Citespace-based analysis of hotspots for comprehensive research on digital economy and carbon neutrality in China

WANG Zhen

Abstract：With global climate change becoming severe,carbon neutrality and carbon peaking have become an international focus,while the digital economy is growing rapidly.The digital economy plays an important role in carbon neutrality.In order to explore the intrinsic connection and synergy between the two,based on Citespace software,we combed the related literature to analyze the knowledge mapping of the comprehensive research in the field of digital economy,carbon neutrality and peak carbon,so as to reveal the research hotspots and cutting-edge trends in this field.The results show that:① with the proposal of the"dual-carbon"goal,related research has grown rapidly,and the research in this field has mainly evolved into three major content areas:impact effects and mechanisms,technology paths and coping strategies,and environmental performance evaluation,respectively,to explore the multiple roles of the digital economy in low-carbon development,paths to achieve and effectiveness Evaluation.② Among the relevant research emergent words,"carbon peak"has the strongest heat,"low carbon"and"path"have the longest duration,and"environmental performance"and"resource allocation"are the most recent ones.③ From the analysis of macro and micro research hotspots in the spatial dimension,it is concluded that there is a need to deepen the research on the synergy between county and town economy and"dual carbon",and the case of green economy transformation of enterprises in the future.④ From the analysis of empirical research hotspots,it is concluded that in recent years,the literature of empirical analysis in this field has grown,commonly used entropy value method,DID model,etc.,but it is still necessary to construct a more perfect model and strengthen the research of multi-model combination in order to improve the accuracy.