Research of Hotspots and Emerging Trends in Swarm Intelligence (2013-2022): A Visualization Analysis based on Citespace

Based on the theory of scientometrics and visual analysis, this paper uses Citespace to analyze the Publication Distribution, Geographical Distribution, Institutional Distribution, Hotspots, Emerging Trends in Swarm Intelligence. The dataset includes 7370 records published in Web of Science core database from 2013 to 2022. The results show that the publication volume of Swarm Intelligence has been increasing over the past decade. China has the largest number of publications in the world. The main research force is distributed in Europe and Australia. Research hotspots focus on the optimization of Particle Swarm Optimization, Genetic Algorithm, Evolutionary Algorithm, Ant Colony Optimization and other methods, as well as applications in Cloud Computing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Power System and other fields. The development trend will focus on the improvement of convergence, running speed and dynamic characteristics of basic theories such as Artificial Bee Colony, Grey Wolf Optimizer, and Memetic Algorithm.