Title: A bibliometric analysis on the global research trends of climate change
Abstract:
Climate change poses a real threat to species and human existence, leading to biodiversity loss, extreme events like droughts and floods, socioeconomic vulnerability, increased risk of infectious diseases, and more. In this study, a bibliometric analysis was conducted on academic research articles to examine the publication trends, themes, impacts, and potential areas for future research on climate change. Both the Scopus and the Web of Science online databases were used to search for journal articles linked to climate change. A total of 522,135 papers associated with climate change research were published between 1923 and 2023 in the world; China and the USA were the countries that most published articles. Rapid development occurred over the past 25 years and the number of published papers considerably increased since the 2000s. The findings unveiled an uprising trend in publications and posited several themes, mainly climate models, exposure, sensitivity, drought, and flood by means of climate change effects that affect biodiversity and ecosystems. Research on climate change effects focuses mainly in agriculture and coastal regions. A keyword analysis showed that among the top 50 most frequently used keywords, “disasters” “floods” and “risks” exhibited increasing trends. Keywords such as “algae” and “cyanobacteria” also showed increasing trends with climate change, implied that more attention was paid to the harmful cyanobacterial blooms. Another significant increasing trend was observed between climate change and remote sensing. Our results also indicate several research gaps and offered opportunities for further studies.
Biography:
Biologist from the Federal University of Paraná, Dra. Camila Lorenz has a Master's and PhD from the University of São Paulo (USP), where she studied neotropical mosquitoes. She has completed her postdoctoral studies from School of Public Health and Institute of Advanced Studies of USP. She is interested in understanding the determinants of diseases in wild and urban environments, building predictive models and how climate change affects the distribution of vectors, viruses, and diseases. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Parasites & Vectors Journal.
