Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】Since its birth,information science has been closely related to national security.Under the back?
ground of the overall national security concept,information science in China is bound to face a new round of transformation and devel?
opment.Analyzing the historical context of the evolution of information science researchin China from the perspective of national secu?
rity concept has important guiding significance for the development of information science.【Method/process】At first,this paper sum?
marizes the characteristics of national security concept each period in 1978-2020 inChina.Furthermore,it takes the academic litera?
ture of nine Chinese core journals of information science in each period as the analysis object,and takes national security concept
inChina as the starting point to carry out bibliometric analysis,content analysis and visualization analysis from the dimensions of re?
search institutions,research methods and hot topics.【Result/conclusion】By matching the characteristics of information science re?
search and the characteristics of national security concept in each period,this paper finds that information science research in China
has always been focused on the needs of the country and the people,closely following the needs of the national security concept in vari? ous periods,and committed to giving full play to the role of intelligence as "the eyes and ears,the vanguard and the adviser",which pro? vides reference for national security concept leads the development of information science in our country.【Innovation/limitation】This paper is a macroscopic analysis of information science research from the perspective of national security in China,but it needs to be fur? ther analyzed at the micro level.