A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Human Settlements Improvement Based on CNKI and Web of Science

In the context of rural revitalization, scientific and efficient improvement of the human settlement environment is of great practical significance to improve the quality of life of farmers as well as to promote modern rural construction. To understand the research status and trends of human settlement environment improvement, the paper visually analyzed the relevant literature from 2012 to 2022 based on CNKI and the Web of Science database with the help of CiteSpace software(developed by Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) (v6.2.r2). The results show the following: (1) the research literature on human settlement environment improvement has undergone three stages of slow growth, steady growth, and explosive growth; (2) many countries and institutions have published research on the improvement of human settlement environment, forming a close cooperative relationship; (3) three research hotspots have been formed: the concept and classification of the human settlement environment, the improvement path of the human settlement environment, and the evaluation method of the human settlement environment; and (4) waste management and green space are the frontier issues in the field of human settlement environment improvement. The subsequent research on the improvement of human settlement environments should strengthen the breadth and depth of research, improve the evaluation index system, innovate research methods, and build interdisciplinary integration, to provide a perfect research paradigm for research on the improvement of human settlement environments in the future.