A Scientometric Analysis of Worldwide Intercropping Research Based on Web of Science Database between 1992 and 2020
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Overview of Publication Trend
3.2. The Co-Authorship of Authors
3.3. The Top Contributed Organizations and Countries
3.4. The Co-Occurrence and Burst Time of Keywords
3.5. The Highly Impacted Publications
3.6. The Widely Utilized Journals
4. Conclusions and Perspectives
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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No. | Author | N | C | C/N | TLS |
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1 | Van Noordwijk, Meine (Wageningen Univ. and Res., Netherlands) | 84 | 2482 | 30 | 353 |
2 | Yang, Wenyu (Sichuan Agr. Univ., China) | 80 | 1091 | 14 | 836 |
3 | Tscharntke, Teja (Univ. Gottingen, Germany) | 73 | 4928 | 68 | 379 |
4 | Nair, Ramachandran P.K. (Univ. Florida, USA) | 70 | 3272 | 47 | 153 |
5 | Zhang, Fusuo (China Agr. Univ., China) | 68 | 4717 | 69 | 366 |
6 | Van Der Werf, Wopke | 64 | 1584 | 25 | 451 |
7 | Li, Long (China Agr. Univ., China) | 51 | 3666 | 72 | 286 |
8 | Ong, Chin K. (World Agroforestry Ctr, Kenya) | 50 | 2011 | 40 | 157 |
9 | Schroth, Goetz (Mars Inc, Brazil) | 48 | 2054 | 43 | 166 |
10 | Jose, Shibu (Univ. Florida, USA) | 46 | 1720 | 37 | 144 |
11 | Udawatta, Ranjith p. (Univ. Missouri, USA) | 46 | 1132 | 25 | 138 |
12 | Yang, Feng (Sichuan Agr. Univ., China) | 46 | 797 | 17 | 520 |
13 | Liu, Weiguo (Sichuan Agr. Univ., China) | 44 | 662 | 15 | 503 |
14 | Isaac, Marney E. (Univ. Toronto, Canada) | 42 | 804 | 19 | 127 |
15 | Vaast, Philippe (Univ. Montpellier, France) | 41 | 913 | 22 | 228 |
16 | Khan, Zeyaur R. (Int. Ctr. Insect Physiol. and Ecol. ICIPE, Kenya) | 40 | 1842 | 46 | 192 |
17 | Yong, Taiwen (Sichuan Agr. Univ., China) | 40 | 702 | 18 | 425 |
18 | Chai, Qiang (Gansu Agr. Univ., China) | 37 | 501 | 14 | 229 |
19 | Anderson, Stephen H. (Univ. Missouri, USA) | 33 | 830 | 25 | 103 |
20 | Liu, Jiang (Sichuan Agr. Univ., China) | 31 | 392 | 13 | 367 |
21 | Du, Junbo (Sichuan Agr. Univ., China) | 30 | 455 | 15 | 369 |
22 | Wang, Xiaochun (Sichuan Agr. Univ., China) | 29 | 467 | 16 | 351 |
23 | Casas, Alejandro (Univ. Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico) | 28 | 382 | 14 | 134 |
24 | Yu, Aizhong (Gansu Agr. Univ., China) | 27 | 347 | 13 | 185 |
25 | Clough, Yann (Lund Univ., Sweden) | 26 | 1384 | 53 | 153 |
No. | Organizations | N | C | C/N | TLS |
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1 | World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) | 326 | 6638 | 20 | 11,988 |
2 | Chinese Academy of Science, China | 307 | 5694 | 19 | 4736 |
3 | INRA | 260 | 7756 | 30 | 10,390 |
4 | China Agriculture University, China | 217 | 6753 | 31 | 11,651 |
5 | University of Gottingen, Germany | 213 | 8946 | 42 | 8794 |
6 | University of Florida, USA | 203 | 6973 | 34 | 6953 |
7 | CIRAD, France | 200 | 4060 | 20 | 9898 |
8 | Wageningen University, Netherlands | 170 | 3913 | 23 | 7167 |
9 | University of Missouri, USA | 155 | 4966 | 32 | 3466 |
10 | INT INST TROP AGRICULTURE | 146 | 3132 | 21 | 2548 |
11 | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden | 137 | 4013 | 29 | 3705 |
12 | Sichuan Agriculture University, China | 132 | 1597 | 12 | 4667 |
13 | University Fed Vicosa, Brazil | 130 | 1632 | 13 | 2013 |
14 | USDA ARS, USA | 129 | 2529 | 20 | 1715 |
15 | University of Montpellier, France | 121 | 597 | 5 | 5495 |
16 | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | 118 | 2114 | 18 | 3363 |
17 | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | 113 | 969 | 9 | 2198 |
18 | Cornell University, USA | 111 | 3011 | 27 | 1906 |
19 | University of Hohenheim, Germany | 110 | 1538 | 14 | 2439 |
20 | CATIE, Costa Rica | 105 | 2726 | 26 | 6384 |
21 | University of Chinese Academy of Science, China | 102 | 697 | 7 | 1891 |
22 | University of California Davis, USA | 95 | 3332 | 35 | 1745 |
23 | CSIC, Spain | 93 | 1954 | 21 | 1086 |
24 | University of Guelph, Canada | 93 | 1843 | 20 | 2683 |
25 | Michigan State University, USA | 91 | 2461 | 27 | 1835 |
No. | Country | N | C | C/N | TLS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | USA | 2468 | 69,554 | 28 | 35,512 |
2 | India | 1470 | 12,969 | 9 | 7980 |
3 | China | 1437 | 22,546 | 16 | 19,372 |
4 | Brazil | 1164 | 13,375 | 11 | 11,395 |
5 | Germany | 974 | 25,029 | 26 | 21,538 |
6 | France | 868 | 20,675 | 24 | 21,936 |
7 | UK | 790 | 26,838 | 34 | 18,296 |
8 | Canada | 654 | 15,851 | 24 | 10,147 |
9 | Kenya | 648 | 16,183 | 25 | 16,973 |
10 | Australia | 586 | 16,203 | 28 | 11,515 |
11 | Spain | 527 | 8921 | 17 | 7458 |
12 | Netherlands | 414 | 10,429 | 25 | 11,495 |
13 | Italy | 347 | 7366 | 21 | 6614 |
14 | Mexico | 323 | 6955 | 22 | 5087 |
15 | Indonesia | 316 | 9116 | 29 | 9201 |
16 | Nigeria | 310 | 5196 | 17 | 2495 |
17 | Switzerland | 250 | 6754 | 27 | 8366 |
18 | Denmark | 240 | 6674 | 28 | 6322 |
19 | Sweden | 234 | 6354 | 27 | 5491 |
20 | South Africa | 233 | 6098 | 26 | 4042 |
21 | Belgium | 218 | 4175 | 19 | 4311 |
22 | Japan | 213 | 3182 | 15 | 2373 |
23 | Ethiopia | 212 | 2266 | 11 | 3851 |
24 | Pakistan | 195 | 1795 | 9 | 2915 |
25 | Costa Rica | 194 | 5461 | 28 | 7875 |
No. | Keyword | Occurrences | TLS |
---|---|---|---|
1 | agroforestry | 2634 | 11,594 |
2 | intercropping | 1547 | 6685 |
3 | management | 1515 | 8201 |
4 | growth | 1386 | 6921 |
5 | yield | 1237 | 6292 |
6 | systems | 1040 | 5623 |
7 | biodiversity | 1031 | 5798 |
8 | maize | 985 | 5202 |
9 | nitrogen | 983 | 5732 |
10 | diversity | 953 | 4963 |
11 | conservation | 886 | 4567 |
12 | soil | 859 | 4336 |
13 | productivity | 721 | 4144 |
14 | forest | 686 | 3623 |
15 | dynamics | 654 | 3677 |
16 | agroforestry systems | 633 | 3128 |
17 | competition | 616 | 3446 |
18 | biomass | 587 | 3237 |
19 | wheat | 500 | 2889 |
20 | quality | 492 | 2522 |
21 | trees | 474 | 2326 |
22 | agriculture | 453 | 2563 |
23 | land-use | 449 | 2512 |
24 | carbon | 440 | 2482 |
25 | ecosystem services | 435 | 2460 |
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Lv, W.; Zhao, X.; Wu, P.; Lv, J.; He, H. A Scientometric Analysis of Worldwide Intercropping Research Based on Web of Science Database between 1992 and 2020. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2430. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052430
Lv W, Zhao X, Wu P, Lv J, He H. A Scientometric Analysis of Worldwide Intercropping Research Based on Web of Science Database between 1992 and 2020. Sustainability. 2021; 13(5):2430. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052430
Chicago/Turabian StyleLv, Wen, Xining Zhao, Pute Wu, Jialong Lv, and Hailong He. 2021. "A Scientometric Analysis of Worldwide Intercropping Research Based on Web of Science Database between 1992 and 2020" Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2430. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052430