Current Status, Hotspots, and Trends of "Artificial Intelligence + Education" Research in China

The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology is profoundly leading education towards an intelligent direction. This article takes the literature related to "Artificial Intelligence + Education" published in the core journals of CSSCI from 2013 to 2024 as the research object, and uses the CiteSpace tool for visualization analysis. It combs and discusses the current status of domestic research in this field from aspects such as publication status, authors, institutions, and keyword co-occurrence and burst words, analyzes research hotspots, and predicts research trends. The results show that: in the past decade, the number of publications in this field in China can be divided into three stages: preliminary exploration, rapid development, and steady growth; some high-productivity authors have gradually formed a core group of authors, showing an overall development trend of multi-author cooperation and multi-unit collaboration; the types of publishing institutions are mainly normal colleges and departments of colleges and universities, with relatively low participation of enterprises and government institutions; research hotspots focus on three aspects: educational reform, categories of education, and educational technology, revealing the active exploration of the education field for intelligent technology; with the transformation of education and the development of technology, the combination of artificial intelligence and digital economy, new requirements for citizens' core literacy, and new challenges for teachers' professional literacy and educational models have become hot topics in current artificial intelligence research.