中文摘要：

中国生态与环境及可持续发展面临的许多问题都与土地利用及其变化有着密切的联系，寻求解决这些问题的途径的迫切性决定了开展土地利用综合研究的必要性和重要性。土地利用研究文献则是反映土地利用研究水平、研究现状及趋势的晴雨表，对于展示中国的土地利用研究成果，制定科学的区域可持续发展政策，正确认识我国土地利用研究的热点（区域和问题）有着重要的科学价值和借鉴意义。通过对近百年来国内发表的中文文献的不完全统计和分析，以1978-2007年发表的4531篇中国土地利用研究论文为数据源，利用文献计量学方法，从中国土地利用研究文献的数量、研究区域、研究方法、研究主题的分布及变化等方面进行了深入的分析，并探讨了中国土地利用研究现状及发展趋势。

英文摘要：

Many ecological and environmental problems in China and the difficulties emerging in the progress of sustainable development are always related to land use and its change. So it is necessary to find ways to solve such problems that determine the necessity and importance of the comprehensive researches on land use. The research literature on land use reflects the level, current situation and trend of the researches, which have important scientific value and strategic significance in showing the land use researches in China, providing scientific basis for policy formulation of regional sustainable development and identifying hotspot region and problem in the land use researches. This paper further analyzed the aspects of quantity, study area, method, topics and changes of Chinese literature on land use in China in the latest 30 years by the method of biblio- metrics, and explored the current situation and trend of researches on land use based on 4531 relevant papers covering the period 1978-2007 that were gained through incomplete searches for and analysis on the literatures in recent 100 years. The literature analysis showed that： （1） The numbers of Chinese literature on land use in the latest 30 years steadily increased from 2 articles in 1978 to 796 in 2007, and the quality of the papers improved gradually, especially, both kept a trend of rapid development in the past 10 years. （2） The percentage of papers on case researches of the special study area was low （only 16.8%）, however, the number of theoretical papers and re- views took up quite a few. （3） The number of papers on LUCC and their driving forces were the most （33.6%）, and papers on land use classification and partitioning were fewer （7.15%） in the distribution of research topic. （4） In view of the study area, the researches are mainly distributed in eastern China, but the trend of the new research was focused on western China, especially en- vironmental sensitive area, such as arid farming-pastoral zone, rural-urban fringe