Literature Review of Key Areas and Frontier Trends in Landscape Performance Research Based on CiteSpace Bibliometric Analysis

Landscape performance research provides an important scientific basis for supporting, evaluating and guiding the practice of landscape values. With substantial increase in the number of relevant research literature, it is difficult to objectively grasp the width and depth of current research content. As a main tool in visual analysis of current document information, CiteSpace provides technical support for mining the network structure and frontier trends of research knowledge. Taking the landscape performance literature of 2000-2017 included in the Web of Science database as the research object, and combining bibliometric analysis and manual review, we give an objective and quantitative presentation of the literature overview and development context of current landscape performance research, and then systematically reveal the landscape performance. The seven key areas of research and the two frontier directions provide reference for expanding China's current research content and clarifying the future development direction, with a view to promoting further development of landscape performance research in China.