Abstract: Using the literature quantitative methods, choosing the related database of China's total resource base of knowledge in CNKI (National Knowledge Infrastructure) as the original resource and the papers about Knowledge sharing in virtual community from 2001 to 2010 as the basic data, this paper makes analysis in several aspects: literature growth and distribution, author distribution, research hotspots and so on, intending to outline a framework of this theme. We hope to provide certain reference and guidance on the indepth study of Knowledge sharing in virtual community.

Key words: Virtual community, Knowledge sharing, Literatures growth and distribution, Word frequency analysis