Dan Wu, Zhuling Pan

Dan Wu

14 June 2023

CiteSpace, Scientific and technological innovation, Knowledge graph, Research hotspot, Keyword.

In view of 2,853 scientific and technological innovation research articles in the WOS kernel database from 1998 to 2020, this study uses scientometrics method to carry out visual research on research hotspots and evolution context in the field of WOS scientific and technological innovation. With the help of CiteSpace 6.1.R6 visualization analysis tool, it draws knowledge graphs of WOS scientific and technological innovation research, mainly including keyword co-occurrence network graph and mutation distribution table, keyword clustering graph, and keyword timeline graph. Research has shown that science and technology are a primary productive force, scientific and technological innovation is the core driving force for high-quality economic development, and changes in the scientific and technological innovation capabilities of various countries can profoundly affect the international situation. However, the focus of scientific and technological innovation research varied in different periods, mainly manifested in that, firstly, from 1998 to 2006, the research in the field of WOS scientific and technological innovation mainly focused on economic development, with industry scientific and technological innovation, enterprise scientific and technological innovation, academic research in universities, climate change, and other mainstream research hotspots; secondly, from 2007 to 2013, research in the field of WOS scientific and technological innovation mainly focused on coordinated development, with regional scientific and technological innovation, heterogeneous scientific and technological innovation capabilities, energy consumption, and scientific and technological innovation systems as mainstream research hotspots; thirdly, from 2014 to 2020, research in the field of WOS scientific and technological innovation mainly focused on sustainable development, with government innovation policies, carbon emissions, and scientific and technological innovation performance as mainstream research hotspots.

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