help of software CiteSpace5.7.R1,takes 288 articles from 2011 to 2021 in CNKI database as samples,and makes a visual analysis of the research on the informatization of smart communities in China from the theme distribution,the annual distribution of literature and the main research force.Through the co-occurrence and high-frequency statistical analysis of keywords,the clustering analysis of keywords hotspots and the evolution trend analysis,the research hotspots and future development trends are obtained【. Result/conclusion】Research shows that the informatization construction of smart communities is a hot topic in current research.The combination of smart community and smart city construction,the technical preference of smart community construction,the solution of smart community development problems and the development of‘wisdom+’informatization in various fields have become important development trends【. Innovation/limitation】How-ever,since the data source of this paper is only the articles included in CNKI,the data cannot be extremely extensive.