Status and Trends of River Health Research Based on CiteSpace

Rivers provide many ecological service functions for human beings, and regular river health assessments can better protect or restore the health status of rivers. In order to clarify the trend of river health research and explore the research focus, this paper searched the related paper data in Chinese core journals from the CNKI database from 2013 to 2023 and SCI paper information from the core ensemble database of the Web of Science. The paper visualized the data by applying the data visualization technology in CiteSpace and analyzed the keywords, publication volume, and issuing organization by drawing the knowledge map. The knowledge network and keywords of issues related to river health in China and abroad were sorted out, and the hot topics and development trends in this field in the past ten years were demonstrated, so as to provide references for the improvement and research on issues related to river health.