Datasets for access and benefit sharing of genetic resources bibliometrics analyses

First we did a broad search on 3 September 2019 using the terms “access and benefit sharing” AND “convention on biological diversity” in all fields for all articles, book chapters, reviews, books and conference papers for all years. This capture all possible instances of the search terms in the literature, but it also included publications where the terms were not central to the publication and indeed may only have appeared in the reference lists/bibliographies.

The hypothesis was that this strategy would identify the broadest scope of ABS literature including research in peripheral areas. We then repeated the search, again on 3 September 2019, but this time limited it to the publications that used the terms in titles, abstracts and/or keywords, and again for all years. The hypothesis was that publications focusing on ABS and CBD were more likely to prioritize the use of the terms in the titles, abstracts and/or keywords, but we recognise in doing so we may have excluded some relevant publications from this subset of publications from the broader search.