Dan Wu, Zhuling Pan

Dan Wu

14 June 2023

Economic development, WOS, Knowledge graph, Research evolution, Keywords.

This article focuses on 2,768 SCI and SSCI journal articles in the field of economic development from 1998 to 2020 in the core database of WOS (Web of Science). By combining scientific econometric methods and visual analysis, it systematically reviews the research evolution, research frontiers, and research hotspots in the field of WOS economic development, including publication volume statistics, institutional cooperation distribution, author cooperation characteristics, hot topic keywords, and evolution analysis of hot research topics. Research has shown that, firstly, research in the field of WOS economic development can be roughly divided into three stages of evolution: The first stage (1998-2007) focused on research content and themes such as international economic and trade, regional economic development, and sustainable global economic development; In the second stage (2007-2016), research content and themes included economic development and ecological protection, economic development and urban construction, economic development and information technology, etc.; The third stage (2017-2020) focused on the research content and themes of economic development transformation and upgrading, as well as digital economic development, closely following the global era background; secondly, a number of closely cooperated colleges and universities and research institutions have formed, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences occupied the core position in this field with the number of papers ranked first. The author cooperation is relatively close and has not yet formed a stable core author group; thirdly, keywords such as "economic development", "economic growth", "financial development", "energy consumption", and "co2 emission" occupied an important position in the co-occurrence network of WOS economic development research. The research theme "low-carbon economy" represented by keywords such as "social economic development" and "carbon emission" has become an emerging research hotspot.

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