Abstract:

By Nov. 27,2013, 5 influential journals of foreign literature in CSSCI has recorded 2473 academic papers on foreign literature from 2008 to 2012. This paper, by means of statistics and information visualization, draws knowledge maps of the 2473 papers. Based on the description and analysis of these maps, it identifies the research foci and frontiers revealing the dynamic trends, the important cited documents and their influences, key research institutions and their cooperative researches, and the important cited journals and publishers in the recent 5 years.

Key words: Knowledge map, Foreign literature, Visualization, CiteSpaceⅢ, CSSCIREC