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Environment, Development and Sustainability
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Environment, Development and Sustainability

1387-585X

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10668

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 147 134 194 29
Ecology and Evolution 261 39 49 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 612
Documents by Best Scientists*: 782
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 26
SCIMAGO H-index: 96
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.958
Impact Factor: 4.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environment, Development and Sustainability?

Environment, Development and Sustainability focuses largely on the fields of Sustainable development, Sustainability, Environmental resource management, Agriculture and Environmental planning. It explores topics in Sustainable development which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Economic growth, Context (language use), Livelihood, Natural resource economics and Environmental economics. The work on Livelihood addressed in it expands to the thematically related Socioeconomics.

The research on Sustainability tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Natural resource and Tourism. Environment, Development and Sustainability focuses on Agriculture but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Agroforestry, Climate change and Agricultural economics.

  • Sustainable development (61.09%)
  • Sustainability (21.68%)
  • Environmental resource management (13.38%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat (665 citations)
  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS OF THE APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED STATES (637 citations)
  • A New Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Development (261 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environment, Development and Sustainability:

The published articles mostly deal with topics like Sustainable development, Sustainability, Environmental resource management, Economic growth and Natural resource economics. Aside from discussions in Sustainable development, the published articles also deal with the subject of Agriculture which intersects with Socioeconomics disciplines. The published papers address concerns in the field of Environmental resource management by exploring it in line with topics in Climate change which intersect with Vulnerability subjects.

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, Development and Sustainability (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Luc Hens (32 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Luc Hens (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • David Pimentel (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sneha Gautam (14 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Swades Pal (12 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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, Development and Sustainability (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Tehran (37 papers) published 20 papers at the last edition, 16 more than at the previous edition,
  • Islamic Azad University (35 papers) published 24 papers at the last edition, 21 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (33 papers) published 20 papers at the last edition, 14 more than at the previous edition,
  • Flemish Institute for Technological Research (32 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel (24 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, 8.75% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 7.98% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.28% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.83% of all publications and 76.91% 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

  • Climate change and variability in Kenya: a review of impacts on agriculture and food security

    Benjamin Kipkemboi Kogo;Lalit Kumar;Richard Koech

    (2021)
    371 Citations
  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on waste management.

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Phebe Asantewaa Owusu

    (2021)
    358 Citations
  • Global assessment of environment, health and economic impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

    Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie;Phebe Asantewaa Owusu

    (2021)
    312 Citations
  • Current trends and prospects of tidal energy technology

    M. S. Chowdhury;Kazi Sajedur Rahman;Vidhya Selvanathan;Narissara Nuthammachot

    (2021)
    217 Citations
  • Variation of heavy metal accumulation in certain landscaping plants due to traffic density

    Aydin Turkyilmaz;Mehmet Cetin;Hakan Sevik;Kaan Isinkaralar

    (2020)
    152 Citations
  • An integrated approach to delineate the groundwater potential zones in Devdari watershed area of Akola district, Maharashtra, Central India

    Chaitanya B. Pande;Kanak N. Moharir;Sudhir Kumar Singh;Abhay M. Varade

    (2020)
    128 Citations
  • Drinking water quality assessment based on statistical analysis and three water quality indices (MWQI, IWQI and EWQI): a case study

    Unknown

    (2022)
    127 Citations
  • Long-term trend detection and spatiotemporal analysis of groundwater levels using GIS techniques in Lower Bhavani River basin, Tamil Nadu, India

    B. Anand;D. Karunanidhi;T. Subramani;K. Srinivasamoorthy

    (2020)
    106 Citations
  • Impact of landfill leachate on the groundwater quality in three cities of North India and health risk assessment

    Pooja Negi;Suman Mor;Khaiwal Ravindra

    (2020)
    103 Citations
  • Sustainability appraisal of desired contaminated groundwater remediation strategies: an information-entropy-based stochastic multi-criteria preference model

    Li He;Li He;Feng Shao;Lixia Ren

    (2021)
    94 Citations

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