Rebuttal to Peng et al. (2019). “Characteristics and development trends of ecohydrology in lakes and reservoirs: Insights from bibliometrics”. Ecohydrology, 12(3), article number: UNSP e2080

Peng et al. (2019) recently published a paper in this journal entitled “Characteristics and development trends of ecohydrology in lakes and reservoirs: Insights from bibliometrics.” The authors of this publication stated in Section 2.1 Search strategy that “The SCI Expanded database, Web of Science (Thompson Reuters Corporation, USA), was used in this study.” and “To cover the general subjects of lake ecohydrology, the following search strategy was used in this study: (TS = ((ecosystem* or phytoplankton* or zooplankton* or benthos* or macroinvertebrate* or macrophytes* or microbial*) and (“water level” or hydrology* or flow* or “water quantity” or wave* or current* or “hydrologic* residence* time” or “lake residence* period*” or “suspended solid*” or “water* temperature*” or light* or transparency* or sediment*) and (lake* or reservoir*))). The publication time period covered 1900 to 2017. The search was carried out on May 1, 2018.” Web of Science (Thompson Reuters Corporation, USA) does not exist anymore; it has been replaced by Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics, USA). Using the same method mentioned by Peng et al. (2019), we found 22,837 documents (Data last updated: 14 April, 2019). In our detailed examination, 3,951 (17% of the 22,837 documents), 3,362 (15%), and 4,158 (18%) documents did not mention (ecosystem* or phytoplankton* or zooplankton* or benthos* or macroinvertebrate* or macrophytes* or microbial*); (“water level” or hydrology* or flow* or “water quantity” or wave* or current* or “hydrologic* residence* time” or “lake residence* period*” or “suspended solid*” or “water* temperature*” or light* or transparency* or sediment*); and