The research documents on teaching ability of higher vocational teachers in China from 2012 to 2021,which are collected in CNKI as the research objects of this paper,have mapped the knowledge graph in terms of literature time distribution,core authors,institutions,keyword co-occurrence and clustering,and keyword emergence by means of CiteSpace software so as to analyze the overall research on teaching ability of higher vocational teachers in China in the past decade.The results show that(1)the research on higher vocational teachers'teaching ability has gone through three stages:stable developm...