Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology

doi:10.1002/ecs2.2567

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	Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology
	Lai, Jiangshan 3; Lortie, Christopher J.; Muenchen, Robert A.; Yang, Jian 1; Ma, Keping
刊名	ECOSPHERE
	2019
卷号	10 期号:1
关键词	code ecology journal open science packages R reproducibility statistical programming Web of Science
ISSN号	2150-8925
DOI	10.1002/ecs2.2567
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	The programming language R is widely used in many fields. We explored the extent of reported R use in the field of ecology using the Web of Science and text mining. We analyzed the frequencies of R packages reported in more than 60,000 peer-reviewed articles published in 30 ecology journals during a 10-yr period ending in 2017. The number of studies reported using R as their primary tool in data analysis increased linearly from 11.4% in 2008 to 58.0% in 2017. The top 10 packages reported were lme4, vegan, nlme, ape, MuMIn, MASS, mgcv, ade4, multcomp, and car. The increasing popularity of R has most likely furthered open science in ecological research because it can improve reproducibility of analyses and captures workflows when scripts and codes are included and shared. These findings may not be entirely unique to R because there are other programming languages used by ecologists, but they do strongly suggest that given the relatively high frequency of reported use of R, it is a significant component of contemporary analytics in the field of ecology.
学科主题	Ecology
出版地	HOBOKEN
WOS关键词	CODE
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000456857400026
资助机构	National Key Research and Development Project of China [2016YFC0500202] ; National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [41471044] ; NSERC DGNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ; NCEAS
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/19592]
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Muenchen, Robert A.] Univ Tennessee, OIT Res Comp Support, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA 2.Lortie, Christopher J.] York Univ, Dept Biol, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 5.Lortie, Christopher J.] Natl Ctr Ecol Anal & Synth, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 USA 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, Key State Lab Systemat & Evolutionary Bot, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lai, Jiangshan,Lortie, Christopher J.,Muenchen, Robert A.,et al. Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology[J]. ECOSPHERE,2019,10(1).
APA	Lai, Jiangshan,Lortie, Christopher J.,Muenchen, Robert A.,Yang, Jian,&Ma, Keping.(2019).Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology.ECOSPHERE,10(1).
MLA	Lai, Jiangshan,et al."Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology".ECOSPHERE 10.1(2019).