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Response to Chuang and Ho’s comments on “a bibliometric study of the trend in articles related to eutrophication published in Science Citation Index”

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This note is a response Chuang and Ho’s comments regarding to the appropriate selection of keywords for a bibliometric study entitled “a bibliometric study of the trend in articles related to eutrophication published in Science Citation Index” published in Scientometrics. Chuang’s inquiry was Huang and Yi’s careless use of filter, which had committed inaccurate results and wrong conclusions. This short note will explain the authors’ arguments to Chuang and Ho’s inquiry in two folds, the conceptual analysis of keywords selection, and bibliometric comparison between ‘eutrophication’ and ‘eutrophication and eutrophic’.

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  1. College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, No.5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Yi Huang & Jie Wang

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Huang, Y., Wang, J. Response to Chuang and Ho’s comments on “a bibliometric study of the trend in articles related to eutrophication published in Science Citation Index”. Scientometrics 91, 1067–1071 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0607-3

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