The Current Situation, Hot Spots and Trends Analysis of STEM Education Research in China Based on Internet and Artificial Intelligence

The rapid development of technologies such as the Internet, 5G technology, and artificial intelligence has not only changed the form of education, but also made the advantages of STEM education, which aims to cultivate innovation and problem-solving abilities, increasingly apparent. Through the literature published in core journals in the field of STEM education in China, we can glimpse the current research status, research issues, and development trends in the field of STEM education in China. This not only has great significance for the development of STEM education research in China, but also provides some supplementary research data for international STEM education. The bibliometric method was used to analyze the overall trend, high-frequency word distribution, and clustering of the literature from 2012 to 2025 in the CNKI database of Peking University core and CSSCI journals as data sources, and to construct a knowledge map with the visualization advantage of CiteSpace tool to examine the current situation, hot topics and development trend of STEM education research in China. The results show that, based on the Internet and artificial intelligence, the number of STEM education research in China has been steadily increasing in general, and the hot topics cover three aspects: STEM education philosophy and education policy, STEM curriculum design and STEM literacy, and the emerging research frontiers cover curriculum design, but the cooperation network of research scholars and research institutions is scattered and the depth of research needs to be strengthened.