Climate Change, Agriculture, and Energy Transition: What Do the Thirty Most-Cited Articles Tell Us?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Bibliographical Survey
2.1. Methodological Remarks
2.2. Selection of Articles
2.3. Basic Characteristics of the Articles
3. Relevance to Energy Transition
4. General Research Themes and Key Findings
5. Discussion
5.1. General Vision
5.2. Utlity of the Most-Cited Articles
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Article | Year | Number of Citations in Scopus (as of 7 July 2020) | Number of Authors | Number of Countries from the Authors’ Affiliations | |
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Total | Average Annual | ||||
[20] | 2010 | 1026 | 114 | 3 | 1 (UK) |
[21] | 2005 | 2079 | 149 | 33 | 9 (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, USA) |
[22] | 2009 | 1126 | 113 | 28 | 1 (UK) |
[23] | 1997 | 1474 | 67 | 3 | 2 (UK, USA) |
[24] | 2008 | 2585 | 235 | 5 | 1 (USA) |
[25] | 2005 | 6071 | 434 | 19 | 2 (UK, USA) |
[26] | 2011 | 3017 | 377 | 21 | 4 (Canada, Germany, Sweden, USA) |
[27] | 2007 | 1128 | 94 | 6 | 1 (France) |
[28] | 2010 | 4613 | 513 | 10 | 1 (UK) |
[29] | 2003 | 1082 | 68 | 7 | 1 (Switzerland) |
[30] | 2003 | 1252 | 78 | 2 | 1 (USA) |
[31] | 2004 | 3360 | 224 | 1 | 1 (USA) |
[32] | 2004 | 1669 | 111 | 1 | 1 (USA) |
[33] | 2003 | 1332 | 83 | 3 | 1 (Belgium) |
[34] | 2008 | 1497 | 136 | 6 | 1 (USA) |
[35] | 2011 | 1606 | 201 | 3 | 1 (USA) |
[36] | 2010 | 3113 | 346 | 3 | 1 (Portugal) |
[37] | 2004 | 1012 | 67 | 5 | 4 (Austria, Spain, UK, USA) |
[38] | 2004 | 1255 | 84 | 9 | 2 (China, Philippines) |
[39] | 2010 | 1564 | 174 | 16 | 3 (China, France, UK) |
[40] | 2010 | 2324 | 258 | 6 | 4 (Germany, Switzerland, UK, USA) |
[41] | 1999 | 1196 | 60 | 2 | 1 (USA) |
[42] | 2009 | 1850 | 185 | 29 | 8 (Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK, USA) |
[43] | 2009 | 4608 | 461 | 29 | 8 (Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK, USA) |
[44] | 1994 | 1033 | 41 | 2 | 2 (UK, USA) |
[45] | 2009 | 1079 | 108 | 2 | 1 (USA) |
[46] | 2005 | 1060 | 76 | 35 | 11 (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA) |
[47] | 2010 | 1767 | 196 | 8 | 1 (Switzerland) |
[48] | 2001 | 2203 | 122 | 10 | 1 (USA) |
[49] | 2011 | 2435 | 304 | 4 | 1 (USA) |
Journal | Number of Articles | Bibliometrics (for 2019) | |||
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Web of Science | Scopus | ||||
Impact Factor | Quartile | CiteScore | Quartile | ||
Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 | 8.065 | 1 | 15.8 | 1 |
Annual Review of Plant Biology | 1 | 19.54 | 1 | 32.8 | 1 |
Ecology and Society | 1 | 3.89 | 1 | 7.5 | 1 |
Earth-Science Reviews | 1 | 9.724 | 1 | 15.0 | 1 |
Geoderma | 1 | 4.848 | 1 | 7.6 | 1 |
Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 1 | 4.608 | 1 | 9.4 | 1 |
Global Environmental Change | 1 | 10.466 | 1 | 17.0 | 1 |
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | 1 | 4.307 | 1, 2 | 8.5 | 1 |
Nature | 7 | 42.778 | 1 | 51.0 | 1 |
Plant and Soil | 1 | 3.299 | 1, 2 | 5.9 | 1 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 3 | 9.412 | 1 | 15.7 | 1 |
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 1 | 12.11 | 1 | 25.5 | 1 |
Science | 8 | 41.845 | 1 | 45.3 | 1 |
The Lancet | 1 | 60.392 | 1 | 73.4 | 1 |
Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 14.764 | 1 | 22.3 | 1 |
Abbreviation | Theme | Topic | Number of Articles |
---|---|---|---|
T1 | Technologies (approaches, working schemes, procedures, etc.) | T1.1. Technologies addressing climate change and agriculture | 5 |
T1.2. Technologies addressing agriculture | 2 | ||
T2 | Links (what influences on what) | T.2.1. Climate change interacts with agriculture | 3 |
T.2.2. Agriculture influences on climate change | 6 | ||
T.2.3. Climate change influences on agriculture | 9 | ||
T.2.4. Linking through general frame | 4 | ||
T.2.5. Joint action of climate change and agriculture | 1 | ||
T3 | Adaptations (pragmatic vision of the problem) | T3.1. Incentives | 1 |
Article | Theme | Topic | Relevance to the Agriculture–Climate Change Relationship |
---|---|---|---|
[20] | T1 | T1.1 | High |
[21] | T2 | T2.1 | High |
[22] | T1 | T1.2 | Low |
[23] | T2 | T2.1 | Medium |
[24] | T1 | T1.1 | High |
[25] | T2 | T2.2 | Medium |
[26] | T1 | T1.2 | High |
[27] | T2 | T2.2 | Low |
[28] | T2 | T2.3 | Low |
[29] | T2 | T2.4 | Low |
[30] | T2 | T2.2 | Low |
[31] | T1 | T1.1 | High |
[32] | T1 | T1.1 | High |
[33] | T2 | T2.5 | Medium |
[34] | T3 | T3.1 | High |
[35] | T2 | T2.3 | High |
[36] | T1 | T1.1 | Low |
[37] | T2 | T2.3 | High |
[38] | T2 | T2.3 | High |
[39] | T2 | T2.3 | High |
[40] | T2 | T2.3 | Medium |
[41] | T2 | T2.2 | Medium |
[42] | T2 | T2.4 | Low |
[43] | T2 | T2.4 | Low |
[44] | T2 | T2.3 | High |
[45] | T2 | T2.3 | High |
[46] | T2 | T2.4 | Low |
[47] | T2 | T2.3 | Medium |
[48] | T2 | T2.2 | Medium |
[49] | T2 | T2.2 | High |
Topic | Some Findings | Literature Sources | Year of Publishing; Total Number of Citations |
---|---|---|---|
Livestock farming and climate change | Negative effects on animal husbandry with negative socio-economic effects (e.g., increase in food price) | [71] | 2020; 1 |
Climate change and distribution of agricultural products | European meat and dairy supply chains are linked to greenhouse gas emissions | [72] | 2020; 1 |
Climate change–agriculture interactions as challenge to local communities and labor force | High percentages of labor forces employed in agriculture of an Australian region as a driver of local vulnerability to climate change | [73] | 2018; 0 |
Economical and political aspects of climate-friendly agricultural innovations | The Climate-Smart Agriculture Prioritization Framework (CSA-PF) in Mali as example of successful adaptation scheme | [74] | 2017; 25 |
Agricultural opportunities due to climate change | Extending potential for wheat cultivation and higher wheat yields in some areas of Russia | [75] | 2018; 6 |
Tax policy modification in regard to agriculture and climate change | Nitrogen tax implementation in Germany; more generally, new taxes in the face of new challenges, similarly to raising new taxes together with Internet service growth | [76] (see also [77] for general reference) | 2020; 0 |
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Ruban DA, Yashalova NN, Cherednichenko OA, Dovgot’ko NA. Climate Change, Agriculture, and Energy Transition: What Do the Thirty Most-Cited Articles Tell Us? Sustainability. 2020; 12(19):8015. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198015
Chicago/Turabian StyleRuban, Dmitry A., Natalia N. Yashalova, Olga A. Cherednichenko, and Natalya A. Dovgot’ko. 2020. "Climate Change, Agriculture, and Energy Transition: What Do the Thirty Most-Cited Articles Tell Us?" Sustainability 12, no. 19: 8015. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198015