Biographical Data : A Bibliometrics Study and Visualization Analysis via CiteSpace

Abstract

Abstract Biographical data, a measure of individual tendency to future behavior based on their past life experiences, was often used in the fields of human resources and psychology, and had been expanding to other fields in recent years. A large number of literature on biographical data had been published internationally in the past decades. 464 literature was retrieved from the database of Web of Science core from 1951 to 2022 as the main, quantitatively visualized and analyzed the characteristics of literature, research hotspots, research process in this research field, pointed out the current problems to be solved with the help of CiteSpace. The study found that: Fluctuating upward trend in annual publication of biographical data literature, the authors, the regional scale of cooperation network had been initially formed, the overall view of Europe and the United States to pay more attention to the exploration of biographical data. The study of biographical data dimensions had always been a research hotspot. At present, biographical data still had problems such as information falsification, personal privacy leakage, quantification difficulties. Countries should strengthen academic cooperation to improve the current problems and promote the innovative development of biographical data in the future.