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Habitat International

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 256 22 44 21

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 88
Documents by Best Scientists*: 142
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 127
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.837
Impact Factor: 7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Habitat International?

The topics of Economic growth, China, Urban planning, Urbanization and Environmental planning are the focal point of discussions in the journal. Specifically, studies on Developing country are prevalent in the Economic growth works discussed. The research on China tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Land use and Economic geography.

In particular, the Urban planning works presented emphasize discussions on Urban density. Environmental planning research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Sustainability and Environmental resource management.

  • Economic growth (33.39%)
  • China (14.65%)
  • Urban planning (14.26%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Role of informal sector recycling in waste management in developing countries (595 citations)
  • The application of urban sustainability indicators – A comparison between various practices (450 citations)
  • Assessment of residential satisfaction in newly designed public low-cost housing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (323 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Habitat International:

The journal articles facilitate discussions on Economic growth, China, Urbanization, Urban planning and Developing country. The most cited articles focus on Economic growth but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Land development which is concerned with Land management. The journal articles facilitate discussions on Urban planning that incorporate concepts from other fields like Sustainability, Environmental protection and Environmental planning.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are China, Urbanization, Regional science, Economic geography and Environmental planning. Beijing is a focus of the presented China works and it dives deep in Beijing. The concepts on Beijing presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Urban planning, Metropolitan area and Restructuring.

The featured Urbanization research encompasses issues not only in the field but also those in the adjacent area of disciplines such as

  • Land use that connect with fields like Population growth, Scale (social sciences) and Transport engineering,
  • Neighbourhood (mathematics) which intersects with area such as Census.. While it focused on Environmental planning, it was also able to explore topics like Perspective (graphical), Livelihood and Sustainable development. Aside from discussions in Sustainable development, the journal also deals with the subject of Sustainability which intersects with Government disciplines.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Examining energy saving behaviors in student dormitories using an expanded theory of planned behavior (10 citations)
  • Achieving resilience through smart cities? Evidence from China (9 citations)
  • Impacts of changing urban land-use structure on sustainable city growth in China: A population-density dynamics perspective (7 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 Habitat International (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Eddie C.M. Hui (53 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Xiaoling Zhang (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Yuzhe Wu (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Edwin H.W. Chan (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Xianjin Huang (17 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 Habitat International (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (132 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Hong Kong (103 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (80 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • University College London (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Zhejiang University (64 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 5 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, 5.13% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.38% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.51% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.51% of all publications and 44.59% 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

  • China's poverty alleviation resettlement: Progress, problems and solutions

    Yuanyuan Yang;Alex de Sherbinin;Yansui Liu

    (2020)
    181 Citations
  • Quantitative identification and spatial analysis of land use ecological-production-living functions in rural areas on China's southeast coast

    Lilin Zou;Lilin Zou;Yansui Liu;Jianxin Yang;Shengfu Yang

    (2020)
    151 Citations
  • Measurement of urban-rural integration level and its spatial differentiation in China in the new century

    Yuanyuan Yang;Wenkai Bao;Yongsheng Wang;Yansui Liu

    (2021)
    133 Citations
  • High-quality development in China: Measurement system, spatial pattern, and improvement paths

    Wei Pan;Jing Wang;Zhi Lu;Yansui Liu

    (2021)
    115 Citations
  • A review of municipal solid waste management in the BRIC and high-income countries: A thematic framework for low-income countries

    H.O. Iyamu;M. Anda;G. Ho

    (2020)
    106 Citations
  • Monitoring global land-use efficiency in the context of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

    Ronald C. Estoque;Makoto Ooba;Takuya Togawa;Yasuaki Hijioka

    (2021)
    86 Citations
  • The nexus between regional eco-environmental degradation and rural impoverishment in China

    Yang Zhou;Yurui Li;Yansui Liu

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Impacts of changing urban land-use structure on sustainable city growth in China: A population-density dynamics perspective

    Xiaoqing Song;Qi Feng;Fangzhou Xia;Xinyi Li

    (2021)
    85 Citations
  • Modes and practices of rural vitalisation promoted by land consolidation in a rapidly urbanising China: A perspective of multifunctionality

    (2022)
    75 Citations
  • Using DMSP/OLS nighttime light data and K–means method to identify urban–rural fringe of megacities

    Zhao Feng;Jian Peng;Jiansheng Wu

    (2020)
    70 Citations

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