Abstract: Based on the bibliometric method, using CNKI from 1992 to 2020 and WOS from 2002 to 2020, a total of 4931 documents, using CiteSpace software, have been used to review the overview of the ecological utilization of agricultural land from the perspectives of time and space distribution, and highly cited literatures, and then summarized the research hotspots and frontiers based on high-frequency keywords and newly emerging words. The research found that: (1) In terms of time distribution, the volume of domestic and foreign publications had fluctuated and increased as a whole; (2) In terms of spatial distribution, Europe and the United States were the main positions in this research field, and China also had an important position in the world, and institutions such as China Agricultural University; (3) In the published journals, domestic and foreign journals were relatively concentrated, foreign countries preferred environmental science and ecology, and domestic ones preferred economics; (4) In terms of research hotspots, there were mainly four hotspots: ecological agricultural operation and management model, agricultural practitioners’ willingness and behavior of agricultural land ecological utilization, system guarantee for agricultural land ecological utilization, and evaluation of agricultural land ecological utilization; (5) At the research frontier, in terms of agricultural practitioners, foreign countries havd paid attention to the influence of motivation and knowledge, and domestic attention to the influence of social capital, land transfer and land scale. While foreign countries in evaluation research had focused on food security, poverty and ecosystem services, and China had focused on cultivated land ecological security and cultivated land protection zones, and in terms of institutional guarantees, domestic attention was paid to ecological compensation, crop rotation and fallow, and policy tools. Finally, a research outlook on the ecological utilization of agricultural land was carried out.