Abstract
Mapping knowledge domain (MKD) is an important research technology in bibliometrics. It provides a visual perspective for researchers and helps researchers to clearly understand the general situations of specific research fields. Presently, MKD has been widely used in fields such as ecology and transportation safety. In this paper, we conduct a systematically bibliometric analysis of the development trend on urban vitality research by using VOSviewer software, and this work is based on the related articles published in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between 1998 and 2018. In the implementation, we firstly introduce the annual numbers of articles, source journals, highly cited papers, and production countries relating to urban vitality research. Then, we adopt a keywords co-occurrence analysis to explore the topic distribution, research frontiers, and research trends of urban vitality research intuitively. Overall, the Mapped Knowledge Domain method has proved to be an effective way to assess research trends in specific disciplines and to contribute to researchers and governments with respect to management and decision-making on issues of science.
Highlights
The history of urban development has exceeded a thousand years
The Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) citation index databases in the Web of Science (WoS) core collection were retrieved as the source database for this study, which is a common source of data for scientific research [28,29] and bibliometric research [21,22,30]
This paper evaluates urban vitality research from 1998–2018 through bibliometric analysis in order to quantitatively understand the literature trends related to the theme
Summary
The history of urban development has exceeded a thousand years. Especially after the eighteenth century, city development has entered a rapid stage. Urban spaces are the carriers of human activities, and the development of cities is closely related to the future destiny of mankind. Some literature illustrates that a successful city should make its residents feel safe, comfortable and full of vitality [1,2]; have a rich street life, and have a reasonable urban order and urban form which can satisfy the needs of various human activities [3]. The city should have five characteristics: Vitality, suitability, sense, accessibility, and controllability [4]. Among these features, vitality means that the city provides residents with a safe place to live which can satisfy all the necessary activities for them [5]
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