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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 804-813.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2022.417

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Bibliometric analysis of cultivated land abandonment: Context and prospect

WANG Xinyou1(),WANG Yujiao2,3   

  1. 1. Gansu Open University, Lanzhou 730030, Gansu, China
    2. The Third Institute of Geology and Minerals Exploration, Gansu Provincial Bureau of Geology and Minerals Exploration and Development, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, China
    3. Engineering Technology Research Center for Exploration and Comprehensive Utilization of Metal and Precious Metal Mineral Resources of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, China
  • Received:2022-08-26 Revised:2022-09-26 Online:2023-05-25 Published:2023-06-05

Abstract:

Based on the literature in the databases of the Web of Science (SCI) and CNKI, CiteSpace is used to conduct data mining and quantitative analysis of the research papers in farmland abandonment from 1990 to 2021 (data updating time: March 20, 2022). The number of papers and citations, main authors, relevant academic journals, and keywords regarding cultivated land abandonment in China and abroad are systematically sorted out and studied comparatively. The future research direction of cultivated land abandonment in China is then discussed. The following results were obtained: (1) The number of papers regarding cultivated land abandonment has increased in the past 32 years. Scholars in China and abroad pay different attention to the field. There are differences in the development of the research on cultivated land abandonment in China and abroad, and the research focus of each stage is different. (2) Abandoned cultivated land, abandoned land, land use, landscape, carbon sink, and soil degradation are high-frequency keywords of cultivated land abandonment in recent years. (3) The research hot spots of the field in China mainly focus on the causes and influencing factors of cultivated land abandonment, while foreign research is more focused on community diversity and farmland landscape dynamics. (4) The research of Chinese and foreign scholars mostly focus on the causes, mechanism, impacts, and suggestions of farmland abandonment on a small scale, and there are few large-scale studies, including those on remote sensing, big data, network data simulation, and dynamic monitoring, among others. This study suggests that future research should be based on a global perspective. In addition, this study explores the content, causes, evolution mechanism, and impact of cultivated land abandonment systematically. Meanwhile, it should make full use of AI technology to detect and obtain the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultivated land abandonment and try to adopt the agricultural models such as the high-quality development of forest-grass integration to formulate reasonable and effective measures to deal with farmland abandonment.

Key words: farmland abandonment, CiteSpace, visualization, management, second ploughing