Liyan Zhou

Liyan Zhou

30 Dec. 2022

China poverty alleviation studies, Web of Science (WOS), Bibliometrics, CiteSpace.

To get an overview of the current studies of poverty alleviation in China on Web of Science, 3311 papers in the WOS core collection from 2006 to 2021 were taken as the research data. CiteSpace is used to facilitate the analysis of the co-occurrence network of keywords, cooperative network and co-citation network. The results show that: First, WOS China's poverty alleviation studies cover a wide range of topics, with rural poverty as the largest one, together with a list of others including energy, land, sustainable development and targeted poverty alleviation. Various approaches are discussed, such as employment, education, finance, health, ecological poverty alleviation and social insurance. A timeline review, combined with the emerging trends since 2020 indicates that more research results can be achieved in relative poverty, e-commerce poverty alleviation, information management, hierarchical governance mechanism and governing efficiency. Second, from the perspective of the cooperative network, there have been some academic community focusing on education, child development, energy and land use. Both the network at institutional and national levels show that Chinese are the dominant researchers and has cooperated in many fields with research institutions such as Stanford University, the World Bank and other international organizations. Third, the relationship of co-citation of reference suggests that some influential and fundamental researches have been obtained, mainly in the fields of land improvement and rural revitalization. Some new concepts and ideas about the theory and practice of China's poverty equality practices are put forward, which are expected to be further verified, applied and developed in domestic as well as international poverty alleviation programs in the future.

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