Objective To systematically analyze the status quo of nursing humanistic caring evaluation research in China, and to provide references for future research in this field. Methods China national knowledge infrastructure （CNKI）,Wangfang database and Taiwan Scholar Journal Database（TWS） were searched from their inception to December 31th, 2017 to retrieve publications on humanistic caring evaluation written by nurses from hospitals across China.Then the included literature was subjected to bibliometrics analysis method. Results A total of 799 papers were retrieved,among which,739 were journal articles, and 242 were published by core journals.The first article was published in 1998, and thereafter the number of publications was sloping upwards and reached a maximum in 2016, standing at 118 papers. Maximal number of publications were contributed by Dr.Yilan Liu, if sorted by authors, or by Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong Univesity of Science and Technology, if sorted by institutions, or by Guangdong province and Eastern China, if sorted by regions.Totally,125 papers were supported by funds; the mean citation frequency of all the publications was 6.36. As for study design, 597 publications were of interventional study nature, and 202 were of survey study nature.A sum of 28 evaluation tools with credible reliability and validity were deve-loped, and 8 of them were used more than 5 times. Conclusion Scholars have explored many aspects of nursing humanistic caring evaluation in hospital settings in China.The level of one-sided eveluation is similar with foreign studies, but effect evaluation of nursing humanistic caring practice is in need of further studies.