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Environmental Conservation
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Environmental Conservation

0376-8929

Published by: Cambridge University Press

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environmental-conservation

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 252 81 68 14
Environmental Sciences 720 9 9 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 99
Documents by Best Scientists*: 78
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 103
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.66
Impact Factor: 2.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Conservation?

Environmental Conservation mainly tackles studies in Environmental protection, Environmental ethics, Ecology, Environmental resource management and Archaeology. Topics in Environmental protection were tackled in line with various other fields like Agroforestry, Socioeconomics, Wildlife and Environmental planning. Habitat, Biodiversity and Ecosystem are among the areas of Ecology tackled.

It links adjacent topics like Archaeology with Cover (algebra).

  • Environmental protection (20.51%)
  • Environmental ethics (13.32%)
  • Ecology (12.58%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models (4875 citations)
  • Convention on Biological Diversity (2459 citations)
  • Riverine flood plains: present state and future trends (1374 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Conservation:

The most cited articles explore disciplines such as Ecology, Environmental protection, Environmental resource management, Biodiversity and Agroforestry. The journal papers link adjacent topics like Ecology with Fishery. The works on Environmental protection tackled in the published papers bring together disciplines like Environmental planning, Wildlife, Deforestation, National park and Natural resource economics.

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

  • Ecology
  • World War II
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Biodiversity, Environmental planning, Wildlife, Ecology and Environmental ethics are among the topics commonly tackled in Environmental Conservation. In Environmental Conservation, Environmental resource management, Framing (social sciences), Window of opportunity, Sustainability and Process (engineering) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Biodiversity research. The research on Environmental resource management tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Habitat destruction, Landscape-scale conservation and Global biodiversity.

It explores issues in Environmental planning which can be linked to other research areas like Livelihood, Geodesign, Environmental governance, Government and Flood myth. The Ecology study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Snowball sampling. The studies in Anthropocene under the umbrella field of Environmental ethics overlap with concepts in CLARITY.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Re-conceptualizing the role(s) of science in biodiversity conservation (5 citations)
  • Successful management of invasive rats across a fragmented landscape (3 citations)
  • Connecting protected areas in the Iberian peninsula to facilitate climate change tracking (2 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 Conservation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Nicholas Polunin (146 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Arthur H. Westing (64 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Norman Myers (58 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Roger H. Charlier (52 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Asit K. Biswas (49 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 Conservation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (59 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of York (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (39 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • United Nations Environment Programme (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Cambridge (35 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, 35.90% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 28.00% of all publications and 60.00% 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.

Top Publications

  • Wildlife Insights: A Platform to Maximize the Potential of Camera Trap and Other Passive Sensor Wildlife Data for the Planet

    Jorge A Ahumada;Eric Fegraus;Tanya Birch;Nicole Flores

    (2020)
    181 Citations
  • Corporate responsibility and biodiversity conservation: challenges and opportunities for companies participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • Transdisciplinary science for improved conservation outcomes

    Chris Margules;Agni K Boedhihartono;James D Langston;Rebecca A Riggs

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Boots on the ground: the role of passive acoustic monitoring in evaluating anti-poaching patrols

    Christos Astaras;Joshua M Linder;Peter Wrege;Robinson Orume

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Governments commit to forest restoration, but what does it take to restore forests?

    (2022)
    23 Citations
  • Brazil’s Highway BR-319 demonstrates a crucial lack of environmental governance in Amazonia

    Maryane Bt Andrade;Lucas Ferrante;Philip M Fearnside

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • The first acts of Brazil’s new president: Lula’s new Amazon institutionality

    (2023)
    20 Citations
  • Promoting grazing or rewilding initiatives against rural exodus? The return of the wolf and other large carnivores must be considered

    Mariano R Recio;Håkan Sand;Emilio Virgós

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Hunting sustainability within two eastern Amazon Extractive Reserves

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas

    Kayode Atoba;Galen Newman;Samuel Brody;Wesley Highfield

    (2021)
    18 Citations

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