Advances in ecological product value research: A bibliometric analysis based on CiteSpace and VOSviewer

Abstract

Eco-product value research has received extensive attention from international scholars, and exploring the research hotspots and development trends in this field will provide new perspectives and directions for future eco-product value research and practice. This study retrieved and screened 1341 documents from the Web of Science (WOS) database from January 1, 1993 to November 19, 2023, and explored the research progress, hotspots and prospects of scholars in the field of eco-products value research using bibliometric analysis software such as CiteSpace and VOSviewer. Based on the relevant literature included in the WOS database, this study visualizes and analyzes the content of research institutions, scholars and keywords in this research field, and explores and analyzes the evolutionary vein and hotspots of concern in international ecological product value research. The results of the study show that the number of publications on eco-product value in the international academic community has been increasing rapidly since 2005; outstanding scholars in this field include Gret-regamey, Adrienne and Costanza, Robert, etc.; the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the research institution with the largest number of publications; and the analysis of the co-occurrence of keywords shows that the realization of eco-product value and accounting for eco-product value are important issues in this research field. In the future, academics should strengthen the research on ecological product value, focusing on the exploration of the real path of ecological product value realization, the deep excavation of the cultural value of ecological products and the standardization of ecological product value accounting methods.