Study on Undergraduate Research in Chinese Higher Education Based on Content and Co-word Analysis

Abstract

Undergraduate research has become an attracting topic in higher education in past few decades. To give a comprehensive picture of this field in Chinese higher education, the content analysis and co-word analysis were employed to analyze the relevant literature indexed by the Chinese Social Science Citation Index. The distribution characteristics of paper quantity, published journals, research institutions and research type were revealed. The co-word analysis was used to analyze the research topics. Combining the results of abstract and keywords, this paper explore the research themes. Given the results of analysis, this paper also suggests directions for further work.