Journal article

A scientometric review of water research on the Yangtze river

D Chen, B Bi, ZH Luo, YW Yang, M Webber, B Finlayson

Applied Ecology and Environmental Research | CORVINUS UNIV BUDAPEST | Published : 2018

Abstract

With the traditional literature review, a bibliometric analysis of water research on the Yangtze River from 1996 to 2016 was presented on the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of the Web of Science database. This analysis revealed a quantitative and visual global scientific research review from the aspects of document type and language, publication year, authorship, subject categories and journals, countries or territories and institutions, the most-frequently cited publications, author keywords and research trends. The annual number of publications in this field has rapidly increased over the past decade. The 20 most productive authors w..

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Grants

Awarded by National Key Research and Development Program of China


Awarded by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities


Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This research is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC040320502), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2018B12414), Australian Research Council for Discovery Project Grant (DP170104138) and a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD). We thank the anonymous reviewers and the editors for their constructive comments, which helped us to improve the manuscript.