Abstract:
In the humanities and social sciences, religions and ethnicities are often included in the same research category, and the
interaction between the two has become a common concern of Chinese and foreign academic circles. In the past 20 years, i.e. from 1999
to 2018, Chinese and English core journals have published more than 2 000 papers in this field. Faced with a large amount of literature
over a large time span, applying visualization tools to present relevant research in a panoramic manner is one of the feasible review
methods. In order to understand the current situation of the interaction between religious identity and ethnic identity at home and
abroad, and to sort out the history, development context and frontier hotspots of research, this paper uses Citespace to analyze and
visualize various indicators in the citation space of all important journal articles in the past 20 years. Relevant data are obtained and
analyzed, which reveals the general status of the research field.

Key words: religious identity, ethnic Identity, interaction, Citespace