Table 2 The top 100 keywords in forest ecology articles indexed using the Web of Science during 2002–2011
From: A bibliometric analysis of global forest ecology research during 2002–2011
Keywords | Frequencies | |
|---|---|---|
1 | forest | 9302 |
2 | diversity | 5424 |
3 | conservation | 5135 |
4 | dynamics | 4886 |
5 | vegetation | 4720 |
6 | biodiversity | 4613 |
7 | patterns | 4166 |
8 | growth | 4069 |
9 | rain-forest | 3253 |
10 | management | 3236 |
11 | nitrogen | 3136 |
12 | forests | 3069 |
13 | soil | 2793 |
14 | ecology | 2677 |
15 | communities | 2596 |
16 | carbon | 2568 |
17 | climate-change | 2412 |
18 | ecosystems | 2407 |
19 | disturbance | 2389 |
20 | species richness | 2381 |
21 | boreal forest | 2334 |
22 | landscape | 2180 |
23 | biomass | 2130 |
24 | model | 2100 |
25 | climate | 2095 |
26 | fire | 2043 |
27 | abundance | 1855 |
28 | united-states | 1849 |
29 | habitat | 1846 |
30 | temperature | 1824 |
31 | plants | 1782 |
32 | organic-matter | 1755 |
33 | populations | 1733 |
34 | decomposition | 1603 |
35 | climate change | 1599 |
36 | dispersal | 1590 |
37 | responses | 1576 |
38 | regeneration | 1531 |
39 | tropical forest | 1513 |
40 | land-use | 1509 |
41 | habitat fragmentation | 1495 |
42 | trees | 1486 |
43 | fragmentation | 1473 |
44 | forest soils | 1441 |
45 | evolution | 1408 |
46 | succession | 1384 |
47 | deforestation | 1375 |
48 | ecosystem | 1362 |
49 | birds | 1333 |
50 | population | 1276 |
51 | competition | 1273 |
52 | water | 1235 |
53 | variability | 1210 |
54 | deciduous forest | 1190 |
55 | forest management | 1189 |
56 | community structure | 1178 |
57 | behavior | 1140 |
58 | community | 1131 |
59 | restoration | 1127 |
60 | tropical forests | 1107 |
61 | photosynthesis | 1093 |
62 | seed dispersal | 1081 |
63 | usa | 1067 |
64 | productivity | 1054 |
65 | microbial biomass | 1040 |
66 | density | 1034 |
67 | impact | 1019 |
68 | brazil | 1018 |
69 | models | 988 |
70 | carbon-dioxide | 978 |
71 | phosphorus | 971 |
72 | size | 971 |
73 | predation | 947 |
74 | classification | 943 |
75 | respiration | 932 |
76 | scale | 927 |
77 | drought | 920 |
78 | national-park | 918 |
79 | plant | 910 |
80 | selection | 909 |
81 | tree | 902 |
82 | deposition | 889 |
83 | history | 888 |
84 | recruitment | 875 |
85 | norway spruce | 874 |
86 | soil respiration | 870 |
87 | australia | 868 |
88 | consequences | 864 |
89 | tropical rain-forest | 839 |
90 | survival | 834 |
91 | quality | 830 |
92 | mexico | 819 |
93 | costa-rica | 813 |
94 | impacts | 812 |
95 | new-zealand | 796 |
96 | forest soil | 794 |
97 | mortality | 788 |
98 | soils | 787 |
99 | grassland | 786 |
100 | assemblages | 785 |