Rural Mutual Support Pension Research Hotspots and Trends: A Visual Analysis Based on CiteSpace

Based on 224 documents related to rural mutual support pension collected by the CNKI database from 2008 to 2024, this paper employs CiteSpace software to conduct a visual analysis of keyword clustering and bursts on the theme of "rural mutual support pension," and constructs knowledge maps. The research results indicate that research hotspots revolve around four themes: the conceptual definition and functional orientation of rural mutual support pension, supply and demand research on rural mutual support pension, development dilemmas and pathway mechanism research on rural mutual support pension, and rural mutual support pension model research. Research on rural mutual support pension in China has undergone three phases: the budding phase, the development phase, and the prosperity phase. With the advent of new social situations and contexts in rural areas, this paper predicts that future trends in rural mutual support pension research in China will focus on studies of multi-agent supply and influencing factors, digital empowerment of rural mutual support pension, and the evolution of rural mutual support pension towards rural mutual assistance communities.