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Annual Review of Environment and Resources
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Annual Review of Environment and Resources

1543-5938

Published by: Annual Reviews

https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/energy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 119 66 40 26
Environmental Sciences 231 55 38 22

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 198
Documents by Best Scientists*: 100
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 18
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 16

Overview

Top Research Topics at Annual Review of Environment and Resources?

Environmental resource management, Climate change, Natural resource economics, Ecology and Sustainability are among the topics commonly tackled in Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Environmental resource management research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Corporate governance, Environmental planning and Ecosystem services. Corporate governance research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Environmental governance.

The Climate change study featured in it draws connections with the study of Climatology. The journal facilitates discussions on Natural resource economics that incorporate concepts from other fields like Agriculture, Food security and Greenhouse gas. Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Anthropocene and Deforestation studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Ecology presented.

The study on Sustainability presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Sustainable development.

  • Environmental resource management (23.05%)
  • Climate change (19.60%)
  • Natural resource economics (15.56%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (3296 citations)
  • Adaptation to Environmental Change: Contributions of a Resilience Framework (1386 citations)
  • DYNAMICS OFLAND-USE ANDLAND-COVERCHANGE INTROPICALREGIONS (1344 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Annual Review of Environment and Resources:

The most cited articles tackle a plethora of topics, such as Environmental resource management, Ecology, Ecosystem, Natural resource economics and Sustainability. The works on Environmental resource management tackled in the journal articles bring together disciplines like Biodiversity, Environmental planning, Ecosystem services, Corporate governance and Adaptive capacity. Issues in Ecosystem were discussed in the most cited articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Deforestation, Environmental change, Climate change and Biogeochemistry.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Sustainability
  • Climate change

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Climate change, Natural resource economics, Environmental economics, Public economics and Sustainability. Topics in Climate change explored in Annual Review of Environment and Resources were investigated in conjunction with research in Indigenous, Environmental resource management and Transformational leadership. The concepts on Natural resource economics presented in Annual Review of Environment and Resources can also apply to other research fields, including Forest transition and Economic progress.

The featured Public economics studies mainly concentrate on Discounting but also cover areas of interest in Environmental change. The studies in Sustainability featured incorporate elements of Clean technology and Resource (biology). Annual Review of Environment and Resources holds forums on Greenhouse gas that merges themes from other disciplines such as Biodiversity and Food security.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review (3 citations)
  • Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? (3 citations)
  • Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy Systems (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Annual Review of Environment and Resources (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Thomas P. Tomich (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ashok J. Gadgil (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Karen C. Seto (4 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • David S. Schimel (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (4 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Annual Review of Environment and Resources (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Oxford (24 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stanford University (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Yale University (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 25.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 25.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 29.17% of all publications and 20.83% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • The Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems and Reliant Human Communities

    Scott C. Doney;D. Shallin Busch;Sarah R. Cooley;Kristy J. Kroeker

    (2020)
    627 Citations
  • Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

    Isak Stoddard;Kevin Anderson;Kevin Anderson;Stuart Capstick;Wim Carton

    (2021)
    497 Citations
  • Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic

    Unknown

    (2022)
    423 Citations
  • Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis

    William C. Clark;Alicia G. Harley

    (2020)
    346 Citations
  • Urban Climates and Climate Change

    Valéry Masson;Aude Lemonsu;Julia Hidalgo;James Voogt

    (2020)
    320 Citations
  • Soil Microbiomes Under Climate Change and Implications for Carbon Cycling

    Dan Naylor;Natalie Sadler;Arunima Bhattacharjee;Emily B. Graham;Emily B. Graham

    (2020)
    314 Citations
  • Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

    Eduardo S. Brondízio;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas;Peter Bates;Joji Carino

    (2021)
    306 Citations
  • State of the World's Birds

    Unknown

    (2022)
    275 Citations

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