Environmental Cost Research Hotspots and Frontier Analysis —Visual Analysis Based on CiteSpaceV

Abstract

Using the core collection library of web of science as the data source, we obtained 996 documents related to environmental cost in the core collection of web of science from 1986 to 2019, and then used the information visualization software CitespaceV to draw scientific knowledge map. We found that: the research group is characterized by large dispersion and small concentration, and no academic community has been formed among core scholars; research institutes are concentrated in universities; the research has gone through two processes of germination and development, mainly focusing on the mechanism and accounting method of environmental cost impact and environmental cost management;new energy, new materials, resource consumption and multi-objective optimization have become popular word frequency in recent years. Under the guidance of the new economic development model of advocating green environmental protection and sustainable development, accounting is the constant theme of environmental cost research, and the development and utilization of clean production and renewable energy is the leading direction of environmental cost research in the future.