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Challenges
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Challenges

2078-1547

Published by: MDPI

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/challenges

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 669 10 7 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 57
Documents by Best Scientists*: 52
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Challenges?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Sustainability, Environmental ethics, Environmental planning, Public relations and Environmental resource management. The journal emphasizes research on Environmental ethics, which includes concerns such as Anthropocene.

  • Sustainability (7.43%)
  • Environmental ethics (6.76%)
  • Environmental planning (5.74%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology: Trends to 2030 (358 citations)
  • 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) Production from Hexoses: Limits of Heterogeneous Catalysis in Hydrothermal Conditions and Potential of Concentrated Aqueous Organic Acids as Reactive Solvent System (85 citations)
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Transforming a City into a “Zero Waste City” (59 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Challenges:

The most cited papers mostly deal with topics like Environmental resource management, Health promotion, Public health, Ecology and Sustainability. The journal publications with studies in Environmental resource management featured incorporate elements of Psychological intervention and Control (management). The most cited papers facilitate discussions on Sustainability that incorporate concepts from other fields like Waste management, Zero waste, Natural disaster, Risk analysis (engineering) and Cleaner production.

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

  • Ecology
  • China
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Challenges investigates areas of study like Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Mental health, Environmental ethics, Flourishing and Economic growth. It addresses concerns in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Demography, Health policy and 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak. It facilitates the exploration of Mental health in relation to the field of Psychological health.

While Environmental ethics is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Multilateralism, Normative ethics and Cultural globalization. The Flourishing works featured in Challenges incorporate elements from Health equity, Environmental justice and Empowerment. It explores issues in Economic growth which can be linked to other research areas like Pandemic, Disease burden, Set (psychology) and Summative assessment.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Healing Anthropocene Syndrome: Planetary Health Requires Remediation of the Toxic Post-Truth Environment (4 citations)
  • Catalyst Twenty-Twenty: Post-Traumatic Growth at Scales of Person, Place and Planet (2 citations)
  • Purposeful Evaluation of Scholarship in the Open Science Era (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 Challenges (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Susan L. Prescott (16 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Alan C. Logan (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Palmiro Poltronieri (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Glenn Laverack (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anders S. G. Andrae (5 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 Challenges (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Rochester Institute of Technology (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Eastern Finland (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Adelaide (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Huawei (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore (3 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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, 89.29% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 66.67% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 33.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 0.00% 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

  • Sustainability of Village Tank Cascade Systems of Sri Lanka: Exploring Cascade Anatomy and Socio-Ecological Nexus for Ecological Restoration Planning

    Sujith S. Ratnayake;Lalit Kumar;Punchi B. Dharmasena;Harsha K. Kadupitiya

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Towards Healthy Planet Diets—A Transdisciplinary Approach to Food Sustainability Challenges

    Stefan C. Dekker;Aletta D. Kraneveld;Jerry van Dijk;Agni Kalfagianni

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Tapestry Thinking: An Interview with Dr. Nalini Nadkarni on an Unexpected Life in Science

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Mobilising the Next Generation of Planetary Health Leaders: The Dynamism of Youth Engagement in Malaysia

    (2023)
    5 Citations
  • Biodiversity in Music Scores

    David G. Angeler

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • Outcomes from the First European Planetary Health Congress at ARTIS in Amsterdam

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • SARS-CoV-2 in Soil: A Microbial Perspective

    (2022)
    0 Citations

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