THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HAZE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS BASED ON WOS DATABASE

This paper takes 4,225 articles on the relationship between haze and economic growth in the Web of Science database from 1992 to 2017 as the research object, and uses CiteSpace to explore the spatial and temporal distribution, research topics and hot trends of the literature. The results show that: (1) The relevant literature volume keeps growing at a high speed. (2) The cooperative group of high yield authors represented by Huang GH and Streets DG is basically formed. (3) The research institutions are divided into the top international colleges and universities represented by Tsinghua University and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as the two major groups of international well-known scientific research institutes represented by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the American Environmental Protection Agency. (4) The cited high literature is concentrated in the six international high level journals such as "Science". (5) The two major cooperation bodies of "the United States-China" and "Holland- France-Italy-Spain" have been formed. (6) The research topics are mainly about the economic mechanism of haze formation, its relationship with economic growth, spatial spillover effects and countermeasures. (7) The research hotspots show trends from "air pollution" and "health" to "PM2.5" and "CO2 emission".