Volume 30, Issue 1, 2021
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.2033
The Employability of Chinese University’s Graduates in the Knowledge Economy: Evidence from the Bibliometric Analysis and Review from 2011 to 2020
Abstract
Employability of graduates from higher education institutions matters not only to the career success of the individuals, but also to the growth of economies and the stability of all countries. This paper applies the bibliometric analysis and identifies the knowledge structure, main researchers, research themes, productive countries or territories, collaborating institutions, academic journals, and emerging topics of the employability of graduates. Therefore, this study is conducted by making co-authorship, co-citation and keywords co-occurrence analysis of the retrieved and pruned 1,171 references from Web of Science Core Collection during 2011-2020 with a topic research related to “employability†and “university graduatesâ€. By visualizing the data with VOSviewer, the results of this study shows that employability of college graduates is and will continue to be a research gap from the perspective of individuals, labour market and assessment, particularly in China who witnessed exponential market growth of publications in the related researches. Furthermore, transferring the graduate employability skills in the context of knowledge economy in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic calls for urgent attention from the academic field.
Keywords
employability, university graduates, VOSviewer, bibliometric analysis, visualization, market growth, higher education institutions.