Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is a biodiversity hotspot because of its high levels of species richness, endemism, and degree of threat. Plant inventories and quantitative vegetation analyses in Cerrado have contributed to clarifying species richness, differentiation of community composition among areas, community structure across time, and biogeographic patterns. Here we perform a science mapping analysis to investigate patterns, trends, and the historical of floristic and phytosociological research in plant communities in the Brazilian Cerrado. We obtained 485 articles from the ISI Web of Science Thomson Reuters platform, Scopus, Scielo, and Google Scholar, comprising the timeframe from 1960 to 2018. Our findings show an overall increase in the number of studies across time, but not associated with an increase in publication quality. Most articles were authored by Brazilian researchers from public universities. International institutions had infrequent participation in the field. The most productive author with constant and continuum scientific production over time was Felfili JM (in memorian) from the University of Brasilia, which was the most productive university (∼20% articles). Among the 91 different journals, three encompassed 33% of the scientific production. Although collaboration is dominant among research groups, from 2010 to 2018 we found an increase in single-authored articles. Most papers were published in regional journals with low impact factor (IF) and citation, narrowing the interest in the field by foreign researchers. Our study points to the need to broaden the readership and partnership of floristic and phytosociological studies, to establish network researches, publish in journals with higher IF and in English, allowing access to this knowledge by Botanists and Ecologists from other countries.

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巴西塞拉多植物和植物社会学文献的时间趋势、影响和伙伴关系

摘要 巴西塞拉多因其高度的物种丰富度、特有性和威胁程度而成为生物多样性热点。塞拉多的植物清单和定量植被分析有助于阐明物种丰富度、区域间群落组成的差异、跨时间的群落结构和生物地理模式。在这里，我们进行科学绘图分析，以调查巴西塞拉多植物群落的植物群落和植物社会学研究的模式、趋势和历史。我们从 ISI Web of Science Thomson Reuters 平台、Scopus、Scielo 和 Google Scholar 中获得了 485 篇文章，时间范围从 1960 年到 2018 年。我们的研究结果显示，随着时间的推移，研究数量总体增加，但与增加无关在出版质量上。大多数文章是由巴西公立大学的研究人员撰写的。国际机构很少参与该领域。随着时间的推移，科学产出始终如一且连续不断的最具生产力的作者是来自巴西利亚大学的 Felfili JM（纪念），该大学是生产力最高的大学（约 20% 的文章）。在 91 种不同的期刊中，3 种涵盖了 33% 的科学产出。尽管研究小组之间的合作占主导地位，但从 2010 年到 2018 年，我们发现单作者文章有所增加。大多数论文发表在影响因子（IF）和引用率较低的地区期刊上，缩小了外国研究人员对该领域的兴趣。我们的研究指出需要扩大植物群和植物社会学研究的读者群和伙伴关系，