Visualization analysis of research hotspots and frontiers on factors influencing urban green innovation—Based on CiteSpace knowledge map

With the increasing call for sustainable development, cities’ demand green innovation has also been growing. However, relatively little research summarizes influencing factors of urban innovation. In this study, we conducted a visual analysis 1193 articles on in cities from Web Science core database using bibliometrics and visualization analysis. By analyzing co-occurrence, co-citation, high-frequency keywords literature, explored current status development trends summarized field. The study found that collaboration among authors institutions field needs to be strengthened certain extent. addition, identified hotspots frontiers innovation, including “management”, “diffusion”, “smart city”, “indicator”, “sustainable “governance”, “environmental regulation”. Among them, “internet” are field, which expected have profound impacts future co-citation results China highest output followed by United States, England, Australia, Italy. conclusion, uses CiteSpace software identify important Urban gradually become norm social collective behavior process concretization, interdisciplinary technological These findings reference value promoting practice