Mapping of climate change research in the Arab world: a bibliometric analysis

Zyoud, Shaher H.; Fuchs-Hanusch, Daniela

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-07100-y

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“…The current study was the first bibliometric analysis of climate change and food security. Searching Scopus database showed at least 30 bibliometric studies on climate change and a few on food security [28,31,82,83]. However, none was on food security under the umbrella of climate change.…”

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Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature on food security in the context of climate change from 1980 to 2019

Sweileh

2020

Agric & Food Secur

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Background Climate change poses a threat to global food security. Assessing research activity on food security in the presence of climate change is important for policymakers and funding sponsors to make future decisions. The current study aimed to give an overview of research activity on food security in the context of food security. Methodology A bibliometric methodology was implemented using the Scopus database for the period from 1980 to 2019. The search strategy utilized the title/abstract search of keywords related to food security and climate change with certain constraints. Bibliometric indicators, frequent author keywords, research themes, and international research collaboration were presented. Results The search query retrieved 5960 documents. The last decade of the study period witnessed an increasing trend in both the number of publications and the number of cumulative citations. The top five author keywords were climate change, food security, drought, adaptation, agriculture, and water scarcity. Mapping the retrieved documents showed four general research themes: water security, crop yield, food availability, and health. The Sustainability journal ranked first in terms of productivity while documents published in the Global Change Biology journal received the highest number of citations per document. At the country level, the USA ranked first in terms of numbers, India ranked first in terms of research productivity per GDP/capita, and the UK ranked first in terms of the number of citations per document. France and the Netherlands had the highest percentage of documents with international authors while India and China had the least. At the regional level, the European region had the highest contribution and the Eastern Mediterranean region had the least contribution. Half of the top-cited documents in the field were review articles and appeared in prestigious journals. At the institutional level, the active list included three Chinese and two American institutions. Conclusion Food security under the umbrella of climate change is an emerging global challenge. Research on new technologies to mitigate the impact of climate change on food security is a top priority. Research contribution and collaboration from world regions with limited resources should be encouraged.

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“…Bibliometric analysis of publications on climate change has been published [20,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Similarly, bibliometric analysis of publications on food security has been published [32][33][34][35][36][37].…”

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Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature on food security in the context of climate change from 1980 to 2019

Sweileh

2020

Agric & Food Secur

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“…Scopus and Web of Science mainly adopt specific measures and standards in the inclusion of selected sources (Martín-Martín et al 2018 ). The major features that distinguish Scopus database from other databases involve: it has higher flexibility in relation to awarding an inclusive overview on various scientific research fields (Yataganbaba and Kurtbaş 2016 ), and it has robust instruments of search and analysis that help in performing advanced evaluations on the collected data (Zyoud and Fuchs-Hanusch 2020 ).…”

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“…The application of these techniques can be conducted at different scales ranging from micro (i.e., institution levels) to macro (i.e., global levels) (Wallin 2005 ). They are vastly used in different fields of science to assess frontiers of research activities qualitatively and quantitatively (Zhang et al 2020 ; Zheng et al 2017 , 2018 ; Zyoud and Al-Jabi 2020 ; Zyoud and Fuchs-Hanusch 2015 , 2017 , 2020 ).…”

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Coronavirus disease-19 in environmental fields: a bibliometric and visualization mapping analysis

Zyoud

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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A coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus has appeared in China by the end of 2019 and later recognized as a global pandemic. This pandemic has evolved as a global public health menace. It has affected every aspect of human life. In line with these concerns, governments and the scientific community react promptly to the outbreak of this pandemic. These efforts are devoted to develop vaccine and curative medicines. Further efforts are dedicated to assessing the impacts of the pandemic in relation to socioeconomic, psychological, and environmental dimensions. In this regard, it is important to follow up developments and research activities on this global issue. The present work intended to tracking the current hotspots and research trends on COVID-19 in environmental fields. Bibliometric analysis and visualization mapping were utilized with the objective of revealing and evaluating the developments in knowledge on COVID-2019 and its impacts based on a collection of environmental sources. A sum of 729 documents were collected from Scopus database limiting to environmental sources only. Of all these publications, 563 (77.2%) were articles, 56 (7.7%) were reviews, and 110 (15.0%) were others. China has the highest share of publications (163; 22.4%). It is followed by the USA (139; 19.15), and Italy (110; 15.1%). Most publications on COVID-19 were in prestigious journals. The most productive institution at global level was Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (24 documents; 3.3%). The most prevalent topics are in relation to impacts of the pandemic on air quality, mental health, psychological, and economic aspects. The development of these topics is based on cross-sectional studies, evidence-based tools, remote sensing, satellite mapping, geographic information systems, market analysis and sampling. The progress of environmental research on COVID-19 will guide the development of global environmental strategies to control future global environmental risks.

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“…The impact of internet access on cloud computing research in Africa national research trends and outputs, for example Zyoud et al (2017Zyoud et al ( , 2020) performed a bibliometric study on the groundwater and climate change research activities and from the Arab world. In another direction of work, Cai et al (2015) bibliometric-based approach was employed to quantitatively review the trends in global cloud computing research during 2007-2013.…”

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The impact of internet access on cloud computing research in Africa: Analysis of bibliometric and online search data

Ezenwoke

Emebo

2020

COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management

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The objective of this paper is to uncover the relationship between internet penetration and cloud computing research output and to understand the connection between the interest in cloud computing on research outputs in cloud computing from African countries. For the period of 2009 to 2017, bibliometric data on cloud computing research was retrieved from the Scopus database. Online search traffic data on the search term "cloud computing" was obtained from Google trends for the period under review. Our results show that there was a strong significant correlation between internet penetration and the total number of scholarly outputs within the given period for all countries studied, suggesting that an increase in internet penetration is directly proportional to increase in cloud computing research activities and outputs from a given region. The penetration of internet technologies contributes significantly to the advancement of research efforts and scholarly outputs in ICT-related endeavours.

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Mapping of climate change research in the Arab world: a bibliometric analysis

Cited by 39 publications

References 68 publications

Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature on food security in the context of climate change from 1980 to 2019

Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature on food security in the context of climate change from 1980 to 2019

Coronavirus disease-19 in environmental fields: a bibliometric and visualization mapping analysis

The impact of internet access on cloud computing research in Africa: Analysis of bibliometric and online search data

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