Study on Bibliometric Visualization of Sustainable City Based on VOSviewer (2008-2021)

Abstract

In order to clarify the co-research, research hotspots and knowledge evolution in the field of sustainable city, a visualization analysis of 1816 articles about sustainable city in the Web of Science was conducted by using bibliometrics method based on VOSviewer. The conclusions are listed as follows. (1) The citable documents of sustainable city have shown a rapid upward trend, with increasing attention and rising research hot spot, year by year, since 2015. (2) Scholars should strengthen the construction of global academic community, and China should be more extensive and in-depth cooperation with and scientific research institutions in European and American countries or regions. (3) The research dimension of sustainable city has been greatly expanding under the continuous development of complex algorithm, data science and artificial intelligence, Hence, the interdisciplinary characteristics of this research field, such as intersections, comprehensiveness and systematicness, are becoming increasingly prominent.