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Environmental Justice
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Environmental Justice

1939-4071

Published by: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers

https://home.liebertpub.com/publications/environmental-justice/259/overview

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 643 17 15 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 41
Documents by Best Scientists*: 38
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 35
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.69
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Justice?

The journal investigates areas of study like Environmental justice, Environmental health, Environmental planning, Economic growth and Injustice. It focuses on Environmental justice but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Environmental protection, Public relations, Environmental resource management, Public administration and Politics. The Environmental resource management study featured in it draws parallels with the field of Climate change.

Topics in Environmental health explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Socioeconomic status and Public health. The in-depth study on Injustice also explores topics in the intersecting field of Criminology.

  • Environmental justice (51.00%)
  • Environmental health (16.06%)
  • Environmental planning (10.84%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Three R's: How Community Based Participatory Research Strengthens the Rigor, Relevance and Reach of Science. (159 citations)
  • Promoting Environmental Justice Through Urban Green Space Access: A Synopsis (116 citations)
  • How Planning and Zoning Contribute to Inequitable Development, Neighborhood Health, and Environmental Injustice (89 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Justice:

The published articles facilitate discussions on Environmental justice, Environmental planning, Environmental protection, Environmental health and Environmental resource management. While the most cited papers focused on Environmental justice, they were also able to explore topics like Land use, Environmental studies, Economic Justice, Social science and Sustainability. The journal papers with studies in Environmental planning featured incorporate elements of Urban planning and Built environment.

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

  • Law
  • China
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Environmental justice, Climate change, Criminology, Environmental planning and Agency (sociology) are the subjects of interest in Environmental Justice. It explores issues in Environmental justice which can be linked to other research areas like Race (biology), State (polity), Public administration, Health equity and Socioeconomic status. While the journal focused on Health equity, it was also able to explore topics like Development economics and Environmental health.

The research on Climate change featured in Environmental Justice combines topics in other fields like Poverty, Public economics, Socioeconomics and Vulnerability. In Environmental Justice, Racism and Injustice are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Criminology research. Concepts in Environmental protection, as well as related topics in Enforcement, are covered in the Agency (sociology) research presented in Environmental Justice.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Tracing the Flow of Oil and Gas: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Environmental Justice in Coastal Louisiana from 1980 to 2010 (2 citations)
  • Fiduciary Responsibility and the Green Energy Act, 2009 (Ontario, Canada). (2 citations)
  • Community Perspectives and Environmental Justice in California's San Joaquin Valley (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 Justice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Sacoby Wilson (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Edith M. Williams (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kristin Shrader-Frechette (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • DG Reyes (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Devon Payne-Sturges (5 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 Justice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Maryland, College Park (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Texas A&M University (9 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (7 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Davis (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (5 papers) published 2 papers 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, 16.88% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.31% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.19% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.19% of all publications and 45.31% 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

  • Meeting EAT-Lancet Food Consumption, Nutritional, and Environmental Health Standards: A U.S. Case Study across Racial and Ethnic Subgroups.

    Joe F. Bozeman;Sparkle Springfield;Thomas L. Theis

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Temporal Incidence and Prevalence of Bronchitis and Morbidities from Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 and PM10

    Patrick Amoatey;Yusef Omidi Khaniabadi;Pierre Sicard;Sajjad Ahmad Siddiqi

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Effects of Diesel Engine Emission Controls on Environmental Equity and Justice

    Regan F. Patterson;Robert A. Harley

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • A New Dataset Integrating Public Socioeconomic, Physical Risk, and Housing Data for Climate Justice Metrics: A Test-Case Study in Miami

    Marco Tedesco;Carolynne Grace Hultquist;Alex de Sherbinin

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Monitoring neighborhood concentrations of PM2.5 and black carbon: When using citywide averages underestimates impacts in a community with environmental justice issues

    Amanda L. Northcross;Shizuka Hsieh;Sacoby Wilson;Ebony Roper

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Drinking Water Disparities in North Carolina Communities Served by Private Wells

    (2023)
    8 Citations
  • Quantifying the Distribution of Environmental Health Threats and Hazards in Washington State Using a Cumulative Environmental Inequality Index.

    Esther Min;Millie Piazza;Vanessa E Galaviz;Erik Saganić

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • The Road to Justice40: Organizer and Policymaker Perspectives on the Historical Roots of and Solutions for Environmental Justice Inequities in U.S. Cities

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Houston Parks After Hurricane Harvey.

    Gaston A. Casillas;Natalie M. Johnson;Weihsueh A. Chiu;Juan Ramirez

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Forecasting Ambient Air Pollutants in Tehran, Iran

    Azizallah Dehghan;Narges Khanjani;Abbas Bahrampour;Gholamreza Goudarzi

    (2020)
    2 Citations

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