Commentary to: Fan et al. (2021) ‘A bibliometric analysis of the water-energy-food nexus based on the SCIE and SSCI database of the Web of Science’, Mitig. Adapt. Strateg. Glob. Chang. vol. 26, 8

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Fan et al. (2021) recently published a paper in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change entitled ‘A bibliometric analysis of the water-energy-food nexus based on the SCIE and SSCI database of the Web of Science’. Fan et al. stated in 2.1 Data sources that “We collected publications on the WEF nexus research topic using the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) databases in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection. The publication dates ranged from 1988 to 2019.” and “The search query was as follows: TS = (((water OR freshwater OR wastewater OR rainwater) AND (energy OR biofuel* OR electricity OR nuclear OR coal OR ‘natural gas’ OR oil OR ‘conventional gas’ OR ‘unconventional gas’ OR ‘wind power’ OR ‘generate power’ OR ‘thermoelectric power’ OR solar OR bioenergy OR hydropower) AND (food OR agricultur* OR crop* OR land) OR (water–energy–food OR energy–water–food OR food–water–energy OR water–food–energy OR energy–food–water OR food–energy–water)) AND (nexus OR couple OR coupling)).” …