Three decades of glacial lake research: a bibliometric and visual analysis of glacial lake identification

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Ecology and Evolution

Xiang Zou¹  Tao Zhang¹  Jiantao Zhang¹  Wenqi Jiao¹  Zhengxian Wang¹  Zhengquan Liu²  Zhiquan Yang²  Lai Wei²  Yingyan Zhu³  Na He⁴ 

[1] Faculty of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China;Faculty of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China;Key Laboratory of Geological Disaster Risk Prevention and Control and Emergency Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China, Kunming, China;Key Laboratory of Early Rapid Identification, Prevention and Control of Geological Diseases in Traffic Corridor of High Intensity Earthquake Mountainous Area of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China;Faculty of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China;Key Laboratory of Geological Disaster Risk Prevention and Control and Emergency Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China, Kunming, China;Key Laboratory of Early Rapid Identification, Prevention and Control of Geological Diseases in Traffic Corridor of High Intensity Earthquake Mountainous Area of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China;Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China;School of Civil Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, China;

关键词: glacial lake identification;    bibliometric analysis;    research focal points;    climate change;    remote sensing;    GLOF;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fevo.2023.1296111

 received in 2023-09-18, accepted in 2023-10-13,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionAs a vital component within glacier systems, the occurrences of glacial lake disasters in high mountain regions have progressively emerged as one of the most destructive natural calamities amid the backdrop of global warming. The swift advancement of glacial lake identification techniques offers a pivotal perspective for forecasting and mitigating the perils of glacial lake outburst disasters.MethodsTo evaluate the thematic evolution, research focal points, and forthcoming directions within the glacier identification domain, a comprehensive bibliometric analysis was conducted on glacial lake identification-related literature from 1991 to 2023 in the Web of Science Core Collection database.Results1) The United States, the United Kingdom, and China stand as principal nations propelling the field's advancement. The Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrates the highest activity in terms of article publications and international collaborations. 2) Climate change, compilation of glacial lake inventories, methodologies for risk assessment, glacial lake outburst floods, comprehensive disaster management strategies, and hydrodynamic models constitute the domain's research hotspots. It is a typical multidisciplinary field. 3) Persistently high-impact topics over an extended period include “hazard”, “Late Pleistocene”, “environmental change”, “ice sheet”, and “lake sediments”. Keywords indicating the present cutting-edge research encompass “inventory”, “glacial lake outburst flood”, “risk”, “dynamics”, “Tibetan Plateau”, “evolution”, and “high mountain Asia”.DiscussionThis paper delves into the current status and pivotal concerns of glacial lake identification techniques, methodologies, and the scale of identification research themes. Further Research should concentrate on avenues like “recognition methods grounded in machine learning and deep learning”, “multisource data fusion datasets”, “novel algorithms and technologies adaptable to scale transformation and data expansion”, as well as “enhancing spatiotemporal data resolution”. This will ultimately enable precise, prolonged, and multiscalar identification of glacial lakes. his study provides valuable guidance and reference for future research in the field of glacial lake identification.

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