ABSTRACT

As massification of higher education developed, employment challenges in changing labour markets aroused the attention of scholars globally. An interdisciplinary approach called world-system theory is applied by scholars from the social sciences, history, anthropology and cultural studies. This study applied the theory in a bibliometric analysis of graduate employment research using R and CiteSpace. It identified the main characteristics (e.g. authors and countries) of relevant research, investigated the social and economic context of certain milestone publications and visualised research hot spots. World-system theory, as a macrosociological approach to describing the world economy and social system, is innovatively applied in illustrating the findings of the current work. Results indicate that core countries not only are economically influential but also dominating the academic research. Scholars in semi-peripheral and peripheral countries are encouraged to establish transnational networks and foster academic collaborations.

摘要

随着高等教育大众化的发展，不断变化的劳动力市场中的就业挑战引起了全球学者的关注。社会科学、历史、人类学和文化研究的学者采用了一种称为世界体系理论的跨学科方法。本研究使用 R 和 CiteSpace 将该理论应用于毕业生就业研究的文献计量分析。它确定了相关研究的主要特征（例如作者和国家），调查了某些具有里程碑意义的出版物的社会和经济背景，并可视化了研究热点。世界体系理论作为描述世界经济和社会体系的宏观社会学方法，被创新地应用于说明当前工作的发现。结果表明，核心国家不仅在经济上具有影响力，而且在学术研究中占据主导地位。鼓励半外围和外围国家的学者建立跨国网络，促进学术合作。