Where Will ‘Water-Energy-Food’ Research Go Next?—Visualisation Review and Prospect

Research on water, energy, and food (WEF) is gradually becoming a global research hotspot in response to threats caused by the overexploitation of resources. In this study, 13,202 documents were selected from WoS database CiteSpace judge frontier development WEF research. visualisation was carried out 1547 papers that are most relevant The results show has increased during period, especially since 2015. Food Agriculture Organisation United Nations, Hoff, Bazilian have greatest influence promotion there significant cooperation between institutions countries. States, China, Kingdom main contributors. nexus become important case, 823 focused demonstrate contents, frontiers clusters, methods nexus. Applied researches nexus, such as security issues multi-objective optimisation current frontiers. Some new topics pandemic geopolitics not attracted enough attention relative their potential importance. A comprehensive data platform for inter-department subsystems should be constructed near future.