Table 2 The taxonomy of PDU

From: Bibliometric analysis of knowledge structures and evolution in global painting art from 1994 to 2024

Analytical perspective

Analytical dimension

Analytical units

Distribution perspective

Publication output

Yearly publication

Representative carrier

Representative countries

Core institutions

Discipline categories

Productive journals

Structural perspective

Collaborative patterns

Co-country/institution/author network

Research topic and hotspot area

Co-word Clustering

Knowledge flow and role presentation

Co-citation linkage and crucial paper

Evolutionary perspective

Time-slice knowledge landscape

Topic subnetwork

Temporal development roadmap

Topic dissemination path

  1. Source: Developed for the present study to structure publication, collaboration, and evolution analysis in painting art research.