The Land System of the United States: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Land Use and Land Tenure. By Marion Clawson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. Pp. ix, 145. $3.75.

This article is a bibliometric analysis of articles published in Scopus indexed journals that discuss land certificates. Knowing how studies related to land certificates are progressing is the aim of this research. Data was collected from the Scopus database by using the keyword term "land certificate". The researchers analyzed and visualized the database obtained in the VosViewer software. The highest number of citations occurred in 2016-2020 was 31 citations. The most publication trend occurred in 2019 with 40 articles. Articles from the collaboration of three authors include 12 articles from Deininger K., 8 from Ritz B. 8 and 3 from Zhang I. The most common title terms are “policy, demography” (2000) 20 items, “environmental protection” (2005) 55 items, “human, female, male” (2010) 23 items, “certification, land tenure, land use” (2015) 24 items. Abstract as many as 52 items 'human', 41 items 'humans', 23 items 'certificate', and 21 items 'land use'. Moreover, the country that published the most land certificate articles was the United States with 64 articles, followed by China with 29 articles and Germany with 21 articles. Citation analysis in the article the land certificate shows an increase as well as a decrease. The highest citation rate occurred in 2020, while the citation of land titling articles decreased in 2021.

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Oil and gas plays (1995), federal lands, and land use, land cover of the onshore Gulf Coast region of the United States

Open-File Report ◽

10.3133/ofr99558 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Christopher P. Anderson ◽

Christopher J. Schenk ◽

R.M. Pollastro

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Gulf Coast ◽

The United States ◽

Land Use Land Cover ◽

Federal Lands ◽

Gulf Coast Region ◽

Coast Region

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND INTERNAL CONTROL FOR THE NATIONAL LAND SYSTEM OF THE USA

Accounting Historians Journal ◽

10.2308/0148-4184.21.1.189 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 189-213

Author(s):

Michael P. Schoderbek

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Internal Control ◽

The United States ◽

Record Keeping ◽

Governmental Accounting ◽

Land System ◽

The Usa ◽

And Control

This paper examines the early accounting practices that were used to administer the United States' national land system. These practices are of significance because they provide insights on early governmental accounting and they facilitated an orderly settlement of the western territories. The analysis focuses on the record-keeping and control practices that were developed to meet the provisions of the Land Act of 1800 and to account for land office transactions. These accounting procedures were extracted from the correspondence between the Department of the Treasury and the various land officers.

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