中文摘要：

西方经济地理学正处于思维变革和快速成长时期，其研究框架因突出的历史随机性而备受关注。从主观判断转向客观计量，采用“Web of Science”数据库收录的期刊论文及其参考文献数据，借助CiteSpace工具挖掘西方经济地理学的知识基础、发展脉络以及近期研究热点，是对西方经济地理学框架研究的一个新尝试。研究发现，近十年西方经济地理学研究主题集中，共同知识基础明确，学科尚未形成势力强劲的分支学科；1990年代左右西方经济地理学学科研究进入活跃期，参考文献引用频次剧增，优秀文献著作涌现，作者的学科背景从多元领域过渡到地理学领域；各个聚类的发展趋势表明，“空间集聚经济”、“多维转向”、“全球经济”、和“集群一网络”这四个聚类在整个西方经济地理学地位突出，而“重塑经济地理”和“金融地理”这两个聚类很有可能会在未来的研究中保持沉寂；西方经济地理学近期的研究热点指向于有着高曝光度的关键词“创新”、“知识”、“网络”、“增长”以及中观尺度的“城市”和“产业”。

英文摘要：

West economic geography （WEG） is now in a period of thought evolution and growth spurt, the research outline framework has attracted much attention. Shifted from subjective judgment to objective measurement, the paper is a new attempt to study WEG＇ s outline framework. Taking advantage of the ＂Web of Science＂ database to collocate journal article and its reference, the paper focus on WEG＇ s knowledge base, historical development trends and recent research hot spot based on the platform of CiteSpace. We found that： 1） WEG has concentrated research topics and does not formed a powerful branch disciplines in nearly a decade; 2） Around the 1990s disciplinary research entered into an active phase, outstanding literature emerged and authors＇ academic background transited from the economic field to geography; 3） clustering trends suggest that ＂Spatial Agglomeration Economies＂, ＂Multidimensional Shift＂, ＂Global Economy＂, ＂Cluster-Network＂ are relatively vibrant and occupying the prominent position, but ＂Reshaping Economic Geography＂ and ＂Financial Geography＂ these two branches of study are likely to keep silence; 4） Research hotspots at present WEG point to keywords ＂innovation＂, ＂knowledge＂,＂growth＂, ＂networks＂, ＂cities＂ and ＂industry＂.