In this paper we aim to conduct teaching and research work on graduation design, to comb relevant published literature, and to offer guidance for relevant researchers' references. After analyses of corresponding volume of literature for five groups of keywords, we find that most authors are inclined to publish papers in "graduation design", which is even more popular in social sciences. By sorting out the years for published papers, we know that the year 2016 has witnessed the largest number of relevant papers. Through analyses of the indexes of authors, funds and institutions, phenomena of same author with more published relevant papers are more common in teaching-oriented universities, while the total number of published papers generally represents more of the scale of a university. Except National Natural Science Foundation of China, none of the other foundations has supported more than 10 of such papers, and Jiangsu Province has been prominent in its funding for such research work. The academic Doctor and Master Database literature enjoys a larger average single-paper quotations and download volumes, and is of great value to the teaching and research work on graduation design.