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Environmental Communication
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Environmental Communication

1752-4032

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 375 21 28 11
Environmental Sciences 716 9 9 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 60
Documents by Best Scientists*: 58
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 57
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.21
Impact Factor: 4.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Climate change, Public relations, Environmental communication, Environmental ethics and Politics. While it focused on Climate change, it was also able to explore topics like Political economy, Framing (social sciences), Environmental resource management and Newspaper. Research in Newspaper discussed is concerned with the study of Media studies as a whole.

Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture centers on topics in Public relations, with a focus on Public engagement. Most of the Environmental communication studies addressed also intersect with Social psychology. Environmental ethics research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Law, Rhetorical question, Sustainability, Social science and Rhetoric.

  • Climate change (24.68%)
  • Public relations (20.59%)
  • Environmental communication (17.21%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment (543 citations)
  • From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement (182 citations)
  • Nature's “Crisis Disciplines”: Does Environmental Communication Have an Ethical Duty? (156 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture:

The journal publications generally zeroe in on subjects such as Climate change, Public relations, Environmental communication, Framing (social sciences) and Social psychology. The most cited papers explore issues in Climate change which can be linked to other research areas like Environmental resource management and Politics. The works on Public relations tackled in the most cited articles bring together disciplines like Social media and Public administration.

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

  • Law
  • Social science
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Climate change, Environmental communication, Framing (construction), Political economy and Environmental ethics. The work on Climate change tackled in it brings together disciplines like Cognitive psychology, Perception, News media, Environmental resource management and Skepticism. The News media study featured in Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture draws connections with the study of Framing (social sciences).

Issues in Environmental communication were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Government, Dialectic and Public administration. It holds forums on Political economy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Content analysis and Politics. While Media studies is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on Social media and 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Did the Blue Planet set the Agenda for Plastic Pollution? An Explorative Study on the Influence of a Documentary on the Public, Media and Political Agendas (7 citations)
  • Food for Thought: Investigating Communication Strategies to Counteract Moral Disengagement Regarding Meat Consumption (5 citations)
  • Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s Provincial North: Lessons Learned from Climate Champions (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 Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Mike S. Schäfer (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tarla Rai Peterson (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bruno Takahashi (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Tema Milstein (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anthony Leiserowitz (7 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 Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (15 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Utah (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • George Mason University (11 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Michigan State University (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Zurich (9 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, 1.11% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.35% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.99% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.22% of all publications and 49.44% 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.

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Top Publications

  • Environmental Literature as Persuasion: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Reading Climate Fiction

    Matthew Schneider-Mayerson;Abel Gustafson;Anthony Leiserowitz;Matthew H. Goldberg

    (2020)
    60 Citations
  • Learning from the Climate Change Debate to Avoid Polarisation on Negative Emissions

    Rebecca Colvin;Luke Kemp;Anita Talberg;Clare de Castella

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • #sustainablefashion – A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Fashion Discourse on Twitter

    Jeanette Orminski;Edson C. Tandoc;Benjamin H. Detenber

    (2021)
    48 Citations
  • Of Society, Nature, and Health: How Perceptions of Specific Risks and Benefits of Genetically Engineered Foods Shape Public Rejection

    Kathleen M. Rose;Dominique Brossard;Dietram A. Scheufele

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think with

    Sofie Joosse;Stina Powell;Hanna Bergeå;Steffen Böhm

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • The Uproar Over Gene-Edited Babies: A Semantic Network Analysis of CRISPR on Twitter

    Christopher Calabrese;Jieyu Ding;Benjamin Millam;George A. Barnett

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Societal Debates About Emerging Genetic Technologies: Toward a Science of Public Engagement

    Christopher D. Wirz;Dietram A. Scheufele;Dominique Brossard

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Measuring Americans’ Support for Adapting to ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Extreme Weather’

    (2021)
    24 Citations

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