Abstract: Abstract: In the academic circles, the most influential scholars and institutions play a vital role in the development of a discipline. The identification of these representative scholars and institutions therefore help us understand the pattern and developmental trajectories of this discipline. This paper investigates the most influential representative scholars and institutions, identifies the hot issues during 1980-2014 and summarizes the research trends of economic geography. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analyses, we find: (1) the representative scholars and institutions economic geography during the last three decades mainly come from Britain, the United States and a few European developed countries; (2) the influence of Asian economic geography is not yet outstanding——there are only 4 most influential Asian scholars among the 59 economic geography scholars identified in this paper; (3) studies on evolutionary economic geography, regional resilience, global production network and development of developing economies have attracted much scholarly attention in the recent years. It suggests that the current global economic geography is still dominated by the developed European countries but the rise of the Asian economies may be able to break the deadlock of monopoly.