Knowledge Mapping on Literature Research Progress of Human Thermal Comfort in buildings Based on Web of Science

Abstract

This study focused on hot topics and front of thermal comfort in buildings by knowledge mapping of 577 research papers from 2009 to 2019 in the database of Web of Science as samples. CiteSpace software was used as the analyzing tool. The results showed the trend of the published researches on thermal comfort by analyzing high-frequency co-occurrence keywords and the keywords' frequency variation. The results also showed that the researches on thermal comfort about health had increased rapidly in recent years. Moreover, the institutions and authors involved in healthy indoor thermal environment were mostly from economically developed countries or regions. However, the productive author collaboration network had not been formed yet. Improving environmental quality is the forefront of current researches. The research of indoor environmental quality based on health may be a hot topic in the future.