RT Journal Article
T1 Protected Area Effectiveness in the Scientific Literature: A Decade-Long Bibliometric Analysis
A1 Martínez-Vega, Javier
A1 Rodriguez-Rodriguez, David
K1 Biodiversidad - Conservación
AB Protected areas (PAs) aim to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem services in the long term.Despite remarkable growth in the area covered by PAs in recent years, biodiversity trends still showworrisome outcomes. Here, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of scientific articlesfocusing on the ecological effectiveness of PAs that were published in the 2010–2019 decade usingScopus in order to show the latest publication trends in that research field. After three consecutivescreenings, we analyzed a final census sample of 76 articles that used semiexperimental researchdesigns. We assessed 3 thematic variables (i.e., related to ecological effectiveness) and 13 bibliometricvariables through descriptive statistics, Spearman correlation tests, and Kruskal–Wallis differencetests. Our results demonstrate the growing size of research teams working on this topic, broaderinternational collaboration, and greater length of the articles published on this subject. During thatdecade, the number of normalized citations (+28%) and the mean field-weighted citation impact(FWCI) of the set of reviewed articles (33% higher than expected) increased. We also observed anincrease in open access publications (+13%). However, this mode of publication did not ensure morecitations. Finally, we observed a positive correlation between the number of normalized citations andthe inclusion of Supplementary Data in the articles.
PB IOAP-MPDI
YR 2022
FD 2022-06-16
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24577
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24577
LA eng
NO Partial funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga
NO Partial funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026