How Can Urban Regeneration Reduce Carbon Emissions? A Bibliometric Review
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
According to the reviewer, the article points to fascinating, well-structured, and essential lessons. However, an important aspect is missing, namely the presentation of the geographical distribution of the studies, which would require further analyses. It would be helpful to see how the different trends manifest themselves by continent or by larger groups of countries. Regarding this, the conclusion could also be expanded.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The authors perform an innovative bibliometric review on urban regeneration connected to carbon emission reduction. Methodology is appropriate and results significant.
Here are some minor suggested revisions:
p. 5 line 153: avoid to comment on Chinese committment towords a friendly environment. This would require a deeper analysis.
From fig. 6 onwards: substitute Traffic with Transportation.
Table 3: please specify if these policires are indivisuated through literature review or are authors' own.
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Reviewer 3 Report
In the era of rapid development of Global city, the urbanization mode of external expansion in the traditional incremental era is no longer applicable to some cities that have reached the development bottleneck. Therefore, how to optimize and develop based on the existing urban development stock has become a new direction of modern urban development. Urban regeneration is not only facing social problems such as post industrial city 'sluggish economic development and population expansion, but also facing environmental problems such as urban environmental protection and carbon emission control. The impact mechanism on urban regeneration and carbon emission control is of great scientific significance, providing strategic support for adaptive planning and strategies for regional sustainable development in the future, and also providing scientific basis for local global urban sustainable development. The paper provides a comprehensive, systematic, and detailed review and profound commentary on recent research related to urban regeneration and carbon emissions. The topic of the paper is also a hot topic and forefront of sustainable development today. The domestic and foreign literature is well understood, the review content is comprehensive and rich, the structure is complete, the logic is clear, the review is profound, and the outlook is strong.
1. In “ 2.1. Data collection and search strategy”, it is mentioned that the time span for literature search is from 1990/01/01 to 2023/03/21, while the other parts of the text are from 2000 to 2023?
2. In “3.3 Keywords clustering and timeline analysis”, highly correlated keywords are placed into the same cluster, but there is no specific explanation on how to define these clusters. It is necessary to clarify the specific commonalities between keywords to explain the definition results of the eight clusters in the text. It is recommended to supplement the definition method of clustering to facilitate readers' understanding of the relationship between keywords and cluster definitions.
3. Table 3 in 4.2 only provides a brief introduction to some urban regeneration strategies based on the key elements of carbon reduction. It is recommended to supplement relevant literature and data sources to assist in verifying the feasibility and positive effects of emission reduction strategies, in order to strengthen the scientific research of regeneration strategies.
4. The keywords such as centrality and intensity that appear in 3.3.2 and 3.4 lack interpretation. It is recommended to supplement and explain the specific concepts of quantification keywords centrality and intensity in the text to facilitate understanding the changes in research in this direction.
5. Whether there are some problems in the text format of the document with reference number 37, and whether the Letter spacing is too large. The report is quoted from the WeChat official account. Can you find other more professional and authoritative sources of the report as references.
6. In references 6 and 13, pay attention to consistency in the capitalization of journal names; In reference 8 and 42, the first letter of a word after a colon should be capitalized; Some authors are all listed in the literature, while others have only one author. It is recommended to unify the entire text; Carefully check the year and journal position in reference 17; The capitalization of article names in references 19, 23, 25, 34, 49, 51, 64, 67, 73, 84, 85 and 91 should be consistent with the entire text.
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