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Environmental Management
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Environmental Management

0364-152X

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/267

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 182 164 134 18
Environmental Sciences 331 77 82 16

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 346
Documents by Best Scientists*: 273
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 148
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.849
Impact Factor: 3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Management?

The journal focuses on Forest management, Environmental resource management, Ecology, Hydrology and Nature Conservation. Some problems in Forest management that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Ecology (disciplines), Environmental planning, Land use and Environmental protection. Environmental resource management research featured in Environmental Management incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Context (language use), Natural resource, Resource management, Environmental impact assessment and Sustainability.

Habitat, Ecosystem, Vegetation, Species richness and Biodiversity are all subfields of Ecology research that were featured in Environmental Management. Hydrology and Riparian zone are closely related fields of research discussed in Environmental Management.

  • Forest management (36.32%)
  • Environmental resource management (24.72%)
  • Ecology (17.32%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments (3222 citations)
  • Basic principles and ecological consequences of altered flow regimes for aquatic biodiversity. (2347 citations)
  • A hierarchical framework for stream habitat classification: Viewing streams in a watershed context (1873 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Management:

The published articles facilitate discussions on Forest management, Environmental resource management, Ecology, Hydrology and Environmental protection. In addition to Forest management research, the most cited papers aim to explore topics under Nature Conservation, Wetland, Vegetation and Land use. The published papers deal with Environmental resource management in conjunction with Natural resource and similar fields in Resource management.

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

  • Ecology
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of the journal are Forest management, Environmental planning, Context (language use), Agriculture and Ecology. Environmental resource management, Climate change, Habitat and Ecosystem services are some topics wherein Forest management research discussed in Environmental Management have an impact. It focuses on Environmental planning but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Indigenous, Natural resource, Biodiversity, Ecology (disciplines) and Corporate governance.

Environmental Management investigates Corporate governance research which frequently intersects with Citizen journalism.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Uses and Limitations of Social Media to Inform Visitor Use Management in Parks and Protected Areas: A Systematic Review. (10 citations)
  • Assessing the Impacts of Urban Land Use Changes on Regional Ecosystem Services According to Urban Green Space Policies Via the Patch-Based Cellular Automata Model (8 citations)
  • A Framework to Prioritize the Public Expectations from Water Treatment Plants based on Trapezoidal Type-2 Fuzzy Ahp Method. (5 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 Management (based on the number of publications) are:

  • 雅男 小幡 (53 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • 純子 竹内 (30 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • 善弘 見目 (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Philip M. Fearnside (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • David J. Schaeffer (16 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 Management (based on the number of publications) are:

  • United States Forest Service (165 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (142 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Geological Survey (122 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Colorado State University (115 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (114 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 24.39% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.19% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.68% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.90% of all publications and 63.23% 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

  • Uses and Limitations of Social Media to Inform Visitor Use Management in Parks and Protected Areas: A Systematic Review.

    Emily J. Wilkins;Spencer A. Wood;Jordan W. Smith

    (2021)
    160 Citations
  • Major Climate risks and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers in Coastal Bangladesh

    Jeetendra Prakash Aryal;Tek Bahadur Sapkota;Dil Bahadur Rahut;Timothy J Krupnik

    (2020)
    125 Citations
  • Have farmers had enough of experts

    Niki A. Rust;Petra Stankovics;Rebecca M. Jarvis;Zara Morris-Trainor

    (2021)
    116 Citations
  • Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin.

    Fernando Mayer Pelicice;Angelo Antonio Agostinho;Alberto Akama;José Dilermando Andrade Filho

    (2021)
    93 Citations
  • Deforestation Trajectories on a Development Frontier in the Brazilian Amazon: 35 Years of Settlement Colonization, Policy and Economic Shifts, and Land Accumulation

    Gabriel Cardoso Carrero;Gabriel Cardoso Carrero;Philip Martin Fearnside;Denis Ribeiro do Valle;Cristiano de Souza Alves

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • Perceived Climate Variability and Compounding Stressors: Implications for Risks to Livelihoods of Smallholder Indian Farmers

    Ranjay K. Singh;Anshuman Singh;Satyendra Kumar;Parvender Sheoran

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • Storage or Run-of-river Reservoirs: Exploring the Ecological Effects of Dam Operation on Stability and Species Interactions of Fish Assemblages

    Matheus T. Baumgartner;Pitágoras A. Piana;Gilmar Baumgartner;Luiz C. Gomes

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Battling Water Limits to Growth: Lessons from Water Trends in the Central Plateau of Iran.

    Alireza Sharifi;Ali Mirchi;Roghayeh Pirmoradian;Rasoul Mirabbasi

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Making a Difference: Planning for Engaged Participation in Environmental Research

    (2022)
    30 Citations

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