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Environmental Evidence

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 206 67 59 17
Environmental Sciences 470 20 25 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 107
Documents by Best Scientists*: 91
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 47
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.382
Impact Factor: 5.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Evidence?

The journal facilitates discussions on Environmental resource management, Forest management, Biodiversity, Systematic review and Ecosystem services. Agriculture, Food security and Livelihood are some topics wherein Environmental resource management research discussed in Environmental Evidence have an impact. The study of Forest management encompasses disciplines such as Species richness, as well as fields such as Species diversity, all of which overlap with one another.

Environmental Evidence links adjacent topics like Biodiversity with Forest restoration. Environmental Evidence aims to bridge the gap between the study of Systematic review and research in different fields like Stakeholder engagement, Stakeholder, Public relations, Quality (business) and Scope (project management). The journal features research on Ecosystem services in an attempt to reinforce studies in the field of Ecosystem.

Topics in Agroforestry explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Soil carbon and Land use. Environmental Evidence connects the study in Ecology with the closely related area of Fishery. Environmental Evidence facilitated discussions that integrated Grey literature with the fields of Primary research, Protocol (science) and Data science.

  • Environmental resource management (46.69%)
  • Forest management (35.80%)
  • Biodiversity (19.84%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A methodology for systematic mapping in environmental sciences (204 citations)
  • ROSES RepOrting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses: pro forma , flow-diagram and descriptive summary of the plan and conduct of environmental systematic reviews and systematic maps (145 citations)
  • Human well-being impacts of terrestrial protected areas (122 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Evidence:

The journal papers are organized to reinforce research efforts on Environmental resource management, Systematic review, Ecology, Forest management and Soil carbon. The most cited articles hold forums on Environmental resource management that merge themes from other disciplines such as Natural resource management, Land use and Environmental planning. The journal articles deal with Forest management in conjunction with other fields like

  • Biodiversity and related Forest restoration,
  • Ecosystem services that connect with fields like Food security..

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

  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Environmental resource management, Forest management, Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Ecosystem services. Environmental Evidence focuses on Environmental resource management research which is adjacent to topics in Climate change. Forest management research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Stakeholder and Habitat.

The journal focuses on Biodiversity but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Abundance (ecology), Species richness and Relevance (information retrieval). Ecosystem research presented falls under the umbrella topic of Ecology. The studies in Ecosystem services featured incorporate elements of Biomass (ecology), Agriculture, MAP protocol and Marine ecosystem.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Identifying and addressing the anthropogenic drivers of global change in the North Sea: a systematic map protocol (1 citations)
  • What evidence exists on the impact of specific ecosystem components and functions on infectious diseases? A systematic map (1 citations)
  • A call for consistency with the terms ‘wetter’ and ‘drier’ in climate change studies (1 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 Evidence (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Neal R. Haddaway (37 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Andrew S. Pullin (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gillian Petrokofsky (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Biljana Macura (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Steven J. Cooke (18 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 Evidence (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Stockholm Environment Institute (45 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Bangor University (34 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Oxford (31 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (21 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Johannesburg (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous 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, 8.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 40.91% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.64% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.18% of all publications and 27.27% 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 the global redistribution of biodiversity: substantial variation in empirical support for expected range shifts

    Unknown

    (2023)
    204 Citations
  • What are the relative risks of mortality and injury for fish during downstream passage at hydroelectric dams in temperate regions? A systematic review

    Dirk A. Algera;Trina Rytwinski;Jessica J. Taylor;Joseph R. Bennett

    (2020)
    91 Citations
  • How effective is ‘greening’ of urban areas in reducing human exposure to ground-level ozone concentrations, UV exposure and the ‘urban heat island effect’? An updated systematic review

    (2021)
    58 Citations
  • Effects of artificial light on bird movement and distribution: a systematic map

    (2021)
    48 Citations
  • How effective are strategies to control the dissemination of antibiotic resistance in the environment? A systematic review

    Anaïs Goulas;Drifa Belhadi;Alexandre Descamps;Antoine Andremont

    (2020)
    48 Citations
  • Standards of conduct and reporting in evidence syntheses that could inform environmental policy and management decisions

    (2022)
    40 Citations
  • Management of UK priority invasive alien plants: a systematic review protocol

    Philip A. Martin;Gorm E. Shackelford;James M. Bullock;Belinda Gallardo;Belinda Gallardo

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • The global environmental agenda urgently needs a semantic web of knowledge

    (2022)
    33 Citations
  • What are the effects of herbivore diversity on tundra ecosystems? A systematic review protocol

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • What are the effects of flow-regime changes on fish productivity in temperate regions? A systematic map

    Trina Rytwinski;Meagan Harper;Jessica J. Taylor;Joseph R. Bennett

    (2020)
    29 Citations

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