In recent years, research on the functional aspects of mountainous ecosystem services under the influence of climate change and human activities has gradually become a focal point in the academic community. However, the cultural services of the mountain ecosystem have largely been overlooked. In this study, we employed bibliometrics and text mining methods to analyze over 1000 documents from the Web of Science database. We compared the research objectives and subjects of cultural landscapes and cultural services, revealing a strong alignment between the tangible and intangible aspects of cultural landscapes, significantly contributing to the assessment of cultural services in the mountain ecosystem. This alignment facilitates the longitudinal expansion of research into mountain cultural services and the lateral augmentation of the impact of mountain landscapes on human society and well-being. Furthermore, the study summarized that the most widely applicable research methods for mountain cultural services currently include participatory GIS mapping based on questionnaire surveys and the SolVES model. Overall, a closer connection between these two research areas will provide more scientific guidance for the study of cultural services of mountain ecosystems, especially providing new research content for evaluating the value of famous mountain scenic spots under the construction of China’s natural protection area system.