Trend Analysis of Publications on Watershed Sustainability Indicators in Popular Academic Databases

This chapter presents trend analysis of publications on watershed sustainability and other related topics. We selected keywords related to watershed sustainability from an extensive literature review. Following keywords were used in database search: “WSI & watershed,” “WSI & catchment,” “watershed sustainability,” “WSI & river basin,” “river basin sustainability,” “watershed sustainability index,” “catchment sustainability,” and “sustainable use of watershed.” The trend analysis was performed on the number of retrievals from seven popular databases such as Scopus, Science direct, Wiley online library, ProQuest, Springer link, Taylor Francis online, and Web of Knowledge. The search period was divided into different periods to see the trend of publications. The trend analysis shows that the number of publications for the recent period (say 2010–2014) was much higher than older periods for all databases. The popular keyword on which most of the publications were belonging was “WSI & watershed.” The most popular database where higher numbers of publications on watershed sustainability was retrieved was Scopus. More trend analysis results are shown in the body of this chapter.