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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

0263-7758

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epd

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1019 8 8 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 19
Documents by Best Scientists*: 19
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 133
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.412
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environment and Planning D-society & Space?

The journal primarily tackles Politics, Social science, Gender studies, Law and Epistemology. The research on Politics tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Aesthetics, Context (language use), Political economy, State (polity) and Power (social and political). Studies on Aesthetics discussed in it link to the field of Anthropology.

The work on Social science tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Environmental ethics and Space (commercial competition). The Gender studies study featured in the journal draws connections with the study of Identity (social science).

  • Politics (22.50%)
  • Social science (18.48%)
  • Gender studies (14.31%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Towards a Politics of Mobility (1015 citations)
  • Theorizing Sociospatial Relations (708 citations)
  • 'Connected' presence: the emergence of a new repertoire for managing social relationships in a changing communication technoscape (567 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environment and Planning D-society & Space:

The most cited papers investigate areas of study like Social science, Politics, Gender studies, Space (commercial competition) and Epistemology. The studies on Social science discussed at the most cited publications can also contribute to research in the domains of Context (language use), Environmental ethics and Gentrification. The Politics research presented in the published articles focuses mostly on Political economy and, on occasion, topics in State (polity).

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Environment and Planning D-society & Space facilitates discussions on Political economy, Colonialism, Ethnology, Politics and Gender studies. It addresses concerns in Political economy which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Power (social and political), Capitalism, State (polity) and Debt. The subject of Art history, which is connected to the field of The arctic, serves as the foundation of the Colonialism research featured in Environment and Planning D-society & Space.

Ethnology research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Developed country, Indigenous, Jungle, Sovereignty and Ethnography. In addition to Politics research, the journal aims to explore topics under Epistemology, Action (philosophy) and Alienation. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Gender studies, it also covered topics in Displacement (psychology), Begging, Corporate governance and Praxis.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Encountering automation: Redefining bodies through stories of technological change (4 citations)
  • Coordinating office space: Digital technologies and the platformization of work: (4 citations)
  • Creative extraction: Black towns in white space: (3 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 Environment and Planning D-society & Space (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Nigel Thrift (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael Dear (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stuart Elden (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter Jackson (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • James D. Sidaway (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 Environment and Planning D-society & Space (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of British Columbia (83 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Bristol (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Durham University (59 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Cambridge (46 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University College London (43 papers) published 4 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, 4.35% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.73% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.61% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.67% of all publications and 50.00% 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.

Career Paths for Those Interested in Environment and Planning D-society & Space

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Top Publications

  • Affect and critique: A politics of boredom*:

    Ben Anderson

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • Why are “we” called “them”?: Storytelling and the contested terrain of post-conflict public formation

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Molar and molecular entanglements: Parenting, care and making home in the context of energy capitalism

    Ross Gordon;Ross Gordon;Theresa Harada;Gordon R Waitt

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events:

    Dan Fisher;Dan Fisher;Nick Gill;Nick Gill;Natalia Paszkiewicz

    (2021)
    6 Citations
  • Portraits for change: Refusal politics and liberatory futures

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • “The People’s Park is bigger, more freely located, more beautiful and – Our own park”: Workers, parks, and the spaces of class struggle in turn of the century Norrköping, Sweden

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Commemorating economic crisis at a liminal site: Memory, creativity and dissent at Achill Henge, Ireland:

    Tim Edensor;Thomas Sj Smith

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political

    (2023)
    0 Citations

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