Department of Building Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Palestine Technical University-Kadoorei, P. O. Box Tulkarem, Jaffa Street 7, Tulkarem, Palestine.
Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 10/I, Graz, Austria.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 Jan;27(3):3523-3540. doi: 10.1007/s11356-019-07100-y. Epub 2019 Dec 21.
The attendant threats of climate change in the Arab world are accelerating at a high pace. The realization of these risks has promoted scientific research activities in climate change (i.e., modeling of climate change effects and development of mitigation and adaptation measures). A bibliometric analysis was desired to trace the status and trends of these research activities with an origin from the Arab world. The aim was to contribute to a better understanding of the scientific knowledge of climate change and its impacts and survey its evolution. Moreover, it is aimed at enabling recommendations for future research activities in this field. The data of this analysis were retrieved from the Scopus database using the most common terms of climate change to search titles, abstracts, and keywords. The collected data, in the form of documents referring to climate change, enabled to extract and further assess different quantitative and qualitative bibliometric indicators. Productivity of countries, sources, and institutions; collaboration figures; impact of published research; and citation rates were being among the assessed indicators. Subsequently, the data were analyzed using visualization maps and clustering techniques to characterize the hot spots and vital topics of research. A total of 2074 documents (1.2% of the total global research output) were retrieved from the Arab world. Saudi Arabia took the leading positions in terms of the number of publications (473 documents; 22.8%), impact of research (Hirsch index (h-index), 48), collected citations (10,573 citations), and number of documents from collaboration (389 documents). The USA was the most collaborated country with the Arab world (344 documents; 17.0%), followed by France (311 documents; 15.0%). The most productive journal was Plos One (42 documents; 2.0%), followed by the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (38 documents; 1.8%). Three institutions from Saudi Arabia were in the forefront in terms of research productivity (King Abdulaziz University, 124 documents; King Saud University, 117 documents; and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 102 documents). The vital climate change-related topics which will continue to be active in the future are climate modeling, physiology, genetics, and animals. The present data indicate a committed scientific research progress. Increasing the fund, capacity building, and development of regional experience with climate change-related disasters are key factors to promote the scientific research in this field.
气候变化对阿拉伯世界的威胁正在加速，这些风险的认识促进了气候变化方面的科学研究活动（即气候变化影响建模和缓解及适应措施的制定）。需要进行文献计量分析，以跟踪源自阿拉伯世界的这些研究活动的现状和趋势。目的是促进对气候变化及其影响的科学知识的更好理解，并对其发展进行调查。此外，旨在为该领域的未来研究活动提供建议。该分析的数据是从 Scopus 数据库中检索到的，使用气候变化的最常见术语搜索标题、摘要和关键词。所收集的数据以提到气候变化的文献形式，使我们能够提取和进一步评估不同的定量和定性文献计量指标。评估的指标包括各国、来源和机构的生产力；合作情况；已发表研究的影响；以及引文率。随后，使用可视化地图和聚类技术对数据进行分析，以描绘研究的热点和重要主题。从阿拉伯世界共检索到 2074 篇文献（占全球研究产出的 1.2%）。沙特阿拉伯在出版物数量（473 篇，22.8%）、研究影响力（h 指数，48）、收集的引文（10573 条引文）和合作文献数量（389 篇）方面处于领先地位。美国是与阿拉伯世界合作最多的国家（344 篇文献，17.0%），其次是法国（311 篇文献，15.0%）。最具生产力的期刊是 Plos One（42 篇文献，2.0%），其次是 Arabian Journal of Geosciences（38 篇文献，1.8%）。沙特阿拉伯的三所机构在研究生产力方面处于领先地位（阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学，124 篇文献；沙特国王大学，117 篇文献；以及阿卜杜拉国王科技大学，102 篇文献）。未来将继续活跃的与气候变化相关的重要主题是气候建模、生理学、遗传学和动物学。目前的数据表明，科学研究取得了进展。增加资金、能力建设和发展与气候变化相关灾害的区域经验是促进该领域科学研究的关键因素。
