Abstract: With the help of the Citespace bibliometric tool, this study comprehensively and systematically analyzes the research on forest carbon sink measurement at home and abroad, compares its development and stages, summarizes the development rules and characteristics, and provides an outlook on the future development direction of forest carbon sink measurement, so as to provide reference for future research on forest carbon sink measurement and economic value accounting. The main conclusions are: ①China should continue to pay attention to and improve the estimation system and value accounting system of forest carbon sinks, and enrich the content of forest carbon sink measurement research. ②The estimation methods of forest carbon sinks at home and abroad are continuously optimised and improved, and China needs to accelerate the application and promotion of advanced methods such as machine learning algorithms and remote sensing technology in China, so as to promote the innovation of forest carbon sink measurement methods. ③Research on forest carbon sink measurement involves many disciplines, and it is necessary to accelerate the cross-fertilisation of methods from many disciplines. ④China needs to strengthen close cooperation with authors from different institutions in different countries to further promote the innovation and development of forest carbon sink measurement research.