A Review of Research on Frost and Chilling from 1954 to 2020 (Bibliometric Analysis)

Document Type : Review Article

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1 M. Sc. student in Water Resource Engineering, Water Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.

2 Associate professor, Water Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

3 Associate professor, Water Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.

Abstract

Due to the rising climate change, chilling and frost have affected agricultural production in many areas. At the same time, frost also causes freezing in irrigation systems. In the last decade, frost usually occurred yearly in farming regions and affected the economy of farmers. A bibliometric analysis of these researches may provide the importance of this topic and future research trends. Bibliometric is a statistical method to analyze bibliometric publications data such as peer-reviewed journal articles, books, conference proceedings, periodicals, reviews, reports, and related documents. It has been widely used to present the relations of research domains with quantitative methods. “Frost” and “chilling” were used as the keywords to reach the relevant publications. In this article, we used VOSviewer software for bibliometric analysis. We found 344 documents about the late spring frost. More than 79% of the publications were in the form of scientific journals and conference and review articles. The publication of articles showed a steep increase after 2014. The most publication was in 2021. The United States was the largest producer of scientific papers in the world. The highest-ranking journal was Acta Horticulturae, with 45 publications on frost and chilling. “Climate change,” with a total link strength of 56, appeared as the most frequent keyword, which had a solid link to “Frost,” “Phenology,” and “Chilling”.

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Water Management in Agriculture
Volume 10, Issue 1 - Serial Number 19
September 2023
Pages 131-146

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