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Journal of Political Ecology
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Journal of Political Ecology

1073-0451

Published by: University of Arizona

https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 743 11 13 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 16
Documents by Best Scientists*: 18
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.749
Impact Factor: 2.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Political Ecology?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Political ecology, Politics, Environmental ethics, Political economy and Economic history. Economy, Resource (biology), Sustainability and Livelihood are some topics wherein Political ecology research discussed in Journal of Political Ecology have an impact. The journal focuses on Politics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Indigenous, Natural resource, Corporate governance, State (polity) and Power (social and political).

In the journal, Social science and Environmentalism are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Environmental ethics research.

  • Political ecology (30.17%)
  • Politics (26.68%)
  • Environmental ethics (20.67%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements (512 citations)
  • Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas (168 citations)
  • Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas Slayter and Esther Wangari (eds) London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Reviewed by Helen Ross (152 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Political Ecology:

The journal papers mainly deal with areas of study such as Political ecology, Environmental ethics, Politics, Political economy and Sustainability. The most cited articles focus on Political ecology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Human geography, Positive economics, State (polity), Economy and Appropriation. The journal papers facilitate discussions in Capitalism as part of the larger field of Politics, however, they also tackle fields such as Northern italy.

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

  • Law
  • China
  • Social science

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Political ecology, Politics, Environmental ethics, Political economy and Context (language use). Journal of Political Ecology explores topics in Political ecology which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Livelihood, Critical geography, Colonialism, Relevance (law) and Appropriation. The Politics works featured in the journal incorporate elements from State (polity), Scholarship, Power (social and political) and Degrowth.

While State (polity) is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on Ecoregion and Environmental resource management. Topics in Environmental ethics were tackled in line with various other fields like Economic Justice, Trophy, Decolonization and Value (ethics). In addition to Political economy research, it aims to explore topics under Legitimacy, National park, Capitalism and Poaching.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Why militarized conservation may be counter-productive: illegal wildlife hunting as defiance (3 citations)
  • Book review of Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder (eds.). 2020. Global warming in local discourses: how communities around the world make sense of climate change (3 citations)
  • Enjoying extinction: philanthrocapitalism, jouissance, and 'excessive environmentourism' in the South African rhino poaching crisis (2 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 Journal of Political Ecology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Joan Martinez-Alier (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kirsten Valentine Cadieux (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Thomas K. Park (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Leah Temper (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alexander Dunlap (4 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 Journal of Political Ecology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Arizona (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Davis (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Lund University (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 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, 16.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.07% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.32% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.95% of all publications and 53.66% 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.

Potential Careers in Political Ecology

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Top Publications

  • Crisis conservation and green extraction: biodiversity offsets as spaces of double exception

    Philippe Le Billon

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference

    Francis Massé;Hannah Dickinson;Jared Margulies;Laure Joanny

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity

    Renata Blumberg;Helga Leitner;Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Seeing environmental injustices: the mechanics, devices and assumptions of environmental sustainability indices and indicators

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • Epistemic communities in political ecology: critical deconstruction or radical advocacy?

    (2022)
    11 Citations
  • Political ecology of security: tackling the illegal wildlife trade

    (2022)
    11 Citations
  • Between overstocking and extinction: conservation and the intensification of uneven wildlife geographies in Africa

    Bram Büscher

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Decolonizing biodiversity conservation

    (2024)
    4 Citations
  • Political ecology and ontology: is literal critical realism the answer? A response to Knudsen

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Relational environmental governance: A critical framework for praxis with the material world

    (2023)
    3 Citations

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