​Evolution of University Governance Research:Dual-Driven by Policy and Technology Empowerment -A Quantitative Study Based on CiteSpace Knowledge Graph Software

Evolution of University Governance Research:Dual-Driven by Policy

and Technology Empowerment

-A Quantitative Study Based on CiteSpace Knowledge Graph

Software

WANG Jin^l,ZUO Yongmei²

[Abstract]This study utilizes CiteSpace software to conduct a quantitative visualization analysis of 995 corejournal articles on university governance in China, indexed in the CNKI datahase from 2010 to 2025. Drawingon publication trends, policy documents, and practical cases, the paper systematically reveals the evolutionarytrajectory, core themes, and frontier trends of university governance research in China. The findings indicatethat the research has progressed through three stages institutional construction, capacity deepening, and inno-vative expansion exhibiting a pronounced responsiveness to national strategies, with a positive correlation be-tween policy intensity and research concentration. Currently, two major research orientations have emerged: theoptimization of traditional govemance and the breakthrough of digital governance. Key cross-cuting frontiers in-clude the application of digital technologies, differentiated (category-based) governance, and ethical regulation.The study also identifies limitations such as a low proportion of quantitative methods, weak interdisciplinarycollaboration, and a scareity of case studies from central and western China. Future efforts should focus on re-fining differentiated governance mechanisms, establishing intendisciplinary research funds, and developing ethicalframeworks for digital governance, so as to provide academic support and practical pathways for the moderniza-tion of educational governance.

[Keywords]University governance;CiteSpace;Governance modernization

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