To bibliometrically analyze karst-related studies from 1990 to 2016. We collected data, and our findings revealed that the number of documents, authors, research institutes, participant countries, and English references dominant increased for karst-related studies. While geology, water resources, and ecology were leading categories of karst-related studies, environmental earth science karst-related papers were the highest. To quantitatively and qualitatively examine karst-related research documents, we used spatiotemporal, international collaboration, yields, and GDP characteristics to determine global trends in karst-related studies. This study provides quantitatively and qualitatively examine karst-related research documents to determine global trends in karst-related studies and the direction of future studies.

为了对1990年至2016年的岩溶相关研究进行文献计量分析。我们收集了数据，我们的发现显示，与岩溶相关的研究占主导地位的文档，作者，研究机构，参与国和英语参考文献的数量有所增加。地质，水资源和生态学是与喀斯特有关的研究的主要类别，而与环境地球科学有关的与喀斯特有关的论文则最多。为了定量和定性地研究与岩溶有关的研究文件，我们使用时空，国际合作，产量和GDP特征来确定与岩溶有关的研究的全球趋势。这项研究提供了定量和定性检查与岩溶有关的研究文件，以确定与岩溶有关的研究的全球趋势和未来研究的方向。