Status and Trend of Water Transfer Project Research in China Based on Factor Analysis and Social Network Analysis

This paper used China National Knowledge Infrastructure database (CNKI) to analyze the keywords of water transfer project related papers in core journals from 1992 to 2011. Using Ucinet and SPSS software to make factor analysis and social network analysis, the paper discussed the status and frontier of water transfer research. Results are found that the allocation of water resources, water environment impact are the core, and that the tendency of ecological and the institutionalization including the ecological water requirement, ecological compensation, carrying capacity, water safety, water rights, system and so on are much obvious.