Abstract: Analyses of status and trends, and hotspots of rice genomics in the world were performed for providing information to rice researchers and decision makers. Based on Science Web database and bibliometrics, top 10 countries, research institutions, authors, journals, disciplines and highly cited articles were analyzed, and SATI were employed to construct the knowledge map. Results showed that, a total of 1537 published articles (1995-2014) from 68 countries were identified, and the number of the published articles showed a stable growth, especially in China. The United States, China, Japan, India and France were the top five countries depending on the number of published papers, among which, the United States, China, Japan also ranked in the world’s top 3 on the basis of total citations. Those research institutes, including Chinese Academy of Science, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, University of California (Davis), Cornell University, Huazhong Agricultural University, were main research institutes that featured highly published number and total citations in the research of rice genomics around the world. Results of core authors showed that, there were more core authors in the United States, China, and Japan. From highly cited articles, the United States had 8 articles, and China had 1 article. Therefore, the results proved that the United States, Japan, and China had taken obviously advantages in the research field of rice genomics. The current hotspots in rice genomics was functional genomics and comparative genomics.