Analysis of Amorpha fruticosa L.Research Progress and Trend Based on Bibliometrics
Taking CNKI Full-text Database as the data source, the literatures on the study of Amorpha fruticosa L.published from2012 to2021 were retrieved, and the annual change trend of number of articles, literature types, research teams, research institutions, research high-fre-quency words, single citation frequency and literature research direction were analyzed systematically by Excel and VOSviewer softwares. The results showed that from 2012 to 2021, a total of 618 Chinese literatures related to A. fruticosa were included in the CNKI database, of which 261 papers (43.72 %) were forestry literatures. Among all these literatures, 193 were supported by fund projects, and 167 (86.53%) were supported by national fund projects. The research institution with the largest number of papers was Northwest A&F University, with a total of 57 papers (25.68%). Journal of Northwest A&F University collected the most related literatures on Amorpha amorpha,number of which was 25 in total. Moreover, the ecology and environment, afforestation and cultivation, plant physiology of A. fruticosa were the research hotspots in recent years. China had achieved high level of scientific research results in these three research directions. Although the number of literatures on A. fruticosa showed a downward trend since 2014, it had increased in 2020, which indicated that the scientific research value of A. fruticosa had regained the attention of scholars.
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