Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB Abstracts

We scientometrically examined selected publishing patterns in organic farming as indexed by database CAB Abstracts (CABA) in the period 1973-2003. Some characteristics of CABA were also established. 4,170 records of all types (2,740 journal articles, 1,165 conference papers etc.) were harvested with...

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Main Authors: Tomaž BARTOL, Špela DRNOVŠEK, Majda ČERNIČ-ISTENIČ
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Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2005-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/15255
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description We scientometrically examined selected publishing patterns in organic farming as indexed by database CAB Abstracts (CABA) in the period 1973-2003. Some characteristics of CABA were also established. 4,170 records of all types (2,740 journal articles, 1,165 conference papers etc.) were harvested with the employment of descriptors derived from the CAB Thesaurus. The journal articles were further analyzed for yearly growth, languages, authorship, and geographic location. Growth has accelerated during the last ten years. English prevails among the 31 retrieved languages, with some 50 % citations, followed by German, Italian, French, and Japanese. A few highly productive authors (among the 4,304 different authors), with some publishing as many as 18 articles, accounted for the core of documents, whereas as many as 3,438 authors contributed only one article in the entire period. Germany was most frequently indexed as a geographic-location-descriptor, followed by Italy, U.K., Denmark, and Switzerland. This descriptor field, however, is not employed consistently so the geographic data must be interpreted with caution. This analysis is based mostly on descriptor Organic farming so some other terms could possibly also be employed to retrieve more documents related to this field of research.
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spelling doaj-art-c2c9dd5a3a4845a2a6dbde35275db7232025-08-20T02:04:44ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Agriculturae Slovenica1854-19412005-05-0185131310.14720/aas.2005.85.1.1525521648Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB AbstractsTomaž BARTOL0Špela DRNOVŠEK1Majda ČERNIČ-ISTENIČ2iotechnical Fac., Agronomy Dept., Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaBiotechnical Fac., Agronomy Dept., Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaBiotechnical Fac., Agronomy Dept., Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaWe scientometrically examined selected publishing patterns in organic farming as indexed by database CAB Abstracts (CABA) in the period 1973-2003. Some characteristics of CABA were also established. 4,170 records of all types (2,740 journal articles, 1,165 conference papers etc.) were harvested with the employment of descriptors derived from the CAB Thesaurus. The journal articles were further analyzed for yearly growth, languages, authorship, and geographic location. Growth has accelerated during the last ten years. English prevails among the 31 retrieved languages, with some 50 % citations, followed by German, Italian, French, and Japanese. A few highly productive authors (among the 4,304 different authors), with some publishing as many as 18 articles, accounted for the core of documents, whereas as many as 3,438 authors contributed only one article in the entire period. Germany was most frequently indexed as a geographic-location-descriptor, followed by Italy, U.K., Denmark, and Switzerland. This descriptor field, however, is not employed consistently so the geographic data must be interpreted with caution. This analysis is based mostly on descriptor Organic farming so some other terms could possibly also be employed to retrieve more documents related to this field of research.https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/15255organic farmingbibliographic databasesbibliographic datainformation retrievalinformation scatterdata collectiondata processingindexingdocumentationinformation sciencebibliometricsscientometricsterminology
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Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB Abstracts
Acta Agriculturae Slovenica
organic farming
bibliographic databases
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information retrieval
information scatter
data collection
data processing
indexing
documentation
information science
bibliometrics
scientometrics
terminology
title Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB Abstracts
title_full Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB Abstracts
title_fullStr Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB Abstracts
title_full_unstemmed Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB Abstracts
title_short Scientific and technical information on organic farming: assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database CAB Abstracts
title_sort scientific and technical information on organic farming assessment of selected bibliographic indicators in database cab abstracts
topic organic farming
bibliographic databases
bibliographic data
information retrieval
information scatter
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data processing
indexing
documentation
information science
bibliometrics
scientometrics
terminology
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