The digital transformation of education should be continuously promoted to guarantee its sustainable development. Extensive research has been conducted in this field but has not comprehensively addressed Chinese education digitalization. To fill this research gap, discover the gaps between Chinese and international research on the digitization of education and provide well-founded, innovative ideas for future research, we perform a bibliometric analysis of knowledge mapping in Chinese education digitalization.
The literature on Chinese education digitalization research from 2012 to 2022 was collected using the WOS and CNKI databases. To create a knowledge map of this research, CiteSpace was employed. This involved conducting co-occurrence analysis of core authors, issuing institutions, and regions, as well as cluster analysis and burst terms analysis of keywords. Additionally, a thorough manual study of the literature was conducted.