A Scientometrics Review on Land Ecosystem Service Research

Abstract

Humans can derive the benefits from the ecosystem to satisfy human needs as well-being. Therefore, good ecosystem management is the intermediary between ecosystems and human well-being. The ecosystem services depend on the supply of nature, and also reflect the value orientation of human beings, as the basis for the realization of human survival and cultural development. Land ecosystem services are the core and hot topic of ecological research. Under the current severe depletion of land use, this research evaluates the sustainable governance on the natural resource shortage, serious environmental pollution and ecosystem degradation. Based on the Web of Science database, this paper analyzes the development characteristics and trends of global land ecosystem services research using the Bibliometrix software package. The results show that (1) the amount of literature on land ecosystem services research between 2000 and 2019 has generally increased significantly, and entered a stage of rapid development from 2015. (2) Developed countries are the main research force in the field of land ecosystem services, and the United States has the absolute leading position. Developing countries are dominated by China, Argentina, and Brazil. (3)The high-frequency keywords for land ecosystem services are land use change, land use, climate change, urbanization, carbon and water quality. This can be regarded as a research hotspot in the field of land ecosystem services to a certain extent. (4) Through cluster analysis on the big data, the research found the direction for the future land ecosystem services, mainly: (I) the restoration of degraded land and its impact on ecosystem services; (II) the environmental impact assessment of land use planning based on the ecosystem services value; (III) the tradeoff analysis of ecosystem services in sustainable land management; (IV) the impact of land cover change on ecosystem services; (V) through the historical analysis of citied papers, the research history and evolution path of land ecosystem services are explored. Based on all these arguments, a comprehensive study on the diverse facets of land ecosystem services and the practical application of land ecosystem services areas is proposed.

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“…To accurately and comprehensively analyze the development status and research hotspots in the field of food security and to develop visualizations thereof, this paper analyzes the research status and hotspot trends in the field of food security using the software packages CiteSpace 5.5, VOSviewer, and Bibliometrix. The detailed steps for this research are shown in Figure 1. matrix; the co-citation, coupling, co-, and co-word analyses; and other aspects of research and visualization [52] from recent years in various fields of scientific research [53][54][55]. VOSviewer, developed by Nies Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman, is widely used in all kinds of co-occurrence analysis software, especially in terms of keyword co-occurrence analysis [56][57][58][59][60][61].…”

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“…As pointed above, bibliometric studies are valuable, yet, while documenting what is out there is interesting, the analysis needs to dive into the substance of the works in order to advance the understanding of the phenomenon under investigation. Therefore, when designing this study special attention was put on the works published by the developers of Bibliometrix [24,25] as well as on other relevant works that employ this software package and go beyond descriptive findings to create interpretations (e.g., [26][27][28]).…”

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