Terrestrial Water System Research Papers Database from a 2022 Scoping Review

A scoping literature review database developed by researchers at Stockholm University for a 2024 study on terrestrial water and Earth System connections. The database includes papers published up to the end of 2021, identified via a Web of Science search performed on April 22, 2022. It is organized into Excel sheets covering water flow, water storage, and water quality research at catchment to global scales.

Use Cases

• Analyzing methodological trends in water flow research based on manually extracted study method data.
• Mapping the geographic focus of water storage studies based on the manually extracted study region columns.
• Identifying research gaps in water quality studies at different spatial scales based on the manually extracted study scale data.

Strengths

• Data is structured into three distinct thematic sheets (water flow, storage, quality) for focused analysis.
• Includes manually extracted metadata on study method, scale, and region for each paper.
• Search methodology and source (Web of Science) are explicitly documented in the accompanying publication.

Limitations

• The exact number of papers (rows) is unknown, making scale assessment difficult.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the description.
• Data is based on a single search snapshot from April 2022 and includes papers only up to the end of 2021.

Provenance

Source

Mohanna Zarei & Georgia Destouni, Stockholm University

Collection Method

Scoping literature review using Web of Science search engine across all its databases.

Time Range

Papers published up to the end of 2021.

Geography

Global, with studies focused on catchment scale or larger.