The Bibliometric Analysis of Life-long Education Research from the Year 1995 to 2009 in China

After collecting the literatures of life-long education research published in core journals from the year 1995 to 2009,this article analyzes them by bibliometric method from the following six aspects: the years of publication,the journals' distribution,the authors,the research institutions,the fund literatures and the content.It gains a series of conclusions: the focus of life-long education research in our country has been shifted to the practice field,but is still lacking of research on legislative aspect;the literatures of life-long education have been published in various periodicals;the main research institutions are located in the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing and other developed areas,while the distribution of researchers is scattered,and has not yet formed the core team.