This paper takes 440 journals included in CNKI as the research object to explore the hot spots,evolution and trends of vocational education based on citespace software and bibliometric methods.The study shows that the recent research in this field have mainly focused on the macro research,object research,subject research and evaluation system which present two obvious trends.One is that the value orientation of vocational education evaluation is transformed towards high-quality development while the other one is that the technical means are promoted to digital transformation.In the future,the collaboration among institutions should be strengthened,the application of new technology on value-added evaluation becomes widespread and the evaluation on professional groups ought to be emphasized.