This research uses BICOMB, UCINET and other bibliometric analysis software to extract keywords, statistically and visually analyze the 1463 articles of The Physics Teacher in the past five years, and obtains its research hotspots and directions in the past five years and obtains some enlightenment from it. Among them, the main research hotspots of physics teaching are teaching, physics teaching aids, educational evaluation, Newtonian mechanics, physics experiment, education policy and management, learning mode, electromagnetics, student development, physics history, kinematics, geometric optics, etc.
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