Analysis of Past Transformations and Future Visualization of Peri-Urban Landscape and the Fragmentation of Ecosystems Using Scientometric Approach

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Department of Geography, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

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Background and purpose: previous researches have evaluated many landscape transformations; But in the current research, based on the literature and background of the subject, the gap and challenge between what should be; That is, the transformation of the landscape based on the thoughtful planning and policy-making system and what is observed in the form of heterogeneous and unstable transformations in the rural ecosystems in the peripheral areas of the city; It reveals the value and necessity of this research. In the meantime, paying attention to the reflections of the study field has led to numerous researches. But, so far, no comprehensive study has been conducted to investigate the network analysis of this field.

Materials and methods: to fill this gap, by reviewing the writings related to the subject; This research collected the articles published on the subject from the Scopus database in the years 2002 to 2024 and then 155 articles were selected based on the literature review of this field. Therefore, the research method of this study is based on a three-stage protocol of data collection regulation, monitoring, and analysis.. Finally, VOSviewer software was used to analyze both the citations of previous researches, the authorship and the occurrence of key words.

Results and discussion: The results revealed that from 2002 to 2024, research in the field of studies, the number of publications and the annual average number of citations along with the number of main journals publishing these articles have increased. It should be mentioned that so far 52 countries/regions around the world participated in the study. Currently, some active countries such as the United States, China, Italy, India, Spain, and Germany have published the most scientific documents in the field of studies on the transformation of the landscape of the surrounding environment of the city and the fragmentation of rural ecosystems and related research such as urban creeping expansion and land use change. . The density and accumulation of words in the cluster space; The focus and direction of researches in the field of studies up to 2016, older researches: creeping expansion of the city, land use, landscape ecology of land use change, fragmentation of the habitat in the center and core of the map. But, since 2018, the emergence of hotter and newer research questions on climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, forests, population statistics, spatial and landscape analysis, and landscape planning, etc., have created new opportunities for future research in this area. They provide the ground.

Conclusion: Based on the results, future research should focus on "how to develop policies consistent with the compatible transformation of the landscape of the surrounding areas of the city and land use management from the dual dimension of time and space", "how to expand the city", "how to use rural ecosystems" And finally, how to consider various elements with the aim of achieving the harmony of social, economic, and ecological elements and ensuring the sustainable use of the surrounding landscape and preventing the fragmentation of landscapes. It should be noted that the innovation of the present research is due to the fact that before this meta-analysis with the combined approach of adaptive and dynamic transformation of the landscape of the surrounding environment of the city and related studies such as the creeping expansion of the city and transformation of land use has not been done in the form of a comprehensive research. is The present results, with a comprehensive review of the studies, are a reference for future researches, especially considering the increasing focus and emphasis on researches parallel to the current research.

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