School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
School of Management, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Oct 6;15(10):2181. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15102181.
Numerous studies in urban resilience have been published in the past decade. However, only a few publications have tracked the evolution trends of urban resilience research, the findings of which can serve as a useful guide for scholars to foresee worth-effort research areas and make the best use of precious time and resources. In order to fill the research gap, this study performed a scientometric analysis on the evolution trends of urban resilience research using a versatile software package-CiteSpace. The scientomentric analysis focuses on distribution of lead authors and their institutions, high frequency categories and keywords, high influential journals, author contribution, and evolutionary trends based on co-author analysis, co-word analysis, co-citation analysis and cluster analysis of documents. This study discoveries that first, the U.S., England, Australia, Canada, China and Sweden are the countries that make the most significant contributions in the advancement of urban resilience research; second, the existing urban resilience research focuses primarily on environmental studies, geography and planning development; third, hot topics of the urban resilience research keep shifting from 1993 to 2016; fourth, the knowledge body of urban resilience research consists of five clusters: resilience exploratory analysis, disaster resilience, urban resilience, urban resilience practice, and social-ecological systems; last, the emerging trends in urban resilience research include defining urban resilience, adaptation model, case studies, analytical methods and urban social-ecological systems, resulting in cutting-edge research areas in urban resilience.
过去十年中，已经发表了许多关于城市弹性的研究。然而，只有少数出版物跟踪了城市弹性研究的演变趋势，这些发现可以为学者提供有用的指导，帮助他们预见值得努力的研究领域，并充分利用宝贵的时间和资源。为了填补这一研究空白，本研究使用多功能软件包 CiteSpace 对城市弹性研究的演变趋势进行了科学计量分析。科学计量分析侧重于主要作者及其机构的分布、高频类别和关键词、高影响力期刊、作者贡献以及基于合著者分析、共词分析、共引分析和文献聚类分析的演变趋势。本研究发现，首先，美国、英国、澳大利亚、加拿大、中国和瑞典是在推进城市弹性研究方面做出最大贡献的国家；其次，现有的城市弹性研究主要集中在环境研究、地理和规划发展方面；第三，城市弹性研究的热点话题从 1993 年到 2016 年不断变化；第四，城市弹性研究的知识体系由五个聚类组成：弹性探索分析、灾害弹性、城市弹性、城市弹性实践和社会生态系统；最后，城市弹性研究的新兴趋势包括定义城市弹性、适应模型、案例研究、分析方法和城市社会生态系统，从而形成城市弹性的前沿研究领域。
