A bibliometric study of the trend in articles related to eutrophication published in Science Citation Index

Abstract

A keyword analysis was applied in this work to evaluate research trends of eutrophication papers published between 1991 and 2010 in any journal of all the subject categories of the Science Citation Index compiled by Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA. Eutrophication was used as a keyword to search parts of titles, abstracts, or keywords. The published output analysis showed that eutrophication research steadily increased over the past 20 years and the annual publication output in 2008, 2009, 2010 were about four times that of 1991. The whole paper published by China ranked at 3rd, but these papers' IF were lower than the average of the world. ''Water Framework Directive'' and ''Life Cycle Assessment'' were two of the most frequently used author keywords in the period between 1999 and 2010 whilst they did not appear before 1998. These new conception indicated eutrophication research trend was changing to policy and management from technological researches.

A Bibliometric Study of Scientific Publications regarding Hemicellulose Valorization during the 2000–2016 Period: Identification of Alternatives and Hot Topics

“…The rest of the categories included book chapter (7) and conference paper (7). The percentages obtained were in agreement with the figures that resulted from other bibliometric studies, which reported the clear prevalence of articles over other types of publications in chemical or environmental engineering topics [74,75]. However, in this case, the higher contribution of reviews and the lower contribution of conference papers when compared to the research trends on other topics in these fields should be mentioned [42].…”

Research Trends in Pavement Management during the First Years of the 21st Century: A Bibliometric Analysis during the 2000–2013 Period

“…These percentages were not too concordant with the figures obtained by other bibliometric studies that demonstrated the clear supremacy of articles over other types of publication in other engineering areas, such as environmental or chemical engineering [43][44][45].…”

Scientometric analysis of phosphorus research in eutrophic lakes

“…The other nine categories represented \0.5 % in each item. This distribution pattern of documents types is similar to other bibliometric research in nutrients and eutrophication using the Web of Science database (Gao and Guo 2014;Yi and Jie 2011), which is why articles are most chosen for bibliometric analysis. Considering the representativeness and impact of publications, records from the document types of articles, reviewer, and letter were chosen as data for analysis in this study.…”

“…Top 20 with the most publications was showed in Table 2, accounting for over 90 % of the total publications. It is not a surprise that the USA ranked first in terms of the number of articles, TLCS (total local citations score), and TGCS (total global citations score), which repeats itself many times in other research (Gao and Guo 2014;Ho 2013;Yi and Jie 2011). Another expected phenomenon found in this study is the absolute dominance of developed countries (countries in North America and Europe) in this top productive list.…”

“…More than a decade has passed, publication of the topic has increased by about 85 % in 2013 and we believe analysis of these new outputs is significant to better understand this research area. Another research of interest is conducted by Yi and Jie (2011), who examined a research trend related to eutrophication using a bibliometric method. Since this research mainly focuses on the general eutrophic issues in all aquatic ecosystems, the study of phosphorus in eutrophic lakes is largely unexplored.…”