| Trends and potential cautions in food web research from a bibliometric analysis | |
| Tao, Juan1,2,3; Che, Rongxiao2,4; He, Dekui1; Yan, Yunzhi5,6; Sui, Xiaoyun1; Chen, Yifeng1 | |
| 2015-10-01 | |
| Source Publication | SCIENTOMETRICS
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| ISSN | 0138-9130 |
| Volume | 105Issue:1Pages:435-447 |
| Abstract | Understanding food webs is important and useful for planning environmental conservation, management and restoration. However, research on food webs is not uniform globally; it tends to be concentrated in specific areas or ecosystem types, and would hinder our understanding of food webs and ecosystem processes. This study examined the trends in food web research over the past decades by analysing publication data from Web of Science; in particular, it focused on the ecosystem types studied, countries in which the studies were done, and which countries collaborated on the studies. A total of 20,239 publications were examined. The results showed that research on food webs has dramatically increased since the 1990s. Most publications related focused on aquatic ecosystems. North American and European countries contributed much more in terms of research productivity than those from Africa and South America. Collaboration among individual authors and countries has become increasingly intensive. The USA and Canada were consistently the top two productive countries, and had the most frequent collaborations. Our study indicates that food webs from ecosystems other than aquatic ones, such as terrestrial ecosystems, also require more attention in the future; in particular those that exist within countries from Africa and South America. |
| Subtype | Article |
| Keyword | Global Change Anthropogenic Activities Ecosystems Collaboration Stable Isotope |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11192-015-1679-2 |
| WOS Headings | Science & Technology ; Technology |
| Indexed By | SCI ; SSCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Research Area | Computer Science ; Information Science & Library Science |
| WOS Subject | Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Information Science & Library Science |
| WOS ID | WOS:000361992800028 |
| WOS Keyword | STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS ; REAL DIFFERENCES ; GLOBAL CHANGE ; ECOSYSTEM ; CONSEQUENCES ; CONSERVATION ; ECOLOGY ; OUTPUT ; SCALE |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/handle/342005/27263 |
| Collection | 水生生物多样性与资源保护研究中心_期刊论文 |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Biol Invas & Adapt Evolut, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Griffith Univ, Australian Rivers Inst, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia 4.Griffith Univ, Environm Futures Res Inst, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia 5.Anhui Normal Univ, Prov Key Lab Biot Environm & Ecol Safety Anhui, Wuhu 241000, Peoples R China 6.Anhui Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Wuhu 241000, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tao, Juan,Che, Rongxiao,He, Dekui,et al. Trends and potential cautions in food web research from a bibliometric analysis[J]. SCIENTOMETRICS,2015,105(1):435-447. |
| APA | Tao, Juan,Che, Rongxiao,He, Dekui,Yan, Yunzhi,Sui, Xiaoyun,&Chen, Yifeng.(2015).Trends and potential cautions in food web research from a bibliometric analysis.SCIENTOMETRICS,105(1),435-447. |
| MLA | Tao, Juan,et al."Trends and potential cautions in food web research from a bibliometric analysis".SCIENTOMETRICS 105.1(2015):435-447. |
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