First Appraisal of the Current Structure of Research on Land and Soil Degradation as Evidenced by Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Desertification

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 413-422

  Escadafal, Richard ^a   Barbero Sierra, Celia ^b   Exbrayat, Williams ^c   Marques, Maria Jose ^b   Akhtar Schuster, Mariam ^d   El Haddadi, Anass ^e   Ruiz, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e Ensah   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Desertification; Land degradation; Soil degradation; Text mining; UNCCD

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FILTRATION; SOILS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; DESERTIFICATION; LAND DEGRADATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; UNCCD;

TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING; DESERTIFICATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE; SOFTWARE; SOIL DEGRADATION;

EID: 84935688302     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2351     Document Type: Article

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