Analysis of the Current Status and Trend of Domestic Eco-city Research based on CiteSpace

In today's era of rapid urbanisation and increasingly prominent ecological and environmental problems, creating a good living environment and building eco-cities to implement sustainable development has become the key to urban development in China. Based on the literature statistics and Citespace data analysis, this paper analyses the research papers on eco-city in CNKI database during 2001-2021, and analyses and summarizes the current situation and trend of eco-city research in China. The study shows that: ① the research and construction of eco-city still has great value. ② The research hotspots of eco-city have five major aspects: ecological civilisation, urbanisation/ urbanisation, indicator system, eco-city construction and sustainable development. ③ The directions of ecological civilisation construction, eco-city construction and sustainable development still occupy a place in the future direction of research and development. ④ The cooperation of scholars in the field of eco-city research is not close enough. ⑤ The field of eco-city research is in the stage of multidisciplinary cross-discipline, covering a wider range of dimensions. The research perspective, research content, and research methods and technical means are all characterised by obvious multidisciplinary intersection.