Research Trend of Urban Metabolism in Elsevier Journals

Posted: 26 Jun 2019

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Qun Gao

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment

Bin Liu

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment

Chunlu Liu

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment

Youquan Xu

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment

Date Written: June 5, 2019

Abstract

An impressive series of research in general urban metabolism has been reported widely in articles published scientific journals for several decades. The research problems, questions, objectives, approaches, results, conclusions and recommendations in those articles inspired the researchers of this paper to conduct a comprehensive literature review study. Based on a hybrid bibliometric and scientometric approach, urban metabolism articles published in Elsevier journals were quantitatively analysed and visually presented in terms of the numbers of articles published annually, the appearance frequencies and changes of key research themes, the citation features and the writers’ affiliations and contributions. Several well-known literature review techniques have been applied in this paper. This research can provide common grounds for identifying trends of UM and the results will reveal the significant research topics, the active research locations and people, the intensive publication outlets, and the distribution of bursts in different stages.

This research may be extended to extensive bibliographic sources.

Keywords: urban metabolism;research trend; Elsevier Journals;Sustainability

JEL Classification: O44

Suggested Citation

Gao, Qun and Liu, Bin and Liu, Chunlu and Xu, Youquan, Research Trend of Urban Metabolism in Elsevier Journals (June 5, 2019). Abstract Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Cities (icRS Cities), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3399274

Qun Gao (Contact Author)

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment ( email )

1 Gheringhap Street
Geelong, Victoria 3220
Australia

Bin Liu

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment

1 Gheringhap Street
Geelong, Victoria 3220
Australia

Chunlu Liu

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment

1 Gheringhap Street
Geelong, Victoria 3220
Australia

Youquan Xu

Deakin University - School of Architecture and Built Environment

1 Gheringhap Street
Geelong, Victoria 3220
Australia

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