Scientific Coverage in Water Governance: Systematic Analysis
Amador Durán-Sánchez 1
, María de la Cruz del Río-Rama 2, José Álvarez-García 3,* and Francisco Javier Castellano-Álvarez 4
, María de la Cruz del Río-Rama 2, José Álvarez-García 3,* and Francisco Javier Castellano-Álvarez 4
1
Faculty of Business, Finance and Tourism, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
2
Business Organisation and Marketing Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Tourism, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
3
Financial Economy and Accounting Department, Faculty of Business, Finance and Tourism, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
4
Economy Department, Faculty of Business, Finance and Tourism, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Water 2019, 11(1), 177; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010177
Received: 18 December 2018 / Revised: 9 January 2019 / Accepted: 12 January 2019 / Published: 21 January 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management and Governance)
Abstract
In this article, the results of the bibliometric analysis applied to research on “Water Governance” are presented in order to observe behavior patterns in the key areas of this field of knowledge (progression, most productive authors, etc.). This research is complemented with a co-citation analysis. When considering two databases, a comparative study is carried out between both databases through coverage, overlap, dispersion, or concentration indicators. The results indicate that this area of knowledge has evolved rapidly and has gained popularity and importance among researchers, especially since 2009, when the real boom of the discipline took place, with about two-thirds of the papers being published in the last five years. The main authors, the most relevant articles based on the citation criterion, the institutions, and countries with the highest number of investigations and the journals where this topic is published are also identified. Scopus is the database that performs better coverage by collecting a higher number of articles and obtaining a greater number of citations. View Full-TextKeywords:
author co-citation analysis (ACA); bibliometric; water governance; WoS; Scopus
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Durán-Sánchez, A.; del Río-Rama, M.C.; Álvarez-García, J.; Castellano-Álvarez, F.J. Scientific Coverage in Water Governance: Systematic Analysis. Water 2019, 11, 177.
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