Grazing is an important way to use and manage grassland, which has significant effects on grassland ecosystem structure, function, and biodiversity. As the essential component of the grassland ecosystem, soil fauna is significantly affected by grazing due to their special ecological traits. However, there are few papers reported how grazing affected the soil fauna. According to the bibliometric analysis, the United States published the most papers on the effects of grazing on soil fauna (18.36%), followed by China (16.39%), and New Zealand took the third place with 12.14%. The number of papers has experienced three stages in China and foreign countries: the initial development stage from 1999 to 2006, the steady development stage from 2007 to 2013, and the rapid development stage from 2014 to now. The citation rate of papers increased year by year, reaching the highest with 3813 citations in 2021. This phenomenon indicated that the research on the effects of grazing on soil fauna became more and more important. It is concluded that the study on the effects of grazing on soil fauna mainly focused on aboveground and belowground dwelling soil fauna, including both direct and indirect action pathways. Comprehensive analysis showed that previous studies mostly focused on the effects of grazing on soil fauna, ignoring the effects pathways of grazing on soil fauna. According to the distribution characteristics of grassland resources and the effects of grazing on soil fauna in China, the focus of future research in this field was put forward in order to provide new ideas for future research on grazing effects on soil fauna in grassland ecosystems.