In light of the ongoing climate change negotiations in Bonn this week, I decided to take a quick look at the existing academic literature on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. As of today, there were 1,375 journal articles on the Scopus database that include the terms "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" or its acronym "UNFCCC". The graph below shows the number of articles per year:
This second map color codes the terms according to the average year of publication for the documents in which they occur. Notice the difference between the Clean Development Mechanism and more recent REDD+ terms, as well as the very recent average for "Paris" on the left.
Finally, this heat map shows the most commonly occurring terms and when those terms cluster with each other:
**Quick Update**
I did the same analysis, but starting with terms that occurred in at least three articles (not ten as above).
A little less than 30% of those articles (nearly 400) were written in just ten journals:
I used the VOSviewer program to analyze the title and abstracts of these articles. Using the default settings for analyzing a text corpus, it identified 25,470 unique terms, 781 of which occurred in at least ten articles. I then asked it to identify the top 60% of articles in terms of a "relevance score", which removes very common terms etc.
The map below shows the resulting 469 terms, connected when they co-occur in an article:
This second map color codes the terms according to the average year of publication for the documents in which they occur. Notice the difference between the Clean Development Mechanism and more recent REDD+ terms, as well as the very recent average for "Paris" on the left.
Finally, this heat map shows the most commonly occurring terms and when those terms cluster with each other:
**Quick Update**
I did the same analysis, but starting with terms that occurred in at least three articles (not ten as above).
