Wenhao Meng^*, Kunchang Shen, Qiao An

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School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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Abstract: As an income-based real estate asset securitization innovation born in 1960s, real estate investment trusts now have grown into the fourth important assets allocation choice behind stocks, bonds and cash in the US. With the status of REITs is rising in the investment decisions, the research literature about REITs is increasing either. In order to sort out this research literature effectively, this paper uses the visualization software CiteSpace to analyze the journal articles and references of REITs, which have been embodied by the web of science core collection. Also, this paper attempts to describe the development network and cooperation characteristics in REITs research field, at the same time, we expect this paper can provide ideas and evidence for academia to research REITs further.

Keywords: CiteSpace III, Cooperation Characteristics, Key Literature, REITs

Cite this paper: Meng, W. , Shen, K. and An, Q. (2015) Visual Analysis of Real Estate Investment Trusts Research—A Bibliometric Analysis Based on CiteSpace III. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 5, 794-805. doi: 10.4236/ajibm.2015.512076.

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