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Conservation and Society
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Conservation and Society

0972-4923

Published by: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

https://www.conservationandsociety.org.in/aboutus.asp

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 542 21 16 6
Social Sciences and Humanities 1202 6 6 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 33
Documents by Best Scientists*: 30
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 54
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.504
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Conservation and Society?

Conservation and Society was organized to reinforce research efforts on Environmental resource management, Politics, Livelihood, Indigenous and Corporate governance. While it focused on Environmental resource management, it was also able to explore topics like Forest management, National park, Biodiversity and Environmental planning. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on National park, apply to Wildlife as well.

The Biodiversity study featured falls within the wider field of Ecology. The studies on Politics discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Political economy, Decentralization and Public administration. It facilitates discussions on Political economy that incorporate concepts from other fields like Development economics and State (polity).

It focused on Public administration research but expanded to cover Democracy. Indigenous research is concerned with Traditional knowledge in particular. Corporate governance and Government are closely related fields of research discussed in it.

  • Environmental resource management (21.72%)
  • Politics (15.89%)
  • Livelihood (12.10%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Recent Instances for Debate (625 citations)
  • People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation (553 citations)
  • Neoliberal Conservation: A Brief Introduction (434 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Conservation and Society:

The most cited articles explore disciplines such as Environmental resource management, Politics, Livelihood, Corporate governance and Economic growth. The journal papers address concerns in Environmental resource management which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Forest management, Indigenous, Biodiversity and Ecosystem services. The most cited articles with studies in Politics featured incorporate elements of Political economy and Public administration.

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

  • Law
  • Ecology
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Wildlife, State (polity), Political economy, Politics and Environmental planning. Public discourse, Development economics, Presupposition and Normative are some topics wherein Wildlife research discussed in the journal have an impact. The studies in State (polity) featured incorporate elements of Empirical evidence, Criminology, State forest and Argument.

It addresses concerns in Political economy which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Expropriation, Dignity, Alienation, Rhinoceros and Threatened species. The journal explores Politics concepts, specifically Feminist political ecology but expands to research in Active listening. While Environmental planning is the focus of Conservation and Society, it also provided insights into the studies of Conservation status and Scope (project management).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Equity and Viability in Scholarly Publishing: Charting a Path for Conservation and Society (2 citations)
  • Convivial Conservation from the Bottom Up: Human-Bear Cohabitation in the Rodopi Mountains of Bulgaria (1 citations)
  • The Militarisation of Conservation and Occupational Violence in Sikumi Forest Reserve, Zimbabwe (1 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 Conservation and Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bram Büscher (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Lisa M. Campbell (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert Fletcher (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Dan Brockington (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harini Nagendra (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 Conservation and Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wildlife Conservation Society (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Duke University (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Oxford (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Center for International Forestry Research (10 papers) absent 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, 44.12% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.79% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.26% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 36.84% of all publications and 42.11% 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

  • Limits. Why Malthus was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

    Dan Brockington

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • An Ecological-Marxist Response to the Half-Earth Project

    Brian M Napoletano;Brett Clark

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation

    (2022)
    27 Citations
  • Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation

    (2023)
    15 Citations
  • The Silos of Natural Resource Governance: Implications of Sector-led Coastal Management at the Village Level in Kenya and Zanzibar-Tanzania

    Fiona Nunan;Marlyn A Omondi;Aziza Y Nchimbi;Mwita M Mangora

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Environmentalities of Coexistence with Wolves in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • Meaning, Belonging and Well-being: The Socio-psychological Benefits of Engaging in Private Land Conservation

    Maï Yasué;James B Kirkpatrick;Aidan Davison

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Wars over Wildlife: Green Militarisation and Just War Theory

    Amy Dickman;Paul J Johnson;Peter Coals;Lauren A Harrington

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Influence of Wildlife Crop Raiding on Subsistence Farmers' Food Security Adjacent to Hluhluwe Game Reserve, South Africa

    Tlou D Raphela;Neville Pillay

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • “They Belong Here”: Understanding the Conditions of Human-wolf Coexistence in North-Western Spain

    (2022)
    7 Citations

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