Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 27, Issue 15, Pages 17671-17691Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-08158-9
Keywords
Carbon footprint; Literature mining; Knowledge base; Research hotspot; CiteSpace; Literature review
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Funding
- National Natural Science Fund of China [71603257, 71874188, 71603255]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016 M601920]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2015QNA17]
- Major project of National Social Science Funding of China [18AZD014, 16ZDA056]
- Innovation Team Program of the China University of Mining and Technology [2015ZY003]
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As an important indicator of greenhouse gas emissions, the carbon footprint (CF) has become increasingly important in recent years under the dual pressures of global warming and international commitments to mitigate its effects. This study collected 3698 papers related to CF from the Web of Science database as research samples (year 2007 to 2018). Based on CiteSpace, the knowledge base, popular topics, and research trends of CF are presented. The results show the following: (1) from 2007 to 2018, the number of articles on CF have steadily increased. (2) After spatial analysis of the literature, we found that among research institutions, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has the largest number of publications on the issue. When it comes to country, three important research forces can be identified: USA, China, and UK. (3) Research on the CF is interdisciplinary; in addition to the traditional fields of environmental, political, economics, and computing, CF research has received attention from the Physics, Materials, Chemistry, Mathematics, and animal sciences. (4) Through keyword clustering, currently popular topics in research can be roughly divided into four aspects: CF calculation methods, research scales, energy, and agriculture. (5) The CF research during the study period is divided into four stages according to the burst time and content of the burst keywords. According to the research status and trend, this paper puts forward the future research direction of carbon footprint.
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