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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 83 60 80 31
Environmental Sciences 135 68 86 31

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 196
Documents by Best Scientists*: 179
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 133
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.15
Impact Factor: 6.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability?

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Sustainability, Environmental resource management, Climate change, Environmental planning and Corporate governance. The studies on Sustainability discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Public relations, Knowledge management and Sustainable development. Issues in Environmental resource management were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Biodiversity, Land use, Ecosystem, Ecosystem services and Natural resource economics.

The study on Natural resource economics presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Agriculture. The majority of Agriculture studies in the journal are focused on the subject of Food security. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability facilitates discussions on Climate change that incorporate concepts from other fields like Vulnerability and Greenhouse gas.

The work on Corporate governance addressed in the journal expands to the thematically related Economic system.

  • Sustainability (29.28%)
  • Environmental resource management (27.78%)
  • Climate change (18.34%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people (1026 citations)
  • Valuing nature's contributions to people: the IPBES approach (601 citations)
  • Transdisciplinary global change research: The co-creation of knowledge for sustainability (433 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability:

The published papers are mainly concerned with subjects like Environmental resource management, Sustainability, Ecosystem services, Climate change and Environmental planning. The published papers facilitate discussions on Environmental resource management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Biodiversity, Land use, Corporate governance, Natural resource economics and Food security. The journal articles deal with Sustainability in conjunction with Management science and similar fields in Set (psychology).

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

  • Ecology
  • Sustainability
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability are Climate change, Sustainability, Environmental planning, Livelihood and Sustainable development. While it focused on Climate change, it was also able to explore topics like Action (philosophy), Agriculture, Food security, Loss and damage and Development economics. While Sustainability is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on Transformative learning and Economic system and Social transformation.

The work on Livelihood tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Natural resource, Desertification, Transformational leadership and Ecosystem services. The studies in Ecosystem featured incorporate elements of Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Conceptual framework, Environmental resource management and Land degradation. The journal explores issues in Environmental resource management which can be linked to other research areas like Ecological systems theory and Process (engineering).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability (10 citations)
  • The Mezquital Valley from the perspective of the new Dryland Development Paradigm (DDP): present and future challenges to achieve sustainable development (4 citations)
  • Food system narratives to end hunger: extractive versus regenerative (4 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 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bojie Fu (20 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition,
  • Carolien Kroeze (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joyeeta Gupta (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rik Leemans (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harold A. Mooney (12 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 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (150 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (47 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 11 more than at the previous edition,
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (37 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • VU University Amsterdam (35 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • World Agroforestry Centre (33 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, 4.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 32.63% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.32% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.95% 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

  • Transformations to Sustainability: Combining Structural, Systemic and Enabling Approaches

    Ian Scoones;Andrew Stirling;Dinesh Abrol;Joanes Atela

    (2020)
    622 Citations
  • Working with indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature's linkages with people

    Rosemary Hill;Çiğdem Adem;Wilfred V. Alangui;Zsolt Molnár

    (2020)
    358 Citations
  • Actionable knowledge and the art of engagement

    Katharine J Mach;Maria Carmen Lemos;Alison M Meadow;Carina Wyborn

    (2020)
    280 Citations
  • Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development

    Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers;Jona Razzaque;Pamela McElwee;Esther Turnhout

    (2021)
    209 Citations
  • An inclusive future: disabled populations in the context of climate and environmental change

    (2022)
    112 Citations
  • Great expectations? Reconciling the aspiration, outcome, and possibility of co-production

    Kripa Jagannathan;Kripa Jagannathan;James C Arnott;Carina Wyborn;Nicole Klenk

    (2020)
    112 Citations
  • Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk

    Jeroen P van der Sluijs;Jeroen P van der Sluijs

    (2020)
    107 Citations
  • Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda

    G.S. Cumming;G. Epstein;G. Epstein;J.M. Anderies;C.I. Apetrei

    (2020)
    97 Citations

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