Trends in research on global climate change: A Science Citation Index Expanded-based analysis

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 13-20

  Li, Jinfeng ^a   Wang, Ming Huang ^a   Ho, Yuh Shan ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Climate change; Model; Research trend; Word cluster analysis

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; NOVEL METHODS; ONLINE VERSIONS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH PATTERNS; RESEARCH TREND; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT; SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS; WORD CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; RATING; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIBLIOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 79956257394     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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