By applying the computational tool CiteSpace,the paper explored 9,553 documents relevant to spatial justice research from the Web of Science Core Collection and their 384,786 references.With the visualization of the d...By applying the computational tool CiteSpace,the paper explored 9,553 documents relevant to spatial justice research from the Web of Science Core Collection and their 384,786 references.With the visualization of the document/author co-citation and co-author/term network and the detection of pivotal nodes,the knowledge structure,evolution process,and emerging trends of spatial justice research have been teased out.The findings revealed that the spatial justice research is mainly supported by geography,environmental science,and urban studies and planning.Having formed 15 document co-citation clusters since 1993,the mainstream of the research directions consists of distributive justice in geography and socio-spatial relationship focusing on specific vulnerable groups.Four stages of the spatial justice research,combined with a comparative view on spatial equality,equity,and justice,depicted how its concept grew up from describing the subtle relationship between space and justice to a specific research topic accompanied by research collaboration network.Learning from environmental justice,spatial justice has been developing its indepth theories and methodologies since the 2000s,but still lacking sufficient connection with each other.Its recent research enjoys the diversity of researching orientation,scale,and object.The continuous improvement of spatial justice assessment has helped to introduce spatial justice towards a new researching domain,while there also has been a tendency of the return of theoretical study in the recent decade.This scientometric review demonstrates a relatively comprehensive measurement of spatial justice research,which establishes the background for future theoretical approaches and provides practical instructions for spatial justice participatory development and social activities.展开更多
文摘By applying the computational tool CiteSpace,the paper explored 9,553 documents relevant to spatial justice research from the Web of Science Core Collection and their 384,786 references.With the visualization of the document/author co-citation and co-author/term network and the detection of pivotal nodes,the knowledge structure,evolution process,and emerging trends of spatial justice research have been teased out.The findings revealed that the spatial justice research is mainly supported by geography,environmental science,and urban studies and planning.Having formed 15 document co-citation clusters since 1993,the mainstream of the research directions consists of distributive justice in geography and socio-spatial relationship focusing on specific vulnerable groups.Four stages of the spatial justice research,combined with a comparative view on spatial equality,equity,and justice,depicted how its concept grew up from describing the subtle relationship between space and justice to a specific research topic accompanied by research collaboration network.Learning from environmental justice,spatial justice has been developing its indepth theories and methodologies since the 2000s,but still lacking sufficient connection with each other.Its recent research enjoys the diversity of researching orientation,scale,and object.The continuous improvement of spatial justice assessment has helped to introduce spatial justice towards a new researching domain,while there also has been a tendency of the return of theoretical study in the recent decade.This scientometric review demonstrates a relatively comprehensive measurement of spatial justice research,which establishes the background for future theoretical approaches and provides practical instructions for spatial justice participatory development and social activities.
