Abstract: In the past ten years, the number of biological education graduate students has been increasing. However, the socially recognized quality of postgraduate and the topic of dissertation closely related to the educational reform were not yet quantified. Based on bibliometrics, the scientific knowledge mapping and keywords, a statistical analysis and visualization was made. Results showed that the studies of senior high school were more; and so were the quantitative methods; hot topics were affected by the education reform and curriculum standard. This paper puts forward some suggestions that the topic of dissertation should pay more attention to the cultivation of all-round development of students and to the depth of quantitative research and combination with qualitative research, and learn to study education from the interdisciplinary point of view.

Key words: bibliometrics, biological education, master′s degree, dissertation, hot topic