Groundwater has been recognized as one of the most critical and vulnerable natural sources which is utilized in potable water supply, agricultural irrigation, and industrial manufacture worldwide. In past decades, groundwater issues have drawn more and more attention and enable groundwater contamination and remediation research achieve dramatic development. This study depicted the spatialtemporal evolution of groundwater contamination and remediation research by evaluating related literatures published from 1989 to 2017 based on databases of