Objective To understand the research status and trend of value co-creation in China’s medical service field, so as to provide reference for the application research of value co-creation in China’s medical service field. Methods China National Knowledge Infrastructure was searched literature about the value co-creation in China’s medical service field retrieved from January 1, 2013 to December 1, 2021. CiteSpace V software is used to draw the keyword co-occurrence map, cluster analysis and timeline view, and analyze the overall process and evolution of literature publication interannual change, journal and discipline distribution, organization and author distribution, literature citation and so on. Results A total of 40 literatures were included, including 30 journals and 10 dissertations. The number of documents on value co-creation research in China’s medical service field showed an increasing trend year by year. The top journals in terms of published papers include Journal of Management Science, Chinese Hospital Management, Journal of Management Case Studies. Southern Medical University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Tianjin University ranked among the institutions with a large number of documents. The top three authors in the number of published articles were Mai Shumin, Chen Huifang and Wei Qinggang. The relevant literature mainly comes from medicine and health, economy and management science. The research mainly focuses on many hot spots, such as service leading logic, internet medical care, service innovation, patient participation, doctor-patient relationship and so on. Conclusions The hot-spot research trend of value co-creation in the field of medical services in China is prominent, but the overall number of research is insufficient, the theoretical system of value co-creation is fragmented, and the core author group has not been formed yet. In the future, China needs to speed up the value co-creation theory and application research in the field of medical services, and realize the specific and systematic research transformation.