Engineering Research Center for Forest and Grassland Disaster Prevention and Reduction, Mianyang Normal University, Mianyang, 621000, China.
College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar;30(12):32230-32245. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-25615-3. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
Ecological restoration projects are becoming a mainstream of research, and their studies are widely followed by scholars worldwide, yet there is no comprehensive review of this research. Nowadays, bibliometrics has attracted much attention from the scientific community, and its methodological approach allows quantitative and qualitative analysis of research performance in journals or subject areas. This paper provides a systematic and comprehensive description of the progress and hotspots of ecological restoration projects from a bibliometric perspective, based on 1173 articles in the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) database. Research on ecological restoration projects has shown a positive growth trend since the twenty-first century. China and the USA are the most active countries in terms of the number of relevant articles published, and more than half of the top 10 active institutions are from China, but there is less collaboration between different countries/institutions. Research in ecological restoration projects is summarized into three main research areas: the main ecological damage problems, the impact of human beings on ecological damage, and the main methods of ecological restoration. Finally, some challenges and outlooks conducive to the rapid and balanced development of ecological restoration projects are presented, which provide valuable references and help for future researchers.
生态恢复项目正在成为研究的主流，其研究受到了全球学者的广泛关注，但目前还没有对此类研究进行全面的综述。如今，文献计量学已经引起了科学界的广泛关注，其方法学方法可以对期刊或学科领域的研究绩效进行定量和定性分析。本文基于 WOSCC 数据库中的 1173 篇文章，从文献计量学的角度，对生态恢复项目的进展和热点进行了系统全面的描述。自 21 世纪以来，生态恢复项目的研究呈现出积极的增长趋势。中国和美国在相关文章发表数量方面最为活跃，排名前 10 的机构中有一半以上来自中国，但不同国家/机构之间的合作较少。生态恢复项目的研究总结为三个主要研究领域：主要的生态破坏问题、人类对生态破坏的影响以及生态恢复的主要方法。最后，提出了一些有利于生态恢复项目快速和平衡发展的挑战和展望，为未来的研究人员提供了有价值的参考和帮助。
