Abstract:

Based on 905 digital reading research papers from 2001 to 2021 in Chinese Social

Sciences Citation Index（CSSCI）, this paper made a knowledge map with visual analysis tools

CiteSpace and VOSviewer to identify the core authors, research institutions, important journals and

knowledge sources of digital reading research in China; also summarized the hotspots of digital

reading research and their achievements which comprised mobile reading, online reading, e-book

reading, social reading, digital reading in related fields and so on. Some trends of digital reading

research are find out that the new form of digital reading products represented by audio books

have attracted more attention from researchers; based on the new generation of Internet, mobile

reading and social reading have become the new research directions; and the methods used in

digital reading research are more diverse. In the future, some deficiencies in current digital reading

research needs to be improved, like the insufficient of basic theoretical research and the lack of

research on mainstream people and other typical reading groups such as the elderly and dyslexia.

Key words:

Digital reading Mobile reading Social reading Digital publishing New media

CLC Number: 

• G239