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Soil characteristics often have an impact on a
farm’s competitiveness and on the quality of the agricultural goods obtained through farming activities. The
quality of these products leads to social consequences,
namely because of its impact on human health.
Considering these contexts and the pertinence of these
issues, in this study the intention is to highlight the several
dimensions related to soil salinity and the respective economic dynamics. To achieve these objectives, several documents were considered from the Web of Science Core
Collection (WoS) and Scopus for search topics associated
with these issues (soil salinity and economic dynamics).
The metadata obtained from the two databases for these
documents was first benchmarked. After this initial benchmarking to identify the main differences between WoS and
Scopus, these documents were analysed through bibliometric approaches and later exploited using a literature
review. An alternative approach to carrying out systematic
reviews in the presence of a great number of documents
(methodology based on benchmarking of metadata, from
scientific databases, and bibliometric assessment and analysis) was suggested. The results show that the strategies for
dealing with the soil salinity and the concerns for food
security, desertification, climate change, nitrogen management, and plant osmoregulation deserved special attention
from the researchers. In turn, the direct assessment of the
socioeconomic impacts from soil salinity, or the impacts on
several dimensions of sustainability motived fewer studies.
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Web of Science Scopus Bibliometric analysis Centrality metrics Systematic review
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De Gruyte