The Research Focus and Trend Analysis of foreign faculties Based on Knowledge Map

Abstract

This paper retrieves several English literature of foreign faculties from the Web of Science , and uses CiteSpace software to analyze the key documents, core authors and popular topics in this research field. We find that the research field of foreign faculties has made great progress in recent years. Research focus in this research field include motivation of foreign faculties to work abroad, foreign faculties' job performance, job satisfaction, identity and cross-cultural adaptation, etc. The research trend is to analyse the recruitment and management policies of foreign faculties, the relationship between foreign faculties and students, and the influence of different cultural, institutional and organizational context on foreign faculties.