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Global Environmental Change

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 47 182 128 40
Environmental Sciences 64 170 157 51

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 516
Documents by Best Scientists*: 353
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 29
SCIMAGO H-index: 242
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.355
Impact Factor: 9.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions?

The scientific interests tackled in Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions are Climate change, Environmental resource management, Natural resource economics, Sustainability and Corporate governance. The research on Climate change featured in it combines topics in other fields like Agriculture, Politics and Greenhouse gas. It investigates Agriculture research which frequently intersects with Agricultural economics.

The work on Politics addressed in the journal expands to the thematically related Political economy. The journal explores research in Environmental resource management alongside concepts in Vulnerability and other areas of study in Psychological resilience. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Natural resource economics, it also covered topics in Deforestation and Land use.

The journal features studies on Land use, including topics such as Land use, land-use change and forestry. The in-depth study on Sustainability also explores topics in the intersecting field of Sustainable development. Environmental governance is part of Corporate governance studies tackled in the journal.

  • Climate change (30.31%)
  • Environmental resource management (30.27%)
  • Natural resource economics (15.05%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • RESILIENCE: THE EMERGENCE OF A PERSPECTIVE FOR SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ANALYSES (4127 citations)
  • Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability (3314 citations)
  • The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought (3070 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions:

The journal papers are organized to address concerns in the fields of Climate change, Environmental resource management, Vulnerability, Natural resource economics and Adaptive capacity. Agriculture, Climatology and Greenhouse gas are some topics wherein Climate change research discussed in the most cited articles has an impact. Issues in Environmental resource management were discussed in the published papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Environmental planning, Environmental change, Corporate governance, Psychological resilience and Sustainability.

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

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal aims to foster the development of research in Climate change, Natural resource economics, Sustainability, Corporate governance and Politics. Topics in Climate change were tackled in line with various other fields like Social psychology, Ecosystem services, Development economics, Socioeconomics and Renewable energy. It holds forums on Natural resource economics that merges themes from other disciplines such as Agriculture, Supply chain, Greenhouse gas, Consumption (economics) and Per capita.

Some problems in Sustainability that were presented in Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions overlapped with concepts under Action (philosophy), Stakeholder, Sustainable development, Environmental economics and Food security. The Corporate governance study featured in the journal draws connections with the study of Framing (social sciences). The Politics study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Political economy.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities (15 citations)
  • Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture (10 citations)
  • The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world (9 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 Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Detlef P. van Vuuren (34 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Nigel W. Arnell (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter H. Verburg (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Martin L. Parry (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • W. Neil Adger (14 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 Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of East Anglia (117 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (72 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (59 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Oxford (56 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • VU University Amsterdam (55 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 7 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, 7.80% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.08% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.69% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.15% of all publications and 43.08% 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

  • The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change

    Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Andreas Humpe

    (2020)
    479 Citations
  • Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario

    Joel Millward-Hopkins;Julia K. Steinberger;Julia K. Steinberger;Narasimha D. Rao;Narasimha D. Rao;Yannick Oswald

    (2020)
    372 Citations
  • Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations

    Unknown

    (2022)
    317 Citations
  • Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises

    Brent F. Kim;Raychel E. Santo;Allysan P. Scatterday;Jillian P. Fry

    (2020)
    258 Citations
  • Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity

    Katharina Waha;Jan Philipp Dietrich;Felix T. Portmann;Stefan Siebert

    (2020)
    247 Citations
  • The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities

    Christian Brand;Thomas Götschi;Evi Dons;Evi Dons;Regine Gerike

    (2021)
    236 Citations
  • Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970

    Lisette van Beek;Maarten Hajer;Peter Pelzer;Detlef van Vuuren;Detlef van Vuuren

    (2020)
    235 Citations
  • Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways

    (2022)
    177 Citations
  • Hard or soft flood adaptation? Advantages of a hybrid strategy for Shanghai

    Shiqiang Du;Shiqiang Du;Paolo Scussolini;Philip J. Ward;Min Zhang

    (2020)
    151 Citations

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