A bibliometric analysis of global forest ecology research during 2002-2011.

摘要: Bibliometric is increasingly used for the analysis of discipline dynamics and management related decision-making. This study analyzes 937,923 keywords from 78,986 articles concerning forest ecology conducts a serial these articles’ characteristics. The records, published between 2002 2011, were downloaded Web Science, their exported by Java processing programs. result shows that studies focused on diversity, conservation, vegetation in last decade. Developed countries, such as USA, Canada, Germany, most productive countries field research. From to number annually grew at stable rate, indicated fit produced high determination coefficient (R2 = 0.9955). findings this may be applicable planning managing research partners involved use reference.