This seems essential, especially in ecology, but does not appear to be one of the metrics indexed by Web of Science or Scopus in published papers. Am I missing something? If not, can we start a movement?
Bibliometrics are tools that can be used in the preaward phase for a number of things. It can be used to document and justify the role of the researcher and the research team for being partners or coordinators of the project. Often CVs of the involved partners have to be provided with publication lists and other types of bibliometric information (H-index, Journal impact factor, and so on). Bibliometrics can also be used to identify key partners, through surveys of who are the most appropriate contributors in the field. As a research administrator, basic knowledge of the terminology and tools of bibliometrics is important, and good links with your organization’s library or analytic groups are equally important. In Fig. 6.9 a list of keywords in bibliometrics and resources available is provided.
When I did the lit review for the camera trapping paper I had to go into each individual paper to find study location.
The answer is no (as far as I know). Sometimes the study location is mentioned in the title, keywords or abstract which helps of course. But generally I fully agree that adding the place (region) which is studied or where the analysis is performed as a separate item in a bibliographic record would be of interest in many fields.
Citation databases don't contain such a field. However, for many research disciplines, such a field wouldn't make any sense. If this question is about ecology, then perhaps it's worth creating a new reference database specifically for ecologists with the field "Location"? I think that the information for this new metadata field could be obtained from the paper's full texts, especially the Methodology section, but also from the abstracts and titles.
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