According to the International Society for Equitation Science, equitation science can be defined as a field of study which “promotes an objective, evidence-based understanding of the welfare of horses during training and competition by applying valid, quantitative scientific methods that can identify what training techniques are ineffective or may result in equine suffering.” While this is a relatively small field of study which includes researchers from a variety of disciplines, it has grown steadily over the past several decades into a significant body of peer-reviewed original research articles ripe for analysis. I was interested to examine overall trends in the field, what specific topics have already been researched, and what collaborations were taking place amongst the researchers. I envision this project as a two-part study using bibliometric methods to analyze the peer-reviewed equitation science literature. This first part focuses on both publication-related and citation-related metrics, as well as some citation analysis, to pinpoint overall trends and performance. I am still in the process of analyzing the data, but initial findings indicate that articles are most often published in veterinary journals and that the most prolific researchers in the field are in Australia. In future, part two will employ further methods such as co-word and co-author analysis, as well as some type of network analysis, to further explore relationships in this field.