Taken literature in the field of pharmacovigilance risk management from 2002 to 2021 in the Web of Science Core Collection database as sample data, used Excel and Cite Space software to conduct bibliometric analysis on research trends, literature sources, research subjects and research hot spots of relevant literature, and to construct the knowledge map in the field of international pharmacovigilance risk management. Study shows that the field of international pharmacovigilance risk management presents obvious phase increasing characteristics overall. The research institutions are divided into four cooperative groups: the United States, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. There are three models of groups with close cooperative relationships: university-university, university-medical institution, and government agency-medical institution, and the cooperative relationship among institutions has been gradually strengthened. Research hot spots are focused on adverse drug reactions, signal detection, pharmacoepidemiology, etc. Drawing on the international research results, the development of pharmacovigilance risk management in China can be enlightened from their research subjects and research hot spots.