Abstract: Electrokinetic soil remediation(EKSR) is an emerging soil remediation technology.In this study, we took the 1972-2017 EKSR SCI literature as an analysis object and described the EKSR research history of the past 45 years by quantitative statistics and text mining.According to the collation and analysis of the keywords, we found that the research on EKSR mainly focused on three aspects: electric repair mechanism, joint repair technology and field application.The main targets were heavy metals, organic pollutants, salt and other ions and composite pollutants, etc.The development of convenient and efficient electric repair field application technology would be one of the research priorities in the future; the combination of electric repair technology and other repair technologies, joint repair would become a hot spot in electric repair research.