Evolution of the United Nations Peacekeeping Research: A Visualized Bibliometrics Study

Xiaojing Wang, Yuqing Geng, Xinying Jiang, Qinjun Xiang and Mingyu Song

Complexity, 2025, vol. 2025, 1-20

Abstract: The United Nations peacekeeping has recently played a more proactive role in maintaining global peace and security. However, the majority of the literature lacks a comprehensive, visualized bibliometric analysis and forecast for emerging fields. This study employed CiteSpace to conduct a bibliometric analysis of 937 publications between 2000 and 2022, aiming to gain a comprehensive understanding of the research status and development trend of the UN peacekeeping research. Via the fundamental and in-depth analysis, we find that the overall publication trend has experienced a nonlinear but steady upward evolution due to the mature and stable cooperation research network established at the country, institution, and author levels; representative keywords such as peace, intervention, and civil war illustrate the dynamic evolution characteristics of hotspots and frontiers. This article is innovative because we use fundamental and in-depth analysis to depict a panorama of this field; identify the hotspots through macro-, meso-, and microlevels; and provide the knowledge framework with future research characteristics, which help scholars continue future research effectively.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1155/cplx/3438043

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