Academic Review
XIONG Juhua, GAO Yang, ZHOU Yongqiang, WU Hao, LI Xin, LIANG Dan, YU Wenping, MA Meihong, WANG Xiaofeng, CAI Shun
As an important pool of surface water resources, lakes and reservoirs are the most basic geographical unit and the most important centralized water supply source for large- and medium-sized cities in China, and they have many functions such as water supply, flood control, and biodiversity maintenance, which are closely related to human production and living. Lake sciences act as an important part of geographical sciences, and it is important to strengthen the basic research of lake sciences to help the construction of ecological civilization in China. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is the main channel for funding basic sciences research in China, and the NSFC applications, to a certain extent, reflect the frontiers the frontiers and hot spots in various research fields. The analysis of key words and other information in the applications shows that: (1) The increase in the number of applications for lake sciences was mainly in two periods, i.e. from 2004-2011 and from 2018 to 2022. (2) The number of applications under the two secondary codes of D0105 (landscape geography and integrated physical geography) and D0113 (remote sensing sciences) accounted for 25.0%±8.9% and 19.8%±5.5%, respectively, during 1986-2022. (3) “Lake Poyang”, “Lake Taihu”, “Lake Dongting”, “Tibetan Plateau”, “Three Gorges Reservoir” and other research areas appear more frequently, and “mechanism”, “wetland”, “watershed”, “remote sensing” and other research content and method buzzwords appear more frequently, which is roughly consistent with the search buzzword results on Web of Science and China Knowledge Network and other platforms. (4) The affiliations with the highest number of applicants submitted in the field of lake sciences are Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University, and Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in order. In the future, geographical sciences will further optimize the disciplinary layout and keyword settings, enhance cross-field interdisciplinary crossover, guide the focus on basic theories and frontier hotspot issues in lake sciences, and promote further high-quality development of lake sciences research in China.