Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research
Sustainability of water use in agriculture is a line of research that has gained in importance worldwide. The present study reviewed 25 years of international research on sustainable water use in agriculture. A bibliometric analysis was developed to sample 2084 articles. Results indicate exponential...
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| author | Velasco Muñoz, Juan Francisco Aznar Sánchez, José Ángel Belmonte Ureña, Luis Jesús Román Sánchez, Isabel María |
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| description | Sustainability of water use in agriculture is a line of research that has gained in importance worldwide. The present study reviewed 25 years of international research on sustainable water use in agriculture. A bibliometric analysis was developed to sample 2084 articles. Results indicate exponential growth in the number of articles published per year, with research in this field having acquired a global scale. Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences are the main categories. Three journals—Agricultural Water Management, Water Resources Management and Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao Agricultural Engineering—published the most of the articles. China, the U.S., Australia, India and Germany produced the most research. The three institutions that published the most articles were all Chinese (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Agricultural University and Northwest A&F University). The most cited authors were Ridoutt, Hoekstra and Zhang. The keywords most frequently used include: water-use, irrigation, water-management, water-supply, and sustainability. A network map shows three clusters that focus on the environmental, agronomic and management aspects. The findings of this study can assist researchers in this field by providing an overview of research on the sustainability of hydric resources. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-73552024-01-17T07:23:49Z Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research Velasco Muñoz, Juan Francisco Aznar Sánchez, José Ángel Belmonte Ureña, Luis Jesús Román Sánchez, Isabel María sustainability water use agriculture bibliometric analysis Scopus Sustainability of water use in agriculture is a line of research that has gained in importance worldwide. The present study reviewed 25 years of international research on sustainable water use in agriculture. A bibliometric analysis was developed to sample 2084 articles. Results indicate exponential growth in the number of articles published per year, with research in this field having acquired a global scale. Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences are the main categories. Three journals—Agricultural Water Management, Water Resources Management and Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao Agricultural Engineering—published the most of the articles. China, the U.S., Australia, India and Germany produced the most research. The three institutions that published the most articles were all Chinese (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Agricultural University and Northwest A&F University). The most cited authors were Ridoutt, Hoekstra and Zhang. The keywords most frequently used include: water-use, irrigation, water-management, water-supply, and sustainability. A network map shows three clusters that focus on the environmental, agronomic and management aspects. The findings of this study can assist researchers in this field by providing an overview of research on the sustainability of hydric resources. 2020-01-16T10:27:40Z 2020-01-16T10:27:40Z 2018-04-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2071-1050 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7355 en https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/4/1084 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | sustainability water use agriculture bibliometric analysis Scopus Velasco Muñoz, Juan Francisco Aznar Sánchez, José Ángel Belmonte Ureña, Luis Jesús Román Sánchez, Isabel María Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research |
| title | Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research |
| title_full | Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research |
| title_short | Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture: A Review of Worldwide Research |
| title_sort | sustainable water use in agriculture: a review of worldwide research |
| topic | sustainability water use agriculture bibliometric analysis Scopus |
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