Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis

Nejc Bezak¹, Matjaž Mikoš², Pasquale Borrelli³, Christine Alewell⁴, Pablo Alvarez⁵, Jamil Alexandre Ayach Anache⁶, Jantiene Baartman⁷, Cristiano Ballabio⁸, Marcella Biddoccu⁹, Artemi Cerdà¹⁰, Devraj Chalise¹¹, Songchao Chen¹², Walter Chen¹³, Anna Maria De Girolamo¹⁴, Gizaw Desta Gessesse¹⁵, Detlef Deumlich¹⁶, Nazzareno Diodato¹⁷, Nikolaos Efthimiou¹⁸, Gunay Erpul¹⁹, Peter Fiener²⁰, Michele Freppaz²¹, Francesco Gentile²², Andreas Gericke²³, Nigussie Haregeweyn²⁴, Bifeng Hu²⁵, Amelie Jeanneau²⁶, Konstantinos Kaffas²⁷, Mahboobeh Kiani-Harchegani²⁸, Ivan Lizaga Villuendas²⁹, Changjia Li³⁰, Luigi Lombardo³¹, Manuel López-Vicente³², Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja³³, Michael Maerker³⁴, Chiyuan Miao³⁵, Sirio Modugno³⁶, Markus Möller³⁷, Victoria Naipal³⁸, Mark Nearing³⁹, Stephen Owusu⁴⁰, Dinesh Panday⁴¹, Edouard Patault⁴², Cristian Valeriu Patriche⁴³, Laura Poggio⁴⁴, Raquel Portes⁴⁵, Laura Quijano⁴⁶, Mohammad Reza Rahdari⁴⁷, Mohammed Renima⁴⁸, Giovanni Francesco Ricci²², Jesús Rodrigo-Comino⁴⁹, Sergio Saia⁵⁰, Aliakbar Nazari Samani⁵¹, Calogero Schillaci⁵², Vasileios Syrris⁸, Hyuck Soo Kim⁵³, Diogo Noses Spinola⁵⁴, Paulo Tarso Oliveira⁵⁵, Hongfen Teng⁵⁶, Resham Thapa⁵⁷, Konstantinos Vantas⁵⁸, Diana Vieira⁵⁹, Jae E Yang⁵³, Shuiqing Yin³⁵, Demetrio Antonio Zema⁶⁰, Guangju Zhao⁶¹, Panos Panagos⁸

Affiliations

¹ University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Electronic address: nejc.bezak@fgg.uni-lj.si.
² University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
³ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy; Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, CH-4056, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, CH-4056, Switzerland.
⁵ Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, National University of Loja, Ecuador.
⁶ Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC), University of São Paulo (USP), CxP. 359, São Carlos, SP, 13566-590, Brazil; Federal University of Mato Grosso Do Sul, CxP. 549, Campo Grande, MS, 79070-900, Brazil.
⁷ Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
⁸ European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
⁹ Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Strada Delle Cacce 73, 10135, Torino, Italy.
¹⁰ Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
¹¹ School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia.
¹² INRAE, Unité InfoSol, Orléans, 45075, France.
¹³ Department of Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
¹⁴ Water Research Institute-National Research Council, Bari, Italy.
¹⁵ International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Ethiopia.
¹⁶ Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research Muencheberg (ZALF), Germany.
¹⁷ Met European Research Observatory-International Affiliates Program of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Via Monte Pino Snc, 82100, Benevento, Italy.
¹⁸ Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha - Suchdol, 165 00, Czech Republic.
¹⁹ Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ankara, 06110, Diskapi-Ankara, Turkey.
²⁰ Water and Soil Resources Research Group, Institute of Geography, Universität Augsburg, Alter Postweg 118, 86159, Augsburg, Germany.
²¹ University of Turin, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Largo Paolo Braccini, 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Italy.
²² University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Bari, Italy.
²³ Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (FV-IGB), Department of Ecohydrology, 12587, Berlin, Germany.
²⁴ International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University, Tottori, 680-0001, Japan.
²⁵ Department of Land Resource Management, School of Tourism and Urban Management, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China.
²⁶ School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
²⁷ Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy.
²⁸ Department of Watershed Management Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
²⁹ Estación Experimental de Aula-Dei (EEAD-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, Zaragoza, Spain. Avenida Montañana, 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain.
³⁰ State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
³¹ University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), PO Box 217, Enschede, AE 7500, the Netherlands.
³² Team Soil, Water and Land Use, Wageningen Environmental Research. Wageningen, 6708RC, Netherlands.
³³ Castilla La Mancha University, School of Advanced Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, Albacete, 02071, Spain.
³⁴ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
³⁵ State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
³⁶ World Food Programme, Roma, 00148, Italy; University of Leicester, Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, Department of Geography, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
³⁷ Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Bundesallee 69, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany.
³⁸ École Normale Supérieure, Department of Geosciences, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, France.
³⁹ Southwest Watershed Research Center, USDA-ARS, 2000 E. Allen Rd., Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States.
⁴⁰ Soil Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Kwadaso-Kumasi, Ghana.
⁴¹ Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States.
⁴² Normandie Univ, Rouen, UNIROUEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, M2C, FED-SCALE, Rouen, France.
⁴³ Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Geography Group, 8 Carol I, 700505, Iasi, Romania.
⁴⁴ ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
⁴⁵ Minas Gerais State University - Campus Frutal, Brazil.
⁴⁶ Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research - Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
⁴⁷ Faculty of Agriculture, University of Torbat Heydarieh, Torbat Heydarieh, Iran.
⁴⁸ University Hassiba Benbouali of Chlef, Laboratory of Chemistry Vegetable-Water-Energy, Algeria.
⁴⁹ Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of Physical Geography, University of Trier, 54296 Trier, Germany.
⁵⁰ Dept. Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa Via Delle Piagge 2, Pisa, 56129, Italy.
⁵¹ Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
⁵² Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - University of Milan, Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milan, Italy.
⁵³ Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.
⁵⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁵⁵ Federal University of Mato Grosso Do Sul, CxP. 549, Campo Grande, MS, 79070-900, Brazil.
⁵⁶ School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430205, China.
⁵⁷ Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵⁹ Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Dpt. of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
⁶⁰ Department "Agraria", University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Località Feo di Vito, 89122, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
⁶¹ State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China.

PMID: 33798514
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111087

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Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis

Nejc Bezak et al. Environ Res. 2021 Jun.

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. 2021 Jun:197:111087.

doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111087. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

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Affiliations

¹ University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Electronic address: nejc.bezak@fgg.uni-lj.si.
² University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
³ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy; Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, CH-4056, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Basel, CH-4056, Switzerland.
⁵ Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, National University of Loja, Ecuador.
⁶ Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC), University of São Paulo (USP), CxP. 359, São Carlos, SP, 13566-590, Brazil; Federal University of Mato Grosso Do Sul, CxP. 549, Campo Grande, MS, 79070-900, Brazil.
⁷ Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
⁸ European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
⁹ Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Strada Delle Cacce 73, 10135, Torino, Italy.
¹⁰ Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
¹¹ School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia.
¹² INRAE, Unité InfoSol, Orléans, 45075, France.
¹³ Department of Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
¹⁴ Water Research Institute-National Research Council, Bari, Italy.
¹⁵ International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Ethiopia.
¹⁶ Leibniz-Center for Agricultural Landscape Research Muencheberg (ZALF), Germany.
¹⁷ Met European Research Observatory-International Affiliates Program of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Via Monte Pino Snc, 82100, Benevento, Italy.
¹⁸ Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha - Suchdol, 165 00, Czech Republic.
¹⁹ Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ankara, 06110, Diskapi-Ankara, Turkey.
²⁰ Water and Soil Resources Research Group, Institute of Geography, Universität Augsburg, Alter Postweg 118, 86159, Augsburg, Germany.
²¹ University of Turin, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Largo Paolo Braccini, 2, 10095, Grugliasco, Italy.
²² University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Bari, Italy.
²³ Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (FV-IGB), Department of Ecohydrology, 12587, Berlin, Germany.
²⁴ International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University, Tottori, 680-0001, Japan.
²⁵ Department of Land Resource Management, School of Tourism and Urban Management, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China.
²⁶ School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
²⁷ Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy.
²⁸ Department of Watershed Management Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
²⁹ Estación Experimental de Aula-Dei (EEAD-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, Zaragoza, Spain. Avenida Montañana, 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain.
³⁰ State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
³¹ University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), PO Box 217, Enschede, AE 7500, the Netherlands.
³² Team Soil, Water and Land Use, Wageningen Environmental Research. Wageningen, 6708RC, Netherlands.
³³ Castilla La Mancha University, School of Advanced Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, Albacete, 02071, Spain.
³⁴ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
³⁵ State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
³⁶ World Food Programme, Roma, 00148, Italy; University of Leicester, Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, Department of Geography, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
³⁷ Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Bundesallee 69, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany.
³⁸ École Normale Supérieure, Department of Geosciences, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, France.
³⁹ Southwest Watershed Research Center, USDA-ARS, 2000 E. Allen Rd., Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States.
⁴⁰ Soil Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Kwadaso-Kumasi, Ghana.
⁴¹ Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States.
⁴² Normandie Univ, Rouen, UNIROUEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, M2C, FED-SCALE, Rouen, France.
⁴³ Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Geography Group, 8 Carol I, 700505, Iasi, Romania.
⁴⁴ ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
⁴⁵ Minas Gerais State University - Campus Frutal, Brazil.
⁴⁶ Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research - Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
⁴⁷ Faculty of Agriculture, University of Torbat Heydarieh, Torbat Heydarieh, Iran.
⁴⁸ University Hassiba Benbouali of Chlef, Laboratory of Chemistry Vegetable-Water-Energy, Algeria.
⁴⁹ Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of Physical Geography, University of Trier, 54296 Trier, Germany.
⁵⁰ Dept. Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa Via Delle Piagge 2, Pisa, 56129, Italy.
⁵¹ Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
⁵² Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - University of Milan, Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milan, Italy.
⁵³ Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.
⁵⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁵⁵ Federal University of Mato Grosso Do Sul, CxP. 549, Campo Grande, MS, 79070-900, Brazil.
⁵⁶ School of Environmental Ecology and Biological Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430205, China.
⁵⁷ Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵⁹ Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Dpt. of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
⁶⁰ Department "Agraria", University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Località Feo di Vito, 89122, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
⁶¹ State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China.

PMID: 33798514
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111087

Abstract

Soil erosion can present a major threat to agriculture due to loss of soil, nutrients, and organic carbon. Therefore, soil erosion modelling is one of the steps used to plan suitable soil protection measures and detect erosion hotspots. A bibliometric analysis of this topic can reveal research patterns and soil erosion modelling characteristics that can help identify steps needed to enhance the research conducted in this field. Therefore, a detailed bibliometric analysis, including investigation of collaboration networks and citation patterns, should be conducted. The updated version of the Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker (GASEMT) database contains information about citation characteristics and publication type. Here, we investigated the impact of the number of authors, the publication type and the selected journal on the number of citations. Generalized boosted regression tree (BRT) modelling was used to evaluate the most relevant variables related to soil erosion modelling. Additionally, bibliometric networks were analysed and visualized. This study revealed that the selection of the soil erosion model has the largest impact on the number of publication citations, followed by the modelling scale and the publication's CiteScore. Some of the other GASEMT database attributes such as model calibration and validation have negligible influence on the number of citations according to the BRT model. Although it is true that studies that conduct calibration, on average, received around 30% more citations, than studies where calibration was not performed. Moreover, the bibliographic coupling and citation networks show a clear continental pattern, although the co-authorship network does not show the same characteristics. Therefore, soil erosion modellers should conduct even more comprehensive review of past studies and focus not just on the research conducted in the same country or continent. Moreover, when evaluating soil erosion models, an additional focus should be given to field measurements, model calibration, performance assessment and uncertainty of modelling results. The results of this study indicate that these GASEMT database attributes had smaller impact on the number of citations, according to the BRT model, than anticipated, which could suggest that these attributes should be given additional attention by the soil erosion modelling community. This study provides a kind of bibliographic benchmark for soil erosion modelling research papers as modellers can estimate the influence of their paper.

Keywords: Citation analysis; Participatory network; Research impact; Soil erosion modelling; Systematic literature review.

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