A bibliometric analysis of research related to ocean circulation

This study is a bibliometric analysis on ocean circulation-related research for the period 1991-2005. Selected documents included "ocean circulation, sea circulation, seas circulation, marine circulation, and circulation ocean" as a part of the title, abstract or keywords

A bibliometric analysis of research related to ocean circulation

[[abstract]]This study is a bibliometric analysis on ocean circulation-related research for the period 1991-2005. Selected documents included "ocean circulation, sea circulation, seas circulation, marine circulation, and circulation ocean" as a part of the title, abstract or keywords. Analyzed parameters included the document type, the article output, the article distribution in journals, the publication activity of countries, and institutes and the authorship. An indicator, citation per publication (CPP) was applied to evaluate the scientific impact of a publication. The relationship between cumulative articles and the year was modeled. Three dominant categories were picked out, and their output increase was modeled. The USA was found to be leading the research with 47% share of total articles, with a CPP up to 5.9. Woods Hole Oceanography Institute in the USA was the most productive institute with a CPP of 6.8. In the citation analysis, a 5th year citation mode was found. A paper life model was applied to compare the cumulative citations increasing rates of different years

Climate Change Research in View of Bibliometrics

This bibliometric study of a large publication set dealing with research on climate change aims at mapping the relevant literature from a bibliometric perspective and presents a multitude of quantitative data: (1) The growth of the overall publication output as well as (2) of some major subfields, (3) the contributing journals and countries as well as their citation impact, and (4) a title word analysis aiming to illustrate the time evolution and relative importance of specific research topics. The study is based on 222,060 papers published between 1980 and 2014. The total number of papers shows a strong increase with a doubling every 5-6 years. Continental biomass related research is the major subfield, closely followed by climate modeling. Research dealing with adaptation, mitigation, risks, and vulnerability of global warming is comparatively small, but their share of papers increased exponentially since 2005. Research on vulnerability and on adaptation published the largest proportion of very important papers. Research on climate change is quantitatively dominated by the USA, followed by the UK, Germany, and Canada. The citation-based indicators exhibit consistently that the UK has produced the largest proportion of high impact papers compared to the other countries (having published more than 10,000 papers). The title word analysis shows that the term climate change comes forward with time. Furthermore, the term impact arises and points to research dealing with the various effects of climate change. Finally, the term model and related terms prominently appear independent of time, indicating the high relevance of climate modeling.Comment: 40 pages, 6 figures, and 4 table

Explaining international co-authorship in global environmental change research

This paper maps the domain of earth and environmental sciences (EES) and investigates the relationship between cognitive problem structures and internationalisation patterns, drawing on the concepts of systemic versus cumulative global environmental change (GEC) and mutual task dependence in scientific fields. We find that scientific output concentration and internationalisation are significantly higher in the systemic GEC fields of Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography than in the cumulative GEC fields Ecology and Water Resources. The relationship is explained by stronger mutual task dependence in systemic GEC fields. In contrast, the portion of authorships with developing, emerging and transition countries among all international publications is larger for Water Resources than for three other fields, consistent with the most pressing needs for STI capacity development in these countries. --

Current trends in scientific research on global warming: a bilbiometric analysis

[EN] The objective of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the scientific knowledge in global warming, as well as to investigate the evolution of the research knowledge through the published papers included in Web of Science database. A bibliometric and social network analyses was performed to obtain indicators of scientific productivity, impact and collaboration between researchers, institutions and countries. A subject analysis was also carried out taking into account the key words assigned to papers and subject areas of journals. A number of 1,672 articles were analysed since 2005 until 2014. The most productive journals were Journal of Climate (n = 95) and the most frequent keyword have been climate change (n = 722). The network of collaboration between countries shows the central position of the USA. Papers on the topic are published in a vast amount of journals from several subject categories. KeywordsAleixandre-Tudó, JL.; Bolaños-Pizarro, M.; Aleixandre, JL.; Aleixandre-Benavent, R. (2019). Current trends in scientific research on global warming: a bilbiometric analysis. International Journal of Global Warming. 17(2):142-169. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2019.097858 DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2019.10019213S14216917

Mapping Australian geophysics: a co-heading analysis

Todorov R, Winterhager M. Mapping Australian geophysics: a co-heading analysis. Scientometrics. 1989;19(1-2):35-56.Descriptive capacities of a new bibliometric method, namely co-heading analysis, are investigated. The method uses the appearance and co-appearance of classification subdivisions (headings) in the document records of 1988 INSPEC database to display correspondingly the main topics of Australian geophysics and their links. The findings, in the form of inclusion maps (resulting from multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis) provide new insights into geophysics national activity and into its structure

Bibliometrijska analiza publikacija o Jadranu te jadranskoj oceanografiji i meteorologiji

This paper aims to quantify the productivity of research concerning the Adriatic Sea, with a focus on oceanography and meteorology. Productivity and impact were measured by analysing articles and citations from the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database, spanning the period 1994–2008. The most productive country was Italy but the highest number of citations was achieved by articles from Germany (all Adriatic publications) and Spain ("Oceanography" and "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences", only). By contrast, the second-most productive country, Croatia, had the lowest citation rate. Collaborations between Adriatic researchers were driven not only by the geographical position of a country (e.g., Italy vs. Croatia), but also by investment rates in Adriatic research (e.g., Italy vs. USA and Croatia vs. USA). Such collaborations substantially improved the impact of the research, especially from transitional countries such as Croatia.U radu se analizira znanstvena produkcija o Jadranu, sa naglaskom na jadransku oceanografiju i meteorologiju. Znanstvena produktivnost mjerena je analizom objavljenih publikacija i njihovih citata u bazi publikacija Thomson Reuters Web of Science u razdoblju 1994–2008. Najproduktivnija zemlja je Italija, no najbolju citiranost su postigle publikacije iz Njemačke (sve jadranske publikacije) i Španjolske (publikacije iz jadranske oceanografije i meteorologije). Druga zemlja po znanstvenoj produkciji, Hrvatska, ima najslabije citirane publikacije. Suradnja jadranskih istraživanja u smislu zajedničkih publikacija nije posljedica geografskog položaja pojedinih zemalja (npr. Italija i Hrvatska), već je prvenstveno posljedica uloženih investicija u istraživanje Jadrana (npr. Italija i SAD, Hrvatska i SAD). Zajedničke publikacije su značajno poboljšale vidljivost (citiranost) provedenih istraživanja, naročito publikacija tranzicijskih zemalja kao što je Hrvatska

Marine mammal research in South America: 30 years of publication efforts and collaborative networks

A notable diversity of marine mammals inhabits the Atlantic and Pacific waters of South America. For decades, South American countries have been producing scientific research focused on these species. However, still, there is no systematic assessment of the magnitude and main subjects on which this research has been focused. This study analyzes the trends and patterns in scientific research on marine mammals in South America, evaluating a pool of bibliometric indicators and mapping collaborative relationships among countries, authors, and research areas. Academic documents were retrieved from two bibliographic databases: SCOPUS and SciELO, from 1990 to 2020. Results showed a gradual increase in publications along the three study decades. Brazil played a central role in the number of publications in both databases, followed by Argentina and Chile. The South American publications on marine mammals were centralized in a small number of journals, and few authors were responsible for a large proportion of contributions. The authors showed a moderate level of collaboration, mainly reflecting stronger links among neighbor countries, including co-authorships with North American and European countries. The most frequent keywords reflected three clusters centered in taxonomic groups (Cetacea, Odontoceti, and Pinnipedia) and two centered in research subjects (pollution and phylogenetics). The scope of the contributions differed among collections. Nevertheless, both databases were complementary and contributed to show marine mammals' research in South America