Current trends in scientific research on global warming: A bibliometric analysis (2005-2014)

This dataset was created in the context of the project: " Current trends in scientific research on global warming: A bibliometric analysis (2005-2014)".

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Global warming is a topic of increasing public importance, but there have not been published scientometric studies on this topic. The objective of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the scientific knowledge in global warming and his effect, as well as to investigate its evolution through the published papers included in Web of Science database. Items under study were collected from Web of Science database from Thomson Reuters. A bibliometric and social network analyses was performed to obtain indicators of scientific productivity, impact and collaboration between researchers, institutions and countries. A subject analysis was also carried out taking into account the key words assigned to papers and subject areas of journals. 1,672 articles were analysed since 2005 until 2014. The most productive journals were Journal of Climate (n=95) and Geophysical Resarch Letters (n=78). The most frequent keywords have been Climate Change  (n=722), Model (n=216) and Temperature (n=196). The network of collaboration between countries shows the central position of the United States, together with other leading countries such as United Kingdom, Germany, France and Peoples Republic of China. The research on global warming had grown steadily during the last decade. A vast amount of journals from several subject areas publishes the papers on the topic, including journals of general purpose with high impact factor. Almost all the countries have USA as the main country with which one collaborates. The analysis of key words shows that topics related with climate change, impact, temperature, models and variability are the most important concerns on global warming.

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The dataset consist of the following:

1) The list of papers included in the analyses: Papers.xlsx

This file contains 1672 titles, each line representing a paper (including title of the paper, journal ISSN and year of publication).

2) The list of authors: Authors.xlsx

This file contains all 4488 authors, each line representing an author (including full name, total number of papers and year of publication).

3) The list of scientific journals: Journals.xlsx

This file containts all 687 journals, each line representing a journal (including name of the journal, ISSN, total number of papers and year of publication).

4) The list of countries: Country.xlsx

This file contains all 84 countries, each line representing a country (including country name, total number of papers, total number of citations, and number of citations per paper).

5) The list of keywords: Keywords.xlsx

This file contains all 6422 keywords, each line representing a keyword (including keywords, number of papers and year of publication)