Abstract:
CiteSpace software was used to conduct a visual analysis of
1062 core journal articles on farmers' professional cooperatives published in China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI)from 2015 to 2024.A systematic review of research hotspots, evolutionary trajectories, and development trends over the past decade reveals that China's farmers' professional cooperatives have successively undergone three developmental phases: scale expansion, standardized governance, and functional expansion.Research focus has shifted from early concerns with internal governance and performance evaluation to diverse themes, including rural revitalization, green production, cooperative federations, and interest-linkage mechanisms.Keywords centrality analysis identified that green production has emerged as a pivotal hub interconnecting multiple research domains, signaling a trend toward transforming cooperative functions from economic orientation towards sustainable development.Research hotspots were further categorized through three lenses of rural revitalization, influencing factors, and cooperative federations, all of which encompassed four elemental categories: internal governance, external environment, resource factors, and formation motivations.It provides a systematic reference for grasping dynamic evolution of research on farmers' professional cooperatives, and also offers a theoretical basis for healthy development of agricultural professional cooperatives.