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Objective To analyze the research hotspots and future trend of nursing safety. Methods Biclustering analysis was adopted to analyze the nursing safety literature in PubMed and Wanfang databases from 2012 to 2016 through the bibliographic contribution system BICOMB and graph clustering toolkit gCLUTO 1.0. Results Domestic nursing safety research fronts from 2012 to 2016 focused on adverse events,quality care services, quality evaluation indicators, work errors and safety culture. On the other hand,overseas nursing safety researches focused on system analysis, nursing quality sensitive indicators, teamwork and nursing safety, and the impacts of nursing work environment on quality and safety. Conclusions Comprehensive means of multi-disciplinary teamwork can be called into play for in-depth study of deloping adverse events assessment tools, establishing a unified nursing sensitive indicator system and continuous improvement. The future research trends are establishing a national standardized nursing adverse events reporting system, using information technology to build a big data platform for information sharing and exploring nursing safety from the security environment and organization management.