Review of Urbanization-Associated Farmland Research in China: A Sustainability Perspective
<p>Flow diagram of data collection based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. See text for the four criteria to filter eligible studies for thematic coding and case synthesis.</p> "> Figure 2
<p>Thematic clustering of the topics identified from the <span class="html-italic">keywords</span> (<b>A</b>), <span class="html-italic">titles</span>, and <span class="html-italic">abstracts</span> (<b>B</b>), as well as their temporal evolution (<b>C</b>,<b>D</b>). The node size of a phrase is proportionate to its relative frequency. The analyses adopted VOSviewer’s default settings; the association strength method was used for normalizing the strength of the links between nodes.</p> "> Figure 3
<p>Main paths of the development of UAFL research literature in China, based on citation linkages among the top 25 papers with the most local citations (from within the sampled 615 papers) (see <a href="#app1-land-13-00534" class="html-app">Table S3</a> for bibliographic details). The six seminal papers shaded gray are among the top 20 cited references within the 615 papers (detailed in <a href="#land-13-00534-t001" class="html-table">Table 1</a>), suggesting their relatively larger influences on subsequent research about UAFL in China. Note that the two seminal papers published in 2005 by Tan and his colleagues is distinguished in the main text by Tan et al. (2005a) [<a href="#B61-land-13-00534" class="html-bibr">61</a>] and Tan et al. (2005) [<a href="#B41-land-13-00534" class="html-bibr">41</a>].</p> "> Figure 4
<p>Sustainability features of UAFL case studies in China (N = 103): (<b>A</b>) oriented toward addressing social–environmental sustainability impacts or not; (<b>B</b>) delving into underlying social–environmental processes or not; and (<b>C</b>) adopting qualitative, quantitative, or mixed research methodology.</p> "> Figure 5
<p>Empirical focuses of UAFL case studies in China (N = 103): (<b>A</b>) study period; (<b>B</b>) geographic scale; and (<b>C</b>) study area. Word size in panels A and C are proportionate to its relative frequency.</p> ">
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Literature Search and Data Collection
2.2. Bibliometric Analyses: Topic Mining, Historiography Mapping, and Beyond
2.3. Thematic Coding and Meta-Analysis of Case Studies
3. Results
3.1. Knowledge Base, Thematic Evolution, and the Literature Development Paths
3.2. Meta-Analysis of Empirical Case Studies
4. Discussion
5. Concluding Remarks
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Yang, Q.; Pu, L.; Huang, S. Review of Urbanization-Associated Farmland Research in China: A Sustainability Perspective. Land 2024, 13, 534. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040534
Yang Q, Pu L, Huang S. Review of Urbanization-Associated Farmland Research in China: A Sustainability Perspective. Land. 2024; 13(4):534. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040534
Chicago/Turabian StyleYang, Qiqi, Lijie Pu, and Sihua Huang. 2024. "Review of Urbanization-Associated Farmland Research in China: A Sustainability Perspective" Land 13, no. 4: 534. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040534