Stable isotopes in precipitation can reveal different sources as well as seasonal transition of water vapor. Studying the relationship between the stable isotope in precipitation and different meteorological factors can provide important background data for regional water resource management and ecological restoration of vegetation. To elucidate the development of stable isotope in precipitation in modern times, this study based on bibliometrics, network analysis, and Citespace software performed the visualization analysis of the literature data collected from Web of Science during 1990 and 2017. It was found that the number of literatures about stable isotope in precipitation is increasing year by year, mainly focused on subjects, such as geology, meteorology and atmospheric sciences, oceanography, limnology, and paleontology. The research strength mainly concentrates in USA, China and Germany, and other research institutions showing a strong scientific research strength, such as Chinese Academy of Sciences, the United States Geological Survey, and so on. The Citespace software was used to draw a map of the co-cited literature, co-authors, research area, and influence of core authors. The result shows that the researchers Yao T, Risi C, and Tian L have played important roles in promoting the study of stable isotopes in precipitation since 2007. The keywords, such as leaf water, Tibetan Plateau, cellulose, environmental change, tree ring, atmospheric circulation, groundwater recharge, and hydrograph separation will soon become the novel research topics. In recent years, although the number of articles has been increasing year by year, the number of core authors and their representatives is relatively small. Furthermore, it is not sufficient to combine theory with application in our society; this problem would require our immediate and constant attention in the future.