Navigating Research Frontiers in China’s Rural Planning: A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Development
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1. Methods
2.2. Data Collection and Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Statistical Analysis
3.2. Active Sources
3.3. Active Authors
3.4. Social Structure
3.5. High-Impact Documents
3.6. Keyword Frequency and Co-Occurrence
4. Research Fronts
4.1. Rural Entities Characterized by Their Regional Traits
4.2. Evolutionary Patterns and Transformations in Rural Land Utilization
4.3. Urban–Rural Dynamics and the Governance of Rural Spatial Domains
4.4. Creating an Evaluative Framework Aligned with the Interplay of Resource–Environment Dynamics and Development Levels
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Description | Results |
---|---|
Indexed Timespan | 1 January 2004—23 December 2024 |
Sources | 262 |
Documents | 1057 |
Annual Growth Rate % | 23.46 |
Document Average Age | 3.43 |
Average Citations Per Doc | 17.96 |
References | 44,138 |
Author’s Keywords | 3509 |
Authors | 3061 |
Single-Authored Docs | 35 |
Co-Authors Per Doc | 4.46 |
International Co-authorships % | 24.22 |
Journal | JCR Category | h-Index | g-Index | Article Count | Total Citations | Start Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Land Use Policy |
| 33 | 62 | 66 | 3860 | 2009 |
Habitat International |
| 22 | 30 | 30 | 1150 | 2013 |
Sustainability |
| 17 | 26 | 127 | 1107 | 2014 |
Journal of Geographical Sciences |
| 16 | 25 | 25 | 937 | 2015 |
Land |
| 12 | 15 | 124 | 476 | 2020 |
Cited Journal | Title | Year | LC 1 | GC 2 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Land Use Policy | Accelerated restructuring in rural China fueled by ‘increasing vs. decreasing balance’ land-use policy for dealing with hollowed villages [74] | 2012 | 88 | 621 |
Land Use Policy | Community-based rural residential land consolidation and allocation can help to revitalize hollowed villages in traditional agricultural areas of China: Evidence from Dancheng County, Henan Province [75] | 2014 | 55 | 291 |
Land Use Policy | Spatio-temporal dynamic patterns of farmland and rural settlements in Su–Xi–Chang region: Implications for building a new countryside in coastal China [76] | 2009 | 45 | 306 |
Journal of Rural Studies | Spatio-temporal pattern of China’s rural development: A rurality index perspective [77] | 2015 | 19 | 150 |
Journal of Rural Studies | Bottom-up initiatives and revival in the face of rural decline: Case studies from China and Sweden [78] | 2016 | 19 | 148 |
Science of the Total Environment | Conflict or coordination? Assessing land use multi-functionalization using production-living-ecology analysis [79] | 2017 | 19 | 192 |
Habitat International | Quantitative identification and spatial analysis of land use ecological-production-living functions in rural areas on China’s southeast coast [80] | 2020 | 18 | 93 |
Habitat International | Rural settlement land dynamic modes and policy implications in Beijing metropolitan region, China [81] | 2014 | 17 | 65 |
Journal of Cleaner Production | Urbanization for rural sustainability—Rethinking China’s urbanization strategy [21] | 2018 | 16 | 204 |
Journal of Geographical Sciences | Rural vitalization in China: A perspective of land consolidation [41] | 2019 | 16 | 169 |
Journal of Geographical Sciences | Rural restructuring in China: Theory, approaches and research prospect [63] | 2017 | 16 | 133 |
Habitat International | Spatial distribution characteristics of rural settlements under diversified rural production functions: A case of Taizhou, China [82] | 2020 | 16 | 48 |
Habitat International | Combining weighted daily life circles and land suitability for rural settlement reconstruction [83] | 2018 | 16 | 44 |
Keyword | Occurrences | Title Bigrams | Occurrences |
---|---|---|---|
china | 137 | ecosystem services | 39 |
urbanization | 59 | rural settlements | 37 |
land use | 32 | province china | 31 |
ecosystem services | 31 | urban heat | 28 |
rural revitalization | 27 | rural tourism | 27 |
rural tourism | 26 | traditional villages | 27 |
rural settlements | 25 | influencing factors | 26 |
sustainable development | 25 | city china | 23 |
urban planning | 21 | heat island | 22 |
landscape pattern | 19 | construction land | 21 |
Cluster | Theme Size | Label (LSI) | Label (LLR) | Label (MI) |
---|---|---|---|---|
4.1 Rural entities characterized by their regional traits | 108 | traditional village; space syntax; spatial accessibility | traditional village; ethnic tourism; space of villages and towns | ethnic tourism; space of villages and towns |
78 | geographical detector; spatial evolution; karst mountain area | terraced agro-cultural landscape; subjective preference; landscape visual sensitivity | china; rural settlements | |
4.2 Evolutionary patterns and transformations in rural land utilization | 77 | influencing factors; spatiotemporal evolution; pingyang county | pingyang county; yangtze river delta; high-standard farmland | china; rural settlements |
4.3 Urban–rural dynamics and the governance of rural spatial domains | 125 | spatial equity; density pattern; center-edge gradients | multiscale life circle; crowdsourcing data; diversity pattern | multiscale life circle; crowdsourcing data |
119 | public goods output; high-value land; morphological spatial pattern analysis | public goods output; high-value land; deep neural network | china; public goods output | |
4.4 Creating an evaluative framework aligned with the interplay of resource–environment dynamics and development levels | 219 | rural settlements; pastoral ecotone; suitability evolution | rural housing land; rural living environments; collective action | rural living environments |
104 | landscape connectivity; urban planning; ecological corridor | nanjing jiangbei new area; land resources; optimal allocation | nanjing jiangbei new area; land resources | |
43 | comprehensive land consolidation; rural industry revitalization; national land spatial planning | comprehensive land consolidation; national land spatial planning; rural industry revitalization | china; rural settlements |
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Xu S, Gao H. Navigating Research Frontiers in China’s Rural Planning: A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Development. Sustainability. 2025; 17(1):340. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17010340
Chicago/Turabian StyleXu, Song, and Huichen Gao. 2025. "Navigating Research Frontiers in China’s Rural Planning: A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Development" Sustainability 17, no. 1: 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17010340
APA StyleXu, S., & Gao, H. (2025). Navigating Research Frontiers in China’s Rural Planning: A Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Development. Sustainability, 17(1), 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17010340