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Table 1 Statistics of article number and percentage of swidden agriculture and some important and relevant topics from ISI Web of Science Core Collection during 1940–2023

From: The history and revival of swidden agriculture research in the tropics

Periods

Records of articles

Keyword combination (including swidden, shifting cultivation, or slash and burn)

Swidden, shifting cultivation, or slash and burn

Carbon

Biodiversity

Livelihoods

Landsat

1940–1996

Number

131

25

10

16

362

 

Percent (%)

8.29

2.01

1.33

6.18

15.12

1997–2007

Number

342

229

85

66

591

 

Percent (%)

21.65

18.44

11.33

25.48

24.69

2008–2023

Number

1107

988

655

177

1441

 

Percent (%)

70.06

79.55

87.34

68.34

60.19

1940–2023

Total

1580

1242

750

259

2394