1. Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis
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Chiyuan Miao, Markus Möller, Cristiano Ballabio, Peter Fiener, Ivan Lizaga Villuendas, Mark A. Nearing, Nikolaos Efthimiou, Jae E. Yang, Christine Alewell, Francesco Gentile, Anna Maria De Girolamo, Aliakbar Nazari Samani, Andreas Gericke, Paulo Tarso Sanches de Oliveira, Amelie Jeanneau, Pablo Alvarez, Konstantinos Kaffas, Diogo Noses Spinola, Marcella Biddoccu, Nejc Bezak, Pasquale Borrelli, Guangju Zhao, Michele Freppaz, Gizaw Desta Gessesse, Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Sergio Saia, Luigi Lombardo, Diana Vieira, Hongfen Teng, Mahboobeh Kiani-Harchegani, Walter W. Chen, Nazzareno Diodato, Changjia Li, Calogero Schillaci, Detlef Deumlich, Shuiqing Yin, Raquel de Castro Portes, Gunay Erpul, Jamil Alexandre Ayach Anache, Laura Quijano, Konstantinos Vantas, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Artemi Cerdà, Mohammed Renima, Sirio Modugno, Laura Poggio, Cristian Valeriu Patriche, Edouard Patault, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Vasileios Syrris, Demetrio Antonio Zema, Jantiene Baartman, Mohammad Reza Rahdari, Michael Maerker, Devraj Chalise, Bifeng Hu, Hyuck Soo Kim, Giovanni Francesco Ricci, Dinesh Panday, Matjaž Mikoš, Stephen Owusu, Panos Panagos, Songchao Chen, Victoria Naipal, Manuel López-Vicente, Resham Thapa, Department of Earth Systems Analysis, UT-I-ITC-4DEarth, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Bezak, N., Mikos, M., Borrelli, P., Alewell, C., Alvarez, P., Anache, J. A. A., Baartman, J., Ballabio, C., Biddoccu, M., Cerda, A., Chalise, D., Chen, S., Chen, W., De Girolamo, A. M., Gessesse, G. D., Deumlich, D., Diodato, N., Efthimiou, N., Erpul, G., Fiener, P., Freppaz, M., Gentile, F., Gericke, A., Haregeweyn, N., Hu, B., Jeanneau, A., Kaffas, K., Kiani-Harchegani, M., Villuendas, I. L., Li, C., Lombardo, L., Lopez-Vicente, M., Lucas-Borja, M. E., Maerker, M., Miao, C., Modugno, S., Moller, M., Naipal, V., Nearing, M., Owusu, S., Panday, D., Patault, E., Patriche, C. V., Poggio, L., Portes, R., Quijano, L., Rahdari, M. R., Renima, M., Ricci, G. F., Rodrigo-Comino, J., Saia, S., Samani, A. N., Schillaci, C., Syrris, V., Kim, H. S., Spinola, D. N., Oliveira, P. T., Teng, H., Thapa, R., Vantas, K., Vieira, D., Yang, J. E., Yin, S., Zema, D. A., Zhao, G., Panagos, P., Slovenian Research Agency, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan), Lizaga Villuendas, Iván [0000-0003-4372-5901], Quijano Gaudes, Laura [0000-0002-2334-2818], Lizaga Villuendas, Iván, Quijano Gaudes, Laura, University of Ljubljana, University of Pavia, Kangwon National University, University of Basel (Unibas), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), National University of Loja, University of São Paulo (USP), FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL CAMPO GRANDE BRA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Ispra] (JRC), Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility ( (STEMS)), National Research Council of Italy, University of Valencia,Valencia, SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND RURAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND ARMIDALE AUS, InfoSol (InfoSol), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), National Taipei University of technology [Taipei] (TAIPEI TECH), National Taipei University of Technology, WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ROME, ITA, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research Muencheberg (ZALF), Met European Research Observatory (MetEROBS), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), University of Ankara, Universität Augsburg [Augsburg], University of Turin, University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA), Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Tottori University, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics (JUFE), University of Adelaide, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Yazd University, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Beijing Normal University (BNU), University of Twente [Netherlands], Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations, University of Leicester, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay), Southwest Watershed Research Center, USDA-ARS : Agricultural Research Service, Soil Research Institute, University of Nebraska [Lincoln], University of Nebraska System, Normandie Université (NU), Romanian Academy, World Soil Information (ISRIC), Minas Gerais State University, Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), University of Torbat Heydarieh, University Hassiba Benbouali of Chlef, Trier University of Applied Sciences, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, University of Tehran, University of Milan, University of Alaska [Fairbanks] (UAF), Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan University [China], University of Maryland [Baltimore], Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Environment and Planning (DAO), Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, and Northwest A and F University
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Research impact ,Calibration (statistics) ,Geography & travel ,Decision tree ,Participatory network ,Agricultural engineering ,[SDV.SA.SDS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study ,010501 environmental sciences ,Participatory modeling ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,Bibliometric ,ITC-HYBRID ,03 medical and health sciences ,Soil ,0302 clinical medicine ,Citation analysis ,Benchmark (surveying) ,Soil erosion modelling ,Systematic literature review ,Agriculture ,Publications ,Bibliometrics ,Soil Erosion ,ddc:550 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,ddc:910 ,WIMEK ,Bodemfysica en Landbeheer ,15. Life on land ,PE&RC ,Bibliographic coupling ,Soil Physics and Land Management ,13. Climate action ,Citation analysi ,ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE ,Erosion ,Environmental science ,Publication ,Scale (map) ,ISRIC - World Soil Information - Abstract
16 Pags.- 12 Figs.- 8 Tabls., Soil erosion can present a major threat to agriculture due to loss of soil, nutrients, and organic carbon. Therefore, soil erosion modelling is one of the steps used to plan suitable soil protection measures and detect erosion hotspots. A bibliometric analysis of this topic can reveal research patterns and soil erosion modelling characteristics that can help identify steps needed to enhance the research conducted in this field. Therefore, a detailed bibliometric analysis, including investigation of collaboration networks and citation patterns, should be conducted. The updated version of the Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker (GASEMT) database contains information about citation characteristics and publication type. Here, we investigated the impact of the number of authors, the publication type and the selected journal on the number of citations. Generalized boosted regression tree (BRT) modelling was used to evaluate the most relevant variables related to soil erosion modelling. Additionally, bibliometric networks were analysed and visualized. This study revealed that the selection of the soil erosion model has the largest impact on the number of publication citations, followed by the modelling scale and the publication's CiteScore. Some of the other GASEMT database attributes such as model calibration and validation have negligible influence on the number of citations according to the BRT model. Although it is true that studies that conduct calibration, on average, received around 30% more citations, than studies where calibration was not performed. Moreover, the bibliographic coupling and citation networks show a clear continental pattern, although the co-authorship network does not show the same characteristics. Therefore, soil erosion modellers should conduct even more comprehensive review of past studies and focus not just on the research conducted in the same country or continent. Moreover, when evaluating soil erosion models, an additional focus should be given to field measurements, model calibration, performance assessment and uncertainty of modelling results. The results of this study indicate that these GASEMT database attributes had smaller impact on the number of citations, according to the BRT model, than anticipated, which could suggest that these attributes should be given additional attention by the soil erosion modelling community. This study provides a kind of bibliographic benchmark for soil erosion modelling research papers as modellers can estimate the influence of their paper., Nejc Bezak and Matjaž Mikoš would like to acknowledge the support of the Slovenian Research Agency through grant P2-0180. Diana Vieira is funded by national funds (OE), through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the framework contract foreseen - DL57/2016 (CDL-CTTRI-97-ARH/2018 - REF.191-97-ARH/2018), and acknowledges CESAM financial support of through (UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/50017/2020). Jae E. Yang and Pasquale Borrelli are funded by the EcoSSSoil Project, Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI), Korea (Grant No. 2019002820004). Walter Chen is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) Research Project (Grant Number MOST 109-2121-M-027-001).
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- 2021
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