Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su10041182
Keywords
integrated urban water management; trend analysis; citation analysis; research direction prediction; NoteExpress; CiteSpace
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundations [71601134, 71771157]
- Soft Science Program of Sichuan Province [2017ZR0154]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017M612983, 2017M610609]
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Sponge City research has been attracting extensive attention both in practical and theoretical research field, as the increased threat of flood risk and environmental safety due to urbanization. Varies names of Sponge City prevalent in different countries, which leads to disconnection of literature in the same field of Sponge City. In this paper, a systematic literature mining of Sponge City is presented. A literature analysis system is created, which includes literature export from Web of Sciences and systematic analysis via NoteExpress and CiteSpace. Based on the final document storage which contains 962 articles, general trends are identified. Literature is classified into 9 theme types. Research foci of Sponge City are detected by citation and keywords burst detection. Further, some future research directions of Sponge City are anticipated, including trans-disciplinary approaches, a comprehensive design framework, application of information technology, and case studies of Sponge City in more parts of the world. The significance of this paper lies in summarizing past research, identifying research types, foci and anticipating some future research directions.
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