Based on CiteSpace5.0 software, and taking 293 papers with their title containing “Employee Innovation Behavior” from CNKI (2007—2017) as data sources, the paper conducts a visualized analysis of the employee innovation behavior in China from 2007 to 2017, including the annual publication volume, the research institutions, literature source, representative scholars and research hotspots. The research results show that: From 2007 to 2010, the number of articlespublished on employee innovation behavior research is small but gradually increasing, and it increases rapidly from 2010 to 2017; among the top 20 research institutions in the publication volume, 19 are sponsored by universities; those with more than five articles published are mainly journals of economic management; the research focus is mainly on the subject of employee innovation behavior, as well as the analysis of the premise variables of employee innovation behavior such as personal characteristics, leadership, organizational culture and atmosphere. The future research direction is to develop an employee innovation behavior scale suitable for China’s situation, and explore the relationship between different innovation subjects and the outcome variables of employee innovation behavior from a holistic perspective.