Soil heavy metal pollution has always been the hotspot and frontier of environmental science. In order to understand the key topics and frontier dynamics of international and domestic research on soil heavy metal pollution, we collect the data from Web of Science and CNKI. Dividing the domestic and international research perspectives by CiteSpace which is a platform designed for clustering analysis. Focused on the authors, the research hotspots, the status quo and hotspots of the research field, and then constructed the research hotspot framework. The results showed that the research trend in soil heavy metals is internationalization. Interestingly, the most core research institutions and scholars are in China, and most of the correlation studies are focused on source/distribution, pollution evaluation, and restoration. Moreover, those studies could be assigned to Ecological environment science, Agriculture, Engineering, Chemistry, Geology, Toxicology and Botany. Furthermore, the study of soil heavy metals will be still in the trend of internationalization, multidisciplinary integration and multi-technology synergetic development in the future.