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Worldwide Trends in Agronomy Research: Bibliometric Studies – Series II

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 January 2023) | Viewed by 7715

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Prof. Dr. Francisco Manzano Agugliaro

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Department of Engineering, University of Almeria, CeiA3, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: remote sensing; UAV; land cover; land use; sustainability; agriculture; land change; energy; engineering; water
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Prof. Dr. Esther Salmerón-Manzano

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Agriculture is the world’s most pressing and responsible sector, given that seven billion people must eat every day. To achieve this, there are the following three priority issues: health, variety, and quantity. Agriculture, therefore, is the cultivation of land or the production of crops from the soil, but its main science of study is agronomy. Agronomy can be understood as the field of science that oversees organizing the knowledge of various applied sciences, focused on enhancing the quality of production processes and the transformation of agricultural products. Globally, food security is at risk, and for this reason, agronomy must achieve agricultural sustainability on Earth. In summary, Agronomy should contribute to improve the efficiency in the use of resources for food production. One of the main objectives of this Special Issue is to contribute studies that help to identify the global research trends in agronomy, especially if they have an approach related to sustainability. Therefore, articles reviewing this state of the art in any of these issues, bibliometric or scientometric studies, and research articles with a global perspective are welcome. These studies are recommended to identify the research trends in each scientific field related to agronomy and, if possible, identify the open challenges in that particular field of study.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Manzano Agugliaro
Dr. Esther Salmerón-Manzano
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Keywords

  • agricultural engineering
  • crop breeding and genetics
  • farming sustainability
  • horticultural and floricultural crops
  • innovative cropping systems
  • pest, parasites, and disease
  • soil and plant nutrition
  • water use and irrigation
  • weed science

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A Deep Learning Model of Radio Wave Propagation for Precision Agriculture and Sensor System in Greenhouses
by Dora Cama-Pinto, Miguel Damas, Juan Antonio Holgado-Terriza, Francisco Manuel Arrabal-Campos, Juan Antonio Martínez-Lao, Alejandro Cama-Pinto and Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro
Agronomy 2023, 13(1), 244; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13010244 - 13 Jan 2023
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The production of crops in greenhouses will ensure the demand for food for the world’s population in the coming decades. Precision agriculture is an important tool for this purpose, supported among other things, by the technology of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in the [...] Read more.
The production of crops in greenhouses will ensure the demand for food for the world’s population in the coming decades. Precision agriculture is an important tool for this purpose, supported among other things, by the technology of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in the monitoring of agronomic parameters. Therefore, prior planning of the deployment of WSN nodes is relevant because their coverage decreases when the radio waves are attenuated by the foliage of the plantation. In that sense, the method proposed in this study applies Deep Learning to develop an empirical model of radio wave attenuation when it crosses vegetation that includes height and distance between the transceivers of the WSN nodes. The model quality is expressed via the parameters cross-validation, R2 of 0.966, while its generalized error is 0.920 verifying the reliability of the empirical model. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Worldwide Trends in Agronomy Research: Bibliometric Studies – Series II)
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A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis of the Global Literature on Black Soil Conservation from 1983–2022 Based on CiteSpace and VOSviewer
by Yuxuan Xu, Jie Lyu, Hongbin Liu and Ying Xue
Agronomy 2022, 12(10), 2432; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12102432 - 7 Oct 2022
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Many scholars have conducted in-depth studies on the research area of black soil conservation (BSC) and produced fruitful research results, but there is still a lack of scientific quantitative analysis and objective comprehensive evaluation of the research results. In order to grasp and [...] Read more.
Many scholars have conducted in-depth studies on the research area of black soil conservation (BSC) and produced fruitful research results, but there is still a lack of scientific quantitative analysis and objective comprehensive evaluation of the research results. In order to grasp and clarify the current status of BSC research, we explored the trending topics and frontier issues in this research field, as well as the overall evolution trend from 1983 to 2022. Based on the publication information of BSC topics in the core database of Web of Science (WOS), this study utilized the superior tools in two major bibliometric software; they are the VOSviewer and CiteSpace to draw visual maps, such as collaboration networks and keyword co-occurrence maps, to further analyze the research progress and frontiers. The results are as follows: First, research on BSC began in 1983 and can be divided into three phases: the period of nascent research, steady development, and rapid growth. The subject increasingly became an area of research focus in academia, but gradually produced signs of intersection with other disciplines, such as agronomy, biology, and economics. Second, the distribution of research institutions and countries has become more concentrated, forming geographically small research clusters in typical black soil area countries, such as Russia and China, where the centrality of research institutions is higher than 0.20. Research networks have also been initially established between developed and developing countries, such as the United States and China, with a high centrality close to 0.50. Third, the research content is increasingly cross-cutting and systematic, and the research focus can be divided into five major areas, such as black soil distribution and physical and chemical characteristics. Fourth, the research areas cover agronomy, chemistry, geography and other levels, and a more systematic research system has been formed. In the future, it is still necessary to strengthen the establishment of data monitoring systems in black soil areas, the improvement of black soil information database, the assertion of conservation tillage technology and the strengthening of extreme climate early warning network to maintain the soil nutrient content and to guarantee the sustainable development of agriculture. Full article
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