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Objective:This study was conducted using scientometric methods and visualization technology to review the research status and demonstrate the hotspots, evolutionary paths, and frontiers of community nursing in stroke patients at home and abroad.Methods:This study employed the CiteSpace software to analyze the literature on community care for stroke patients published from January 1, 2012 to June 1, 2022 in the core databases of CNKI and Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) database.Results:A total of 1 535 articles were included in this study. The trend of CNKI publications numbers had been first increasing and then decreasing. The number of WOSCC publications had experienced an annual increase over the past 10 years, albeit with certain inverted S-shaped fluctuations. The hot topics at home and abroad could be summarized in three points: rehabilitation nursing for community stroke patients, social support for community stroke patients, and community aged care for stroke patients. Domestic research in this field had been continuously refined, and there had been a significant shift in the development of this field abroad from focusing on the disease itself and public health issues to evidence-based nursing practices. The new research frontiers mainly included experiments and guidelines.Conclusions:There are differences in the level of emphasis placed on community care for stroke in the academic community both domestically and internationally. Conducting clinical trials and developing relevant guidelines will be an international research frontier. Moreover, relevant papers might provide Chinese research theory and methodology.