Visualization Analysis Of Research On Vocational Education In China Based On Mapping Knowledge Domains

In recent years,Chinese vocational education has achieved great-leap-forward development.It is Necessary and meaningful to study the current situation of Vocational Education in our country,and to explore its core research institutions,scholars and research hotspots.The knowledge mapping method based on scientometrics provides an effective way to solve it.In this research,the data resource is from the Core Journals and CSSCI source journals in the "Chinese Academic Journal(online edition)" of CNKI,which have higher quality.This study used Bicomb2.0,Citespace5.0 and SPSS20.0 as research tools,taking word frequency analysis,Co-word analysis,cluster analysis and Multi Dimensional Scaling of document analysis methods in Bibliometrics as main research methods.The analysis objects is the literature of Vocational Education Research from 1999 to 2015.Years,extracted the reseach institutions author,journal sources and keywords from the literature during the year of 1999-2003 called Reform and Innovation period,2004-2008 called Rapid Development period,2009-2015 called Steady Development period.Then it probed into the present situation and showed the hotpots,research frontier and dynamic trends.Finally,we draw the propriate conclusions,summarized the innovation and the exsiting deficiencies of research,provided the basis for future development of Vocational Education Research.The main conclusions of this study are:(1)The number of research literatures on Vocational Education in China has experienced the period of Reform and Innovation,Rapid Development,and Steady Development from 1999 to 2015.(2)Scientific research institutions and scholars are to cooperate with each other,becoming more and more close collaboration network.(3)Foreign vocational education research has become a hot research topic in recent years.(4)The research of Vocational Education in our country has gradually shifted to the goal of highly skilled talents.(5)The research of modern vocational education system has become a new hotpot.(6)Compared with the overall level of vocational education,the paper is not suitable for the research of the periodical level and vocational education.(7)The development of vocational education has a significant role in promoting the research of vocational education.