Abstract
The purpose of this study is to present the research groups and relationships of subject literature in virtual community, and to explore the hot spots and frontiers of research topics. CiteSpace visual analysis software was used to analyze the institutions, scholars and keywords of 1,558 documents. The research found that: (1) The development of this research can be divided into the initial period (2000-2005), the rapid development period (2006-2011), the fluctuating growth period (2012-2017) and the stable period (2018-2017). (2) Most of the articles with high publication volume are information journals, while most of the cited articles are management journals; (3) Research institutions and scholars are concentrated in the central and eastern cities, and the cooperation between institutions has regional characteristics, and the cooperation among scholars is mainly based on the relationship between colleagues and teachers and students; (4) The current hot research topics are online healthy community and virtual academic community; (5) The research methods and research fields need to be further explored.
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