3.3 Journal co-citation analysis
A total of 3,307 publications on hydrological connectivity were
published in 783 journals from 1998 to 2018. Table 2 shows the top 10
journals and co-cited journals in hydrological connectivity.
Hydrological Processes is the most productive journal, it has published
193 papers (accounting 5.8%), the second is Journal of Hydrology (149
publications, 4.5%), followed by Water Resources Research (139
publications, 4.2%). Among the top 10 productive journals, Science of
the Total Environment has the highest impact factor (IF), 5.589.
Moreover, the journal with the most citation count was Hydrological
Processes, 1,585 totally, followed by Journal of Hydrology (1,561
records) and Water Resources Research (1,517 records). To obtain
information about the co-cited relations between journals, the network
is given in Fig. 3. As can be seen from Fig. 3, the co-cited
relationship between each journal is very close, especially the journal
represented by the node with the purple ring. Moreover, seven of the top
ten co-cited journals had high centrality. Particularly, though some
journals with a small number of publications, they still have a high
centrality, which indicates that the articles published in these
journals have a strong research value.
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