| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1049224 | Landscape and Urban Planning | 2014 | 10 Pages |
•Diverse research themes coalesce after two initial decades of publication.•Stable clusters reflect three major knowledge domains: human dimensions, landscape planning and analysis, and urban ecology.•Emerging themes and “hot topics” are identified along the edges and intersection of clusters.
In commemoration of the journal's 40th anniversary, the co-editor explores themes and trends covered by Landscape and Urban Planning and its parent journals through a qualitative comparison of co-occurrence term maps generated from the text corpora of its abstracts across the four decadal periods of publication. Cluster maps generated from the VOSviewer program reveal a coalescence of concepts for the last two decades along three knowledge domains: human dimensions, landscape analysis and planning, and urban ecology. Citation impact “heat maps” offer additional clues about emerging and high-impact topics. The editor assesses these findings with respect to the journal's aims and scope and offers some thoughts on future directions for research.
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