Abstract
In recent decades, landscape aesthetic evaluation has been one of the research hotspots in the field of Landscape Science and Ecology, and Landscape Science, Ecology and other related disciplines have been integrated at multiple levels in the research. In order to sort out and summarize the research process and results in the past decade, with a view to find future research trends, we retrieved and downloaded papers on landscape aesthetic evaluation from the WOS database and analyzed them using a bibliometric method based on mathematical statistics. We used Excel to perform a basic analysis of the growth trends in the number of articles, source journals and countries. Co-citation analysis, Cluster analysis, and Keyword co-occurrence analysis were performed with Citespace, and visual graphs were generated. Based on the combing of landscape aesthetic evaluation research, we analyzed and discussed the research frontier and its evolution, key literature and research hotspots, development trend and knowledge structure in this field, and conclude that: (1) the research in the field in recent decade can be divided into the period of theoretical foundation construction, research system improvement and diversified development, (2) Research methods have developed from mainly evaluating landscape photos to the comprehensive use of GIS, VR, Eye-tracking, EEG testing and other technological means, and (3) research hotspots have expanded from Ecology, Scenic beauty evaluation and Landscape management to Rural landscape, Urban public space and Land use, representing the future development trend.
Highlights
IntroductionSince the 1960s, landscape aesthetic (preference) evaluation has been one of the research hotspots in the field of Landscape Science and Ecology, and this research direction involves disciplines such as Landscape Science, Ecology, Aesthetics, Psychology, Geography, etc
Since the 1960s, landscape aesthetic evaluation has been one of the research hotspots in the field of Landscape Science and Ecology, and this research direction involves disciplines such as Landscape Science, Ecology, Aesthetics, Psychology, Geography, etc
Many scholars have been trying to study the proposition of aesthetic evaluation of landscape, which is inclined to social science, with the help of natural science research methods, and have obtained important research results [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
Summary
Since the 1960s, landscape aesthetic (preference) evaluation has been one of the research hotspots in the field of Landscape Science and Ecology, and this research direction involves disciplines such as Landscape Science, Ecology, Aesthetics, Psychology, Geography, etc. Qiang Wang et al.: Visual Analysis of Landscape Aesthetic Evaluation Based on Bibliometric Methods grouped them into studies, and the results suggest that developing consistent approaches to the study of cultural ecosystem services is a particular challenge for researchers, and that these approaches may be useful in the future to address practical issues in the management of human-nature interactions [8, 9]. In order to summarize the process and results of research in the field of landscape aesthetic evaluation with a view to making new discoveries, this paper bypasses the traditional descriptive qualitative analysis method and uses a quantitative bibliometric method based on mathematical statistics to visually analyze the representative literature data in this direction in the last decade or so, hoping to reveal the connection patterns between the data precisely and intuitively. We used the core database of the WOS platform (Web of Science Core Collection) to search the papers on aesthetic evaluation of landscape since 2011 and conduct visual mathematical and statistical analysis (Excel, Citespace) to explore the historical evolution, research hotspots and future research trends of this field in a certain period (2011-2020)
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