Table 4.
Number of documents and percentage (in brackets), total citations, and average number of citations per paper according to the general animal-based measures (ABM) root, ending and codified terms.
| General ABM root termb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papers in which the general ABM ending term is useda | Animal based/animal-based (AB) | Animal related/animal-related (AR) | Welfare outcome (WO) | Outcome based/outcome-based (OB) | Number of papers in which more than one term was used | ||
| Papers in which the general ABM root term is useda | 172 (87%) | 16 (8%) | 25 (13%) | 24 (12%) | |||
| General ABM ending term | Measure(s) | 139 (70%) | 122 (71%) | 3 (19%) | 18 (72%) | 21 (87%) | 23 |
| Parameter(s) | 48 (24%) | 43 (25%) | 10 (62%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 4 | |
| Indicator(s) | 74 (37%) | 67 (39%) | 6 (38%) | 8 (32%) | 3 (13%) | 10 | |
| Outcome(s) | 9 (5%) | 9 (6%) | 0 (0%) | 0 | |||
| Total citations (TC) | 2,682 | 417 | 382 | 521 | |||
| TC/number of papers | 15.6 | 26.1 | 15.3 | 21.7 | |||
a
Overall percentage expressed on the total number of 199 retained documents.
b
Percentage expressed on 172 (AB), 16 (AR), 25 (WO), and 24 documents (OB), respectively.