How is community forestry (CF) research changing as CF policies mature around the world? In this research note we use bibliometrics and topic modelling to display trends in the geographic foci and research topics mentioned in the abstracts of CF-related research papers published between 1990 and 2017. We find that studies of CF in South Asia make up a substantial proportion of the literature, although CF research in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America has also developed. Using a structural topic model, we identify four major research areas and 20 topics latent in the text of the abstracts analyzed. The trends of topic proportions over time offer evidence of a shift in research focus from broad policy analysis to local outcomes and growing interest in carbon sequestration. Results identify the most prominent CF research topics and demonstrate the potential of topic models to analyze large amounts of scientific literature.

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社区林业研究主题趋势建模

随着全球CF政策的成熟，社区林业（CF）研究将如何变化？在本研究报告中，我们使用文献计量学和主题建模方法来显示1990年至2017年间发表的CF相关研究论文摘要中提到的地理重点趋势和研究主题。我们发现，南亚CF的研究占相当大的比例虽然在非洲，东南亚和拉丁美洲的CF研究也得到了发展，但在文献研究方面还是如此。使用结构性主题模型，我们确定了分析摘要中潜在的四个主要研究领域和20个主题。随着时间的推移，主题比例的趋势提供了证据，表明研究重点已从广泛的政策分析转移到了本地成果，并且对固碳的兴趣日益增长。