In order to solve the hazards in the process of coal mine safety production and understand the development trend in the field of coal mine safety assessment, the relevant literature in the field of "coal mine" and "safety assessment" collected by CNKI from 1998 to 2018 was analyzed by using the software of cite space v. The results show that the research in this field mainly focuses on the university institutions with more prominent contributions in the security field, and the cooperation between authors is mainly based on small-scale teamwork;Safety evaluation, indicator system, risk assessment and evaluation model are some of the key aspects of future research in this field;The coal mine safety risk caused by the unsafe behavior of miners caused by human factors is a hot spot in the field in the future.