applied sciences Article Research Hotspots and Frontiers of Product R&D Management under the Background of the Digital Intelligence Era—Bibliometrics Based on Citespace and Histcite Hongda Liu 1,2, Yuxi Luo 2, Jiejun Geng 3 and Pinbo Yao 2,* 1 School of Economics & Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China;
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[email protected] Abstract: The rise of “cloud-computing, mobile-Internet, Internet of things, big-data, and smart-data” digital technology has brought a subversive revolution to enterprises and consumers’ traditional patterns. Product research and development has become the main battlefield of enterprise compe- Citation: Liu, H.; Luo, Y.; Geng, J.; tition, facing an environment where challenges and opportunities coexist. Regarding the concepts Yao, P. Research Hotspots and and methods of product R&D projects, the domestic start was later than the international ones, and Frontiers of Product R&D many domestic companies have also used successful foreign cases as benchmarks to innovate their Management under the Background management methods in practice. “Workers must first sharpen their tools if they want to do their of the Digital Intelligence jobs well”. This article will start from the relevant concepts of product R&D projects and summarize Era—Bibliometrics Based on current R&D management ideas and methods. We combined the bibliometric analysis software Citespace and Histcite. Appl. Sci. Histcite and Citespace to sort out the content of domestic and foreign literature and explore the 2021, 11, 6759.