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To investigate the development course, research hotspots and latest trends on environmental accounting, this paper regarded 1191 articles in the WoS Core Collection database as the research objects. Besides, through descriptive statistics, keyword analysis, and citation analysis based on CiteSpace V, the research results are as follows. (1) The research has gone through three stages, focusing on environmental accounting concept, environmental accounting system, and national policies. (2) The research paths of environmental accounting mainly include biodiverse environmental planting, Western Europe, decision support, long-term forest inventory data, green cost, using graph search algorithm, international flow, Austrias livestock system, and carbon accounting tool. Meanwhile, the research frontiers mainly included carbon sequence, aboveground bioma, climate, and life cycle assessment. (3) References that attract scholars’ attention include Daily et al. (Science 289:395–396, 2000 [1]), Solomon et al. (Climate change, vol 18, pp 95–123, 2007 [2]), Costanza et al. (World Environ 387:253–260, 1997 [3]), Luyssaert and Schulze (Nature 455:213–215, 2008 [4]), and Maler (Environ Resour Econ 1:1–15, 1991 [5]). Our findings provide insights into the promotion of the research on environmental accounting.
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This research was funded by the Student Science and Technology Activity Program of North China University of Technology (203051360020), Beijing Urban Governance Research Center (20XN232), the Scientific Research Starting Foundation Program of North China University of Technology (110051360002).
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Gao, Y., Ning, M. (2021). A Visualization Analysis of Environmental Accounting Research Based on CiteSpace. In: Li, M., Bohács, G., Hua, G., Gong, D., Shang, X. (eds) IEIS 2020. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4363-4_8
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