DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14599688
title: Bibliographic search on agro-hydrological infrastructures: query design strategies and refinement process for a literature review

description: This dataset contains bibliographic search queries conducted in the Scopus and Web of Science databases for a literature review on agro-hydrological infrastructures. Different query design strategies cover key topics such as soil management, water conservation, runoff control, and green water management. Metadata includes query identifiers, dates, search terms, number of results, and qualitative comments. The dataset supports a broader bibliometric analysis, although some queries tested a regional focus on the Mediterranean. Search terms such as 'water', 'green water', and 'runoff' were combined with 'management', 'conservation,' and 'structures' to identify documents on runoff management structures or water harvesting structures, with a possible focus on rainfed agriculture. Despite the refinement, the results remained broad and still included irrelevant results such as urban runoff studies or soil and water conservation practices. The query results were used to identify highly cited documents to narrow the scope. Their references and citing documents were then used to analyze agricultural contexts. Studies on storage structures or related to irrigation were excluded. A manuscript (in preparation) based on these searches addresses a global review of case studies, key findings, and knowledge gaps on onsite runoff management structures and their maintenance.
description:  




Sheets 
Database
Search strategy


scopus-soil
Scopus
soil related terms


scopus-water
Scopus
water related terms


scopus-runoff
Scopus
runoff related terms


wos-water
Web of Science
green water related terms


 
 
 


Field
Type
Content


date
date
date of the execution of the search


query-id
text
unique identifier for the query


subarea
boolean y/n
restriction to specific subareas of the database


query
text
the actual query utilized for the search


results
integer
total number of documents retrieved


examine
boolean y/n
indicates whether the results are relevant to be examined in detail


error
boolean y/n
is there a factual error in the query?


main
text
id of the main query in case of a derivated query, * if original


difference
text
what has been changed from the main query, in case of a derivated query


remarks 
text
main element noted from the first page of results (date-newest)


Cortext
boolean y/n
indicates if the literature body has been exported to the CorTexT platform for semantic analyses https://www.cortext.net/


reported
boolean y/n
reported in the manuscript that describes the results of the literature review


 
 
 


Remark
 - 
Some descriptive fields have been left partially incomplete


Color code
 - 
To facilitate the retrieval of interesting queries (optional); mostly automated as conditional formatting


 
 
 


Creation
02/06/2023
Dataset structure


Last update
04/01/2025
Metadata documentation and upload
description: Davide Rizzo received support from the French National Research Agency (ANR, grant n. ANR-22-CPJ1-0050-01), the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and the University of Montpellier Experimental Public Institution Excellence Program (UM EPE) as a contribution to the Junior Professorship in Landscape Agronomy.