Citation patterns of publications using unmanned aerial vehicles in ecology and conservation

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are incorporated as an important part of the toolbox to complement existing methods used in studies in ecology. It is therefore useful to understand how publications concerning those studies accumulate citations over time. In this study I used 213 articles in which UAVs were used in the research and I investigated for potential factors underlying how many citations they received. I used metrics that were already...