Variation in Results of Three Biology‐Focused Search Engines: A Case Study Using North American Tree Species

Bettinger, Pete; Merry, Krista; McNulty, Steven G.; Siry, Jacek P.; Gavazzi, Michael

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“…The analysis allowed for identi the leading authors and institutions, the most widely used journals, and the mos quently used keywords (i.e., topics). The network of collaboration between these (41), measurement (41), season (39), role (32), experiment (29), drought (28), scale (27), water (27), function (26), soil (26), treatment (26), development (25), mechanism (25), temperature (24), increase (22), order (22), reduction (22), transpiration (19), water availability (19), ability (18), climate (16), leaf (16), climate change (14), magnitude (14), stomatal conductance (14), winter (14), hypothesis (13), fruit (12), air temperature (11), photosynthesis (11), summer (11), northern Israel (10) 2 Green 18 519 species (78), Israel (73), change (53), pattern (33), vegetation (33), biomass (28), impact (26), interaction (26), species richness (21), composition (20), rainfall (20), habitat (19), Mediterranean (18), landscape (17), environmental condition (15), species composition (...…”

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“…Bibliometric analysis is an established method for assessing the quantitative output of published works [18,19]. For example, publication production trends have been used for forestry-related ranking purposes [20,21]. Publication counts are reflective of the volume of work completed, and have been used as an indicator of productivity for over two centuries [18].…”

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“…Publication counts are reflective of the volume of work completed, and have been used as an indicator of productivity for over two centuries [18]. The number of published works on a subject or by a researcher can infer the importance of the subject or researcher [20]. For individual papers, individual researchers, and journals, citation counts reflect the significance of published works [22], as a citation count reports how many times other published works have acknowledged their contributions.…”

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Research trends in the field of forestry have experienced a significant evolution in recent years. However, there has been little use of bibliometric analyses to assess academic organizations and individual researchers in this field of science. This study investigates the progress of forestry research in Iran, Israel, and Turkey based on a bibliometric analysis of 2482 documents published between 2005 and 2019 and indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) scientific information platform. The countries were analyzed and compared in terms of the number of documents, the number of citations, the mean number of citations per document, the h-index, the share of funded articles, and several other metrics. A complete keyword network with graphical visualization and cluster analysis was also used for depicting the most frequent keywords used by the authors from these three countries. The results showed that the number of publications on forestry research grew steadily during the study period. Turkey, with 1529 documents, was the most active in publishing research in the field of forestry, followed by Iran (726 documents) and Israel (219 documents). Turkey’s publications received 11,220 citations with a cooperation coefficient (CC) of 0.587 that revealed a strong relationship between international collaboration with the USA, Germany, and Italy, and the number of citations, such that the articles with co-authors affiliated to foreign institutions were cited far more often than the articles with Turkish authorship. Although Iran (CC = 0.680) and Israel (CC = 0.706) recorded more activities in international collaboration than Turkey, their publications received much lower citations (Iran’s citations = 4433, Israel’s citations = 3939). Israel had 136 articles (62%) that received research funding, followed by Turkey and Iran with 604 (39%) and 284 (38%) articles. Nine out of the ten most popular journals among Israeli researchers were ranked as quartiles 1 and 2 in the forestry category, whereas Iranian and Turkish researchers mostly published in fewer journals ranked as quartiles 1 and 2. The most frequent keywords (i.e., topics) were species, condition, forest, and tree. Insights provided here can help balance research activities towards publishing more informed and effective scientific articles.

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State of forest research in 2010s – a bibliographic study with special reference to Finland, Sweden and Austria

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Forester Preferences on RevisingSilvics of North America: A Survey of Registered Foresters in Four States

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Silvics of North America (SNA) is a widely used silvicultural manual. However, the last SNA was published in 1990. Therefore, 2,589 registered foresters were surveyed across four US states to answer two broad questions: (1) Should SNA be updated? And (2) would an updated SNA still be a useful tool for forest management? Most respondents indicated that the type and extent of content contained in the previous version of SNA was still desirable today. Aside from updating all sections with recent research findings, expansion was suggested for ecosystem services provided by species. An update to maps provided in SNA, through changes to natural ranges of tree species and other aesthetic improvement, was suggested by most survey respondents. These findings support the conclusion that the SNA would still be an essential source of information if 21st-century issues such as climate change impacts and adaptation measures were included in the update. Study Implications: There have been major changes in the environment and forest science over the past 30 years, but SNA has not been revised to reflect these changes. The results of this survey indicate that an update to SNA is warranted. The results presented here can serve as a guide for a future update of SNA.

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Variation in Results of Three Biology‐Focused Search Engines: A Case Study Using North American Tree Species

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Forestry Research in the Middle East: A Bibliometric Analysis

Forestry Research in the Middle East: A Bibliometric Analysis

State of forest research in 2010s – a bibliographic study with special reference to Finland, Sweden and Austria

Forester Preferences on RevisingSilvics of North America: A Survey of Registered Foresters in Four States

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