Research Review and Hotspots Analysis of Vocational Education in China: Based on the Statistics of the Paper Output of the National Education Science Planning Project from 2015 to 2019

Funding text 1: The National Education Science Planning Project is currently the highest-level and most authoritative fund project of educational disciplines in China, it represents the direction of educational scientific research in a certain sense. Vocational and technical education (vocational education) is a subject category funded by National Education Science Planning Project, and the projects has always been paid attention and valued by vocational education researchers. For example, Li Jifeng et al. analyzed the hotspots and trends of vocational education in China based on the two major national education research funds [1]. Ma Yanlei and Liu Yang through the quantitative analysis of the Vocational Education Project from 2006 to 2018, perspective the historical evolution and trend prospects in vocational education research [2]. However, there are few literatures that discuss the status of vocational education research from the perspective of output. With China's support for vocational education in recent years, the number of projects has been steadily increased, and a large number of output with high academic value have been accumulated. Therefore, it is necessary to sort out and summarize the output of vocational education projects from 2015 to 2019, grasp the status of vocational education research in China, focus on hotspots and subject areas. Since there are many forms of project outputs, including papers, reports, works, etc., the main form is papers, the outcome discussed in this article mainly refer to journal papers.; Funding text 2: Key Project of Ministry of Education; Funding text 3: The research data comes from the CNKI database, the search method is "fund" = "project grant number", and the source category is academic journals. After excluding briefings, notices, and documents not related to vocational education, 981 documents were retrieved (The search date is October 30, 2020). The project grant number comes from the 2015-2019 vocational education project data published on the website of the National Education Science Planning Leading Group Office. The types of National Education Science Planning Project include National Major Project, National Key Project, National General Project, National Youth Project, Key Project of Ministry of Education and Youth Project of Ministry of Education.