A systematic bibliometric review of low impact development research articles

Abstract

By collecting the low impact development (LID)-related publications from 2004 to 2021 in Chinese and English based on the WOS and CNKI databases, the information visualization analysis software entitled “CiteSpace” is exploited to carry out statistical analysis and visualization. The scrutiny is conducted based on three main aspects: bibliometrics, hotspot keyword co-occurrence and clustering, and co-citation clustering, in an attempt to perform a systematic review of the current LID research. The obtained results reveal that: (i) studies from countries other than China mainly are aimed to focus on the improvement and expansion of the research framework, while Chinese ones focus on the application of technologies related to sponge city construction; (ii) investigations from other countries emphasize on the impact of global climate change, while Chinese ones focus on the impact of land-use type changes; (iii) performed studies from other countries focus on the optimization of the LID parameters through experimental research, while Chinese ones determine the type, quantity, location, and combination of optimal LID measures based on the model simulation.