Assessing ecological restoration as a research topic using bibliometric indicators

Romanelli, João Paulo; Fujimoto, Jaqueline Tomiê; Ferreira, Marcilene Dantas; Milanez, Douglas Henrique

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.06.015

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“…In bibliometric study, keyword analysis are commonly used to analyze the trend of a specific research area, and frequency are often used as the only criteria to quantify keyword popularity (Aleixandre-Benavent et al 2018, Romanelli et al 2018, Yin et al 2018). After the calculation of frequency, keywords are ranked and the top keywords are selected to reflect the research hotspots.…”

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“…In bibliometric studies, keyword analysis, as core content summary of articles, has long been used to identify research focus in ecological disciplines (Budilova et al 1997; Liu et al 2011; Song & Zhao 2013; Stork & Astrin 2014; Wang et al 2015; Romanelli et al 2018). Author keywords contain information that authors consider as most concerned and relevant to their studies, and high-frequency keywords are deemed to reflect the hot issues, and could be used to reveal the research trends (Li et al 2011; Li et al 2017; Yang et al 2017; Yin et al 2018).…”

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Measuring popularity of ecological topics in a temporal dynamical knowledge network

Huang

Zhao

2018

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15As interdisciplinary branches of ecology are developing rapidly in the 21 st 16 century, contents of ecological researches have become more abundant 17 than ever before. Along with the exponential growth of number of 18 published literature, it is more and more difficult for ecologists to get a 19 clear picture of their discipline. Nevertheless, the era of big data has 20 brought us massive information of well documented historical literature 21 and various techniques of data processing, which greatly facilitates the 22 implementation of bibliometric analysis on ecology. Frequency has long 23 been used as the primary metric in keyword analysis to detect ecological 24 hotspots, however, this method could be somewhat biased. In our study, 25 we have suggested a method called PAFit to measure keyword popularity, 26 which considered ecology-related topics in a large temporal dynamical 27 knowledge network, and found out the popularity of ecological topics 28 follows the "rich get richer" and "fit get richer" mechanism. Feasibility of 29 network analysis and its superiority over simply using frequency had been 30 explored and justified, and PAFit was testified by its outstanding 31 performance of prediction on the growth of frequency and degree. In 32 addition, our research also encourages ecologists to consider their domain 33 knowledge in a large dynamical network, and be ready to participate in 34 interdisciplinary collaborations when necessary. 3 35

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Measuring popularity of ecological topics in a temporal dynamical knowledge network

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2018

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“…com/). The database is often used in the development of academic and bibliometric studies (AZEVEDO et al, 2005;BOANARES;AZEVEDO, 2014;ROMANELLI et al, 2018). It was used two sets of data, which were CERNE ROMANELLI AND BOSCHI retrieved by different search strategies in WoS.…”

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“…These searches were designated as first search and second search ( Figure 1). Only articles and reviews were considered in this analysis since they represent the majority of documents with complete research results (FU et al, 2013;ROMANELLI et al, 2018). Datasets were downloaded on February, 2019February, .…”

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The Legacy of Elinor Ostrom on Common Forests Research Assessed Through Bibliometric Analysis

Romanelli

Boschi

2019

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Is the methodology used in reviews of restoration outcomes reliable? A systematic map protocol

Romanelli

Boschi

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1. Over the past decades, evidence-based research has become increasingly important in restoration ecology. Evidence synthesis can be a powerful tool to identify the most effective strategies to conserve and restore ecosystems. However, reviews in the environmental sector have been described as non-systematic and exhibit a diverse range of approaches. While it is known that environmental syntheses can substantially improve in quality, the reliability of restoration reviews (i.e. the level of confidence an end-user may place in their methodology) remains poorly known. 2. Given the importance of literature reviews of restoration practice and outcomes for informing management and policy, as well as research, this systematic map protocol aims to scrutinize the peer-reviewed literature for an assessment of the methodological reliability and reproducibility of restoration reviews. We will use bibliographic databases and search engines to collect studies published in peer-reviewed journals dealing with the ecological restoration of terrestrial ecosystems. 3. Through a scoping exercise, a search string was developed which was based on a previously prepared test list. The search string was then tested for validity with one independent reference list. After searching, the screening process will be done on the title, abstract and full-text level and consistency checking will be done on a random subsample by a second assessor, with decisions being compared using the kappa test of agreement. After retrieving studies and checking for relevance to the synthesis, we will appraise the methodological reliability of restoration reviews by applying the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Assessment Tool-CEESAT. Lastly, we will collect bibliometric information to qualitatively describe the retrieved body of literature, and then key trends in data will be synthesized according to a range of generic questions. 4. To conduct the resulting review, we will follow the procedures specified in this protocol, considering guidelines from the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence and ROSES form. The resulting review will yield a useful overview of applying systematic reviews principles for various end users. At the same time, it will help restoration This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Assessing ecological restoration as a research topic using bibliometric indicators

Cited by 90 publications

References 56 publications

Measuring popularity of ecological topics in a temporal dynamical knowledge network

Measuring popularity of ecological topics in a temporal dynamical knowledge network

The Legacy of Elinor Ostrom on Common Forests Research Assessed Through Bibliometric Analysis

Is the methodology used in reviews of restoration outcomes reliable? A systematic map protocol

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