Human Ecology

Top Research Topics at Human Ecology?

Human Ecology tackles a plethora of topics, such as Ecology, Agriculture, Environmental resource management, Agroforestry and Socioeconomics. The work on Agriculture tackled in it brings together disciplines like Agricultural economics and Land use.

• Ecology (13.27%)
• Agriculture (10.27%)
• Environmental resource management (8.79%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• The tragedy of the commons: twenty-two years later. (954 citations)
• Who knows? On the importance of identifying experts when researching local ecological knowledge (517 citations)
• Human ecology and crime: A routine activity approach (383 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Human Ecology:

The journal papers investigate areas of study like Ecology, Agroforestry, Agriculture, Environmental resource management and Land use. The most cited papers hold forums on Agriculture that merge themes from other disciplines such as Population growth and Agricultural economics. The works on Land use tackled in the published papers bring together disciplines like Sustainability and Amazon rainforest.

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

• World War II
• Ecology
• Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in Human Ecology are Demography, Agriculture, Livelihood, Socioeconomics and Indigenous. It addresses concerns in Agriculture which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Agroforestry, Production (economics), Environmental change, Psychological resilience and Landscape engineering. The Psychological resilience works featured in Human Ecology incorporate elements from Land use and China.

Some problems in Livelihood that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Context (language use) and Environmental planning. The Socioeconomics study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of National park. It explores topics in Indigenous which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Poverty, Climate change, Environmental ethics and Subsistence agriculture.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Secondary Forests and Agrarian Transitions: Insights from Nepal and Peru. (4 citations)
• What Is Secondary about Secondary Tropical Forest? Rethinking Forest Landscapes (4 citations)
• It’s Our Fault: A Global Comparison of Different Ways of Explaining Climate Change (3 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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Human Ecology (based on the number of publications) are:

• Metta Winter (52 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Andrej M Grjibovski (50 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Sheri Hall (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Stephen D'Angelo (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
• A B Gudkov (28 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Human Ecology (based on the number of publications) are:

• Russian Academy of Sciences (69 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
• Pennsylvania State University (40 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition,
• Rutgers University (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Northern (Arctic) Federal University (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Arizona State University (34 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 24.39% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.66% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.45% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.75% of all publications and 59.14% 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.