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Environmental Research Letters
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Environmental Research Letters

1748-9326

Published by: IOP Publishing

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 8 733 881 63
Environmental Sciences 16 1645 2176 89

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 3272
Documents by Best Scientists*: 3256
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 125
SCIMAGO H-index: 201
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.144
Impact Factor: 5.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Research Letters?

The journal focuses on Climatology, Climate change, Atmospheric sciences, Greenhouse gas and Global warming. In Environmental Research Letters, Climate model, Arctic and Precipitation are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Climatology research. In addition to Climate change research, it aims to explore topics under Agriculture, Environmental resource management, Natural resource economics, Ecosystem and Physical geography.

The study on Atmospheric sciences presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Aerosol.

  • Climatology (21.35%)
  • Climate change (21.14%)
  • Atmospheric sciences (13.10%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming (1344 citations)
  • Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality (1113 citations)
  • Worldwide electricity used in data centers (901 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Research Letters:

The journal articles cover a variety of subjects, including Climatology, Climate change, Greenhouse gas, Global warming and Atmospheric sciences. Climate model, Coupled model intercomparison project, Arctic, Precipitation and Vegetation are some topics wherein Climatology research discussed in the journal articles has an impact. The most cited articles address concerns in Climate change which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Hydrology, Agriculture, Crop yield and Environmental resource management.

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 Research Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Philippe Ciais (43 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Scott J. Goetz (35 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Arpad Horvath (34 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Daniel M. Kammen (31 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Joeri Rogelj (26 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous 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 Research Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (323 papers) published 42 papers at the last edition, 37 less than at the previous edition,
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (190 papers) published 30 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • ETH Zurich (154 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (142 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Maryland, College Park (137 papers) published 21 papers at the last edition, 5 more 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, 25.22% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 25.73% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.48% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.06% of all publications and 42.73% 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

  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018

    William F. Lamb;Thomas Wiedmann;Julia Pongratz;Robbie Andrew

    (2021)
    1052 Citations
  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Erik van Sebille;Stefano Aliani;Kara Lavender Law;Nikolai Maximenko

    (2020)
    862 Citations
  • A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

    Helmut Haberl;Dominik Wiedenhofer;Doris Virág;Gerald Kalt

    (2020)
    755 Citations
  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data

    Xuecao Li;Peng Gong;Yuyu Zhou;Jie Wang;Jie Wang

    (2020)
    672 Citations
  • Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

    Michael Goss;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;John T Abatzoglou;John T Abatzoglou;Ali Sarhadi

    (2020)
    583 Citations

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