On evolutionary economic geography: a literature review using bibliometric analysis

ABSTRACT

During the past few decades, there has been growing attention paid towards evolutionary economic geography (EEG) perspectives, methodologies, and concepts in various disciplines such as geography, urban studies, and regional science. In order to better understand the development of EEG studies, this paper employs multiple bibliometric analyses. Specifically, it examines the temporal evolution of keyword co-occurrence network and the reference co-citation network of EEG publications during the last few decades to reveal the temporal evolution and spatial distribution of EEG publications, scholarly communication, research fronts, and intellectual structure of the scientific field.

KEYWORDS:

• Evolutionary economic geography
• bibliometric analysis
• keyword co-occurrence analysis
• reference co-citation analysis

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 There are 3,529 authors in our dataset. To ensure the figure is readable, we only include authors with more than 4 articles.

2 See also: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198755609-e-11

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Funding

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 41701115, 41425001, and 41731278].