From the perspective of scientific measurement, this paper makes an exploratory analysis of the research status and development trend in the field of offshore wind power. CNKI database is used as the data source to retrieve relevant literature in the field of offshore wind power during 2002-2022, and CiteSpace software is used to analyze the data and visualize the results. By mining and analyzing the number of published papers, institutional cooperation, authors' published papers and distribution of hot spots in the offshore wind power field in the data set, the development trend of the offshore wind power field is analyzed. The results show that the number of published papers in the offshore wind power field is on the rise. The research process can be divided into four stages: starting stage, scale utilization stage, industrialization development stage and commercialization stage. In terms of institutional cooperation, there is closer cooperation among institutions and more emphasis on intra-institutional cooperation. Research hotspots mainly focus on offshore wind power technology research, technology development, application basic research, engineering research and other aspects. Based on the analysis results of this paper, the future direction of offshore wind power field is put forward, which provides a certain reference for future offshore wind power research.