Research Hotspots,Evolution Path and Prospect of Sports Park in China:Visual Analysis Based on CiteSpace
Taking the 1,000 pieces of literature on the topic of sports parks since 1992 included in the journal database of China Knowl-edge Network as the data source,CiteSpace was used for visualization and analysis,and the temporal distribution of sports parks-relat-ed literature,the main authors and institutions,the main research fields,research hotspots,and the development lineage of sports parks were analyzed in the form of a knowledge mapping.It is found that:1)The amount of literature issued on sports parks shows a changing trend of starting,rapid rise,and fluctuating rise stage.2)The research among the authors and institutions of literature is-suance is more dispersed,and the degree of cooperation is low.3)The research takes the fields of architectural science and engineer-ing,tourism,sports,forestry,environmental science and resource utilization as the main body of research.4)Research hotspots in-clude case studies of typical sports parks,research on sports functions of other parks,planning and design of sports parks,and re-search on functions and values of sports parks.