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Environmental Development
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Environmental Development

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 388 25 21 10
Environmental Sciences 392 36 35 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 118
Documents by Best Scientists*: 98
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 59
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.272
Impact Factor: 5.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental development?

Environmental development facilitates discussions on Environmental resource management, Sustainability, Climate change, Agriculture and Environmental planning. The Environmental resource management works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Marine ecosystem, Large marine ecosystem, Sustainable development and Corporate governance. Issues in Large marine ecosystem were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Goods and services, Oceanography, Fishery and Fisheries management.

The journal explores topics in Sustainability which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Economic growth, Natural resource economics and Ecosystem services. The Natural resource economics study featured in the journal draws parallels with the field of Greenhouse gas. It connects research in Ecosystem services with the related topic of Land use.

The Climate change study featured in it draws connections with the study of Vulnerability. Environmental development explores research in Agriculture and the adjacent study of Agroforestry. The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Environmental planning and Livelihood.

  • Environmental resource management (26.65%)
  • Sustainability (17.10%)
  • Climate change (16.91%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The role of biomass and bioenergy in a future bioeconomy: Policies and facts (433 citations)
  • Environmental sciences, sustainable development and circular economy: Alternative concepts for trans-disciplinary research (385 citations)
  • Third Pole Environment (TPE) (335 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental development:

The most cited articles tackle a plethora of topics, such as Environmental resource management, Climate change, Sustainability, Natural resource economics and Agriculture. The published articles focus on Environmental resource management but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Food security, Livelihood and Environmental planning. Issues in Agriculture were discussed in the most cited publications, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Agroforestry, Bioenergy, Agricultural economics, Land use and Greenhouse gas.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Environmental development is mainly concerned with subjects like Climate change, Sustainability, Agriculture, Ecosystem services and Land use. Environmental development focuses on Climate change but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Water resource management, Greenhouse gas and Environmental planning. While Sustainability is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Water use and Sustainable development.

Agriculture research presented in Environmental development encompasses a variety of subjects, including Marketing, Agricultural economics and Water resources. Research in Environmental resource management and the interrelating topic of Natural resource were among the subjects of interest in the Ecosystem services studies discussed in it. The overlapping concepts between Natural resource economics and Resource (biology) are the key highlights of Land use study.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Smart energy cities: The evolution of the city-energy-sustainability nexus (7 citations)
  • Carbon capture and storage as a strategic reserve against China's CO2 emissions (7 citations)
  • Predictors of access to and willingness to pay for climate information services in north-eastern Ghana: A gendered perspective (7 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 development (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Natarajan Ishwaran (9 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Lin Zhen (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yonglong Lu (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kenneth E. Sherman (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hashali Hamukuaya (6 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 development (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (33 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 15 less than at the previous edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • United Nations Development Programme (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Instituto Politécnico Nacional (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of São Paulo (8 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, 10.96% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.31% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.31% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.85% of all publications and 61.54% 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

  • Spatial variability of sustainable development goals in China: A provincial level evaluation

    Yichao Wang;Yonglong Lu;Guizhen He;Chenchen Wang

    (2020)
    73 Citations
  • Urban water security: A comparative assessment and policy analysis of five cities in diverse developing countries of Asia

    (2022)
    70 Citations
  • Predictors of access to and willingness to pay for climate information services in north-eastern Ghana: A gendered perspective

    Philip Antwi-Agyei;Kofi Amanor;Jonathan N. Hogarh;Andrew J. Dougill

    (2021)
    53 Citations
  • Carbon capture and storage as a strategic reserve against China's CO2 emissions

    Congbin Xu;Congbin Xu;Jingjing Yang;Li He;Wenxia Wei

    (2021)
    53 Citations
  • Towards weather and climate services that integrate indigenous and scientific forecasts to improve forecast reliability and acceptability in Ghana

    (2022)
    43 Citations
  • Putting the Ecosystem Services idea at work: Applications on impact assessment and territorial planning

    Luciana Staiano;Gonzalo H. Camba Sans;Pablo Baldassini;Federico Gallego

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • The limits of livelihood diversification and sustainable household well-being, evidence from China

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Livelihoods transformation and climate change adaptation: The case of smallholder water buffalo farmers in the Philippines

    Jacquelyn F. Escarcha;Jonatan A. Lassa;Eric P. Palacpac;Kerstin K. Zander;Kerstin K. Zander

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • The stock-flow-service nexus of personal mobility in an urban context: Vienna, Austria

    Doris Virág;Dominik Wiedenhofer;Willi Haas;Helmut Haberl

    (2021)
    28 Citations

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