Bibliometric Insights into Ecosystem Services Research from 2000 to 2025
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Bibliometric analysis; Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Land use; SustainabilityAbstract
Ecosystem services research has experienced significant growth over the past two decades as scholars increasingly seek to understand and quantify the contributions of ecosystems to human well-being and sustainable development. This study aims to map the intellectual structure, thematic evolution, and collaboration patterns of ecosystem services research published between 2000 and 2025 using a bibliometric approach. Bibliographic data were retrieved from the Scopus database and analyzed using VOSviewer to examine publication trends, co-authorship networks, institutional and country collaborations, keyword co-occurrence, and temporal dynamics. The results reveal a rapidly expanding and highly interdisciplinary field, with ecosystem services research strongly anchored in themes related to biodiversity, land use, climate change, and conservation, while progressively integrating urban sustainability, socio-economic dimensions, and advanced computational methods such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. The analysis also highlights the dominant role of a limited number of countries and institutions in shaping global research agendas, alongside increasing international collaboration. By providing a comprehensive synthesis of the field’s development and emerging research fronts, this study contributes to a clearer understanding of ecosystem services scholarship and offers insights to support future research, policy formulation, and sustainability-oriented decision-making.
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