Analysis of scientific research in the field of nomadic geography: scientometric study

Introduction :

Synonym analysis is one of the types of co-occurrence analysis and is one of the important methods of bibliometrics that is used to map the relationship between concepts, ideas, and problems in basic sciences and social sciences.

The scientometric study of scientific research in the field of nomadic geography is a subject that has not been addressed so far; Therefore, the analysis of the scientific flow of migration geography can play an essential role in identifying important research areas.Geographical area of research Using full enumeration method, metadata of related documents available in ScienceDirect scientific database from 1999 to 2022 were counted and irrelevant options were filtered. In the defined period of time (23 years), the number of productions in this field in the world included 12,684 documents, which data were collected by using the title field and by entering the keyword "Nomadic" in the search bar of the mentioned database.

In terms of article type, 2 types of research and review articles, in terms of title, 11 publication titles in 6 subject areas between 1999-2022 with a total of 771 results were identified and stored in the VOSviewer software environment for retrieval and scientometric analysis.

Holocene, Africa, desertification, and semi-arid are key words that have been mentioned in the field of migration between 2011-2012. Since 2016, the keyword of climate change is an emerging and prominent word that has created a special connection with the words of agriculture, conflict, resilience and culture. Finally, the number of 9 maps was condensed and it became clear that the review of its core keywords can be a valuable guide for studies related to nomadism in the future.