A review of published forest hydrology research 1990–2013: forest hydrology and hydrological processes

We review 100 papers that deals with an effective bibliometric analysis based on the Science Citation Index (SCI) published by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) was carried out to identify forest hydrology between 1990 and 2013. Study was to conduct a quantitative and qualitative analysis for global scenario of forest hydrology related research. The language and document type and also characteristics related to publications were analyzed. The results showed the significant forest hydrology research issues in the SCI database. From 1990 to 2013 it is revealed that forest hydrology is mainly focused on the hydrological processes in a forest catchment rather than water quality, forest protective functions, soil type and different reforestation domain. The USA produced the most single-country articles and international collaborative articles, followed by China. Moreover, it was proved that article title and author keyword analysis methods were effective approaches for mapping forest hydrology research. Forest hydrology research issues and hydrological processes research changes were also identified by statistical analysis.