Capsicum plants such as chili peppers not only have unique pungent flavor,but also have many pharmacological effects owing to their components such as capsaicinoids.In order to know the correct research progress and the main academic context in the field of pungent science,a total number of 13 389 papers from the Web of Science core databases were conducted as the data sources to analyze the global research on the pungent science from 2010 to 2020 by using the statistical analysis tools like VOSviewer software,CiteSpace software,MATLAB software and Origin software,with the help of bibliometrics methods,where the factors like the number of research papers,the influence of countries/ journals/ academic institutions/ authors,and the research hotspots were considered.The results showed that the pungent science study not only involves the traditional fields such as food science and pharmacology,but also includes the fields like plant science,neuroscience,toxicology,biochemistry and molecular biology,among which biochemistry and molecular biology,pharmacology and neuroscience are the main research hotspots in recent ten years.The United States has the largest number of papers published in the concerned field,followed by China and Japan.The annual number of papers published by Chinese scientists has increased rapidly,the proportion of Chinese scientists in the top 20 scientists in the field is quite high,and the overall H index of papers published by Chinese scientists is large,but the number of citations per paper is some what lower than that of some countries like United States and Germany.The cooperation between academic institutions or scientists in different countries has become a norm,which mainly include the above-mentioned hot fields.In addition,the Keywords with the strongest jump intensity and the longest jump duration were explored through related analysis,along with the main jump Keywords in recent years.This paper would guide the scholars in the fields of food science,chemistry,pharmacology and molecular biology to fast grasp the research direction,development trend and hot spots of pungent science study,and also provide the theoretical basis for the strategic decision of the pungent industry.