The search for pastoralism and rangeland metonyms in Scopus identified only 96,414 records out of a possible 71 million records. There were 79,245 records for rangelands, 19,133 for pastoralism and 1,644 for agropastoralism. A total of 19,626 records included metonyms for pastoralism or agropastoralism, while only 2,658 publications covered both pastoralism and rangelands.