Bibliometric analysis of ornamental grasses in China

Abstract: As a class of typical ornamental plants in gardens; ornamental grasses are increasingly being focused on by the landscape industry at home and abroad. Based on ornamental grass research papers published from 1989 to 2010, the publishing time period, authors and ornamental grass research highlights were summarized and analyzed using the bibliometric method in this paper. The results showed that the research of ornamental grasses mainly focused on physiology and biochemistry; occupying 39.10% of all the papers involved. The research were extensive and diversified with quite a few papers published in the last six years (61.80% in all the papers involved in the past 21 years). The specific research areas and authors of ornamental grasses are more concentrated but the research quality needs to be improved. This study could provide reference literature for researchers to identify research topics and discuss ornamental grass research as well as for librarians to collect and file the relevant journals.