Evolution,Hot Spots and Prospects of Child Welfare Research in China:A CiteSpace-based Visualization Analysis
Child welfare is an important part of the social security system,and the development of child welfare can provide valuable resources and inexhaustible motive force for the sustainable development of society.With the help of CiteSpace software,this paper sorts out the research progress and hot spots of 556 related documents in the field of child welfare retrieved by Peking University Chinese Core and CSSCI journals from 1992 to 2023.The research shows that at present,some influential scholars and institutions have appeared in the field of child welfare in China,and the number of related research is increasing year by year.The research on child welfare in China has roughly gone through three stages:the initial exploration period,the deepening development period,and the steady promotion period.The research hotspots in this field mainly focus on five thematic areas:the definition of child welfare,the division of responsibilities for child welfare,the concept of child welfare policy,child welfare legislation and child childcare services,and the research perspectives and contents gradually tend to be diversified and deep.In the future,researchers should continue to deepen the research on child welfare from different angles based on the existing achievements,so as to design a child welfare policy in line with China's national conditions.