Various criteria have been used to define mountains, all adopting degrees of ruggedness to decide whether terrain is considered mountainous (Körner et al., 2011, 2017 Price et al., 2019). Mountainous areas are impressive and important landscapes of our planet. ) I can confirm that data access is available for any licensed institution.įunding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
All geographical data used for this study are publicly available from the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment ( ) or the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (. However, the raw data can be reproduced at any licensed institution by applying the search string presented in this study in the Web of ScienceTM advanced search field. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: The bibliometric raw data used in this study are available from the Web of ScienceTM Core Collection ( ) but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Received: MaAccepted: AugPublished: August 25, 2022Ĭopyright: © 2022 Gurgiser et al. PLoS ONE 17(8):Įditor: Christian Huggel, Universitat Zurich Institut fur Volkswirtschaftslehre, SWITZERLAND (2022) Rising slopes-Bibliometrics of mountain research 1900–2019. Thus, geographically and disciplinarily more balanced research activities and better accessibility of knowledge about mountain regions are recommended.Ĭitation: Gurgiser W, Price MF, Juen IF, Körner C, Bahn M, Gems B, et al. The number of papers per area or capita showed high variability across the investigated mountain ranges. The most papers were written by researchers in the USA, followed by China. While papers were published in more than 1000 different journals, indicating a wide range of disciplines engaged in mountain research, 94% of the papers were assigned to “Science & Technology”, only <5% to “Social Sciences” and “Arts & Humanities”. We analyzed the number of publications over time, journals and scientific categories, frequent topics, and geographical distributions based on 40 mountain ranges and authors’ countries as well as institutional contributions. This study presents the development of mountain research between 19 based on peer-reviewed articles in English listed in Web of Science TM (WOS). Mountain areas provide essential resources for a significant proportion of the Earth’s population.
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