Under the background of global environmental change and rapid urbanization, urban flooding, typhoon disasters, public health events and many other urban safety problems are emerging, and various uncertain risks have become important obstacles to urban safety and sustainable development, and how to better address this problem and achieve effective early warning is becoming a common concern of different interest groups. As a specific unit of risk management at the grassroots level, the community plays an indispensable role as the “last kilometer” in planning, construction and management, so the research on the interaction and coupling between resilience and the community has become an area of great concern. Incorporating the concept of resilience into community governance and development is not only necessary for the construction of the community itself, but also plays a fundamental role in enhancing the overall resilience level of cities from the bottom up.Taking 1 023 articles of the resilient community research from 1986-2022 in the core collection of Web of Science as the research subjects, this paper used CiteSpace bibliometric method to review and prosper the research on resilient community, specific methods including literature co-citation, keyword co-occurrence and burst word analysis. It was found that the current resilient community research has completed the structure of the basic theory and research system, but the research on the evaluation system is too concentrated, and there are fewer frontier branches. The following are some of the most important findings: 1) The boom in resilient communities research was formed in the past decade, and the related research field has become an important branch of research to help cities achieve sustainable development. 2) Countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Sweden have been influential in the field of resilient communities’ research and have played an important role in facilitating international collaboration. 3) The main knowledge groups of resilient community research include the origin of the concept of resilient community, the basic theoretical framework of resilient community, community resilience evaluation methods, community disaster risk identification and response mechanisms. 4) Research on resilient community is summarized into three core paths: research path of “basic theory of community resilience”, research path of “resilient community-community resilience evaluation-capacity improvement of community resilience”, and research path of “resilient community-evaluation of community disasters and risks-response model of community disaster”. 5) Research on dynamic measurement model of community resilience has become the current frontier of resilient community research, how to dynamically simulate the non-linear interaction between social and environmental systems has become a key technical issue in resilient community research and even resilient city research.The construction of resilient communities is a long-term and systematic project, which requires continuous improvement of the theoretical framework, evaluation methods and governance system. The study summarizes the insights andprospects from five aspects: building a theoretical framework with a multi-dimensional perspective, clarifying key influencing factors, exploring a dynamically coupled evaluation model, establishing a resilient community-planning paradigm, and proposing a full-cycle resilience action plan, with a view to providing guidance for deepening the relevant research.