Liquid-liquid extraction is a necessary unit operation used in the recovery of essential solutes like the extraction of DNA in the area of health, the recovery of benzene in industrial processes, and the reduction of contaminants from the water like pesticides in the environment care. With the goal to make studies that give a high contribution in any of the mentioned areas, it is necessary to analyze the trend of research in liquid-liquid extraction. To help researchers to accomplish that aim, it was completed a research development of liquid-liquid extraction from 2007 to 2017 using specialized software. This study assessed a total of 5477 publications related to liquid-liquid extraction which were used to evaluate the trends of publications outputs, primary language, countries, author, institutions, main journal, and keywords. The Republic of China, Spain, and the USA, were the top 3 most productive countries with 1664, 582, and 466 publications respectively. The most productive institution was the Chinese Academy of Sciences followed by Jilin University and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. The journals with the highest paper production were Chromatography A (11.0%) followed by Talanta (4.3%), and Journal of Separation Science (4.0%). The most keywords used were extraction, and liquid, followed by chromatography. The most productive authors were Hanqi Zhang from Jilin University with 59 publications, followed by Ji Chen from the Chinese Academy of Sciences with 43 papers. 3516 Luis Obregon Quiñones et al.