In order to understand the development status of archery research in China, the paper summarizes the direction of archery research and clarifies the research hotspots and evolution path. Based on the citespace perspective, it makes a visual analysis of the knowledge map of the archery literature included in the CSSCI database since 1998. The result shows that the articles of Chinese archery research that have been published are on the rise. At present, only a simple authors' cooperation network as been formed, and only a few authors have cooperative relations. Most of the researches are based on colleges and universities, and there is no basic cooperation network. The research hotspots focus on sport history, sport culture, archery & competitive sports, bow and arrow system, etc. The inheritance and protection of the traditional art of archery is the frontier of the present research. Based on the history of sports, the paper studies the archery development of the different dynasties and different nations of China. |