Abstract: Based on 1 080 CSSCI journal articles in CNKI database involving ideological and political education for college students since 2016, this paper, adopting the methods of social network, multidimensional scale, word frequency statistics, etc., finds that the researches have clarified focus, diversified content, multi-model, and innovative methods together with the characteristics of being loose and sporadic in content. Among the huge team of researchers in the field of ideological and political education for college students, some scholars need to make more contributions. Under the guidance of national policies to construct a smoothing communication platform for scholars in this field, it is to strengthen the systematic construction of ideological and political education research for college students, and gradually organize a stable academic team for an iterative progress and a connotative development.

Key words: college students, ideological and political education, hot issues, empirical study, journal researching