Abstract: To compare the research status, hotspots and trend of the global and the domestic resistant transgenic rice, the visual analysis method was used in this study. The literatures on resistant transgenic rice from 2001 to 2015 from Web of Science core database and CNKI were used as samples, and the map of scientific knowledge was studied with the visual analysis by CiteSpaceⅢ. In terms of the author collaboration, the cooperation of domestic prolific authors is dispersal, such as the independent author Qian Qian, Chen Liang. Only a small number of people formed a small-scale regional cooperation, such as Liu Yongsheng and Niu Xiangli. While in the global research, multiple author collaboration networks were formed with intensive and close links. Through comparative study of hot spots, the common focuses are technology itself and disease resistance and insect resistance, but China’s research tended to be diversified, including genes resistant to environmental stresses and herbicides. China should strengthen the cooperation between the core authors, speed up resources integration and sharing, and focus on the latest researches in the world, pay attention to international cooperation, and promote the rapid development of resistant transgenic rice.