Hydrological Drought Research Literature Review for Africa, 2000-2024

Zaynab Bouhioui's review analyzes 25 publications on hydrological drought research from 2000 to 2024, with a focus on Africa. The work was sourced from Web of Science and Scopus and manually coded for methodology, geography, and institutional context. It highlights differences in scientific output and methodological diversity between Africa and other regions.

Use Cases

• Analyzing thematic evolution of drought research based on the structured conceptual framework described.
• Comparing methodological approaches between regions based on the coding of methodology type and geographic focus.
• Identifying gaps in advanced technique adoption based on the mention of underutilized machine learning and statistical modeling.
• Assessing scientific capacity challenges based on the reported limitations in data availability and research infrastructure.

Strengths

• Includes 25 manually coded publications from Web of Science and Scopus.
• Focuses on a specific 24-year time range from 2000 to 2024.
• Explicitly analyzes the use of specific drought indicators like SPI and SPEI.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 30.9 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Zaynab Bouhioui via figshare

Collection Method

Manual coding of publications identified through Web of Science and Scopus.

Time Range

2000-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-16 14:13:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Africa (with global comparison)