Determination of the Terms Used in the Titles of Ecology Publications and Analysis of their Temporal Chance

Year 2014, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 54 - 71, 25.10.2014

Orhan Sevgi

Abstract

Ecology studies in recent years have become widespread in numerous fields. Therefore, new topics, concepts and terminology appear in ecology resources. Trend setting in ecological studies and so the studies to investigate changes of use of concept and terms from past to present are remarkable in recent years. Terms used in the titles of the publications of two important ecological sciences journals such as "Journal of Ecology" and "Ecology" and their changes have been analyzed in this study. In this context, the studies appeared in the Journal of Ecology were analyzed in total of three groups containing articles, reports and total group where both articles and reports are included; while the studies that take place in Ecology, by being classified in the form of articles, reports, other publications and their sums. 79397 words, in total, were obtained from titles of 6563 ecology publications of Journal of Ecology. Of those, 66157 words were involved in articles, and 13240 words in the titles of the other ecology publications. Similarly, total 167250 words were obtained from 15709 publication titles of Ecology. 136413 of those words were involved in articles; 14021 words in reports and notes, and also 16816 words in other ecology publications. Both journals gave publicity to the terminology of botany. This feature is more pronounced in the Journal of Ecology. The ones which ranked in the top 100 within the publishing groups of both journals are important terms of ecology. Among the publishing groups of journals, top ranking terms are plant, forest, vegetation, species, soil, ecology, growth, and community. In the article titles of Journal of Ecology, there are 21 terms which ranked in the top 100 between the years 1913 and 2013 and took part in all time periods of decade. Also in Ecology kournal, there are 62 terms which appeared in all decadal periods between the years 1920 and 2013. For the terms, the time periods of entering the top 100 were influenced by the general trends of ecology and the developments in other fields.

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