Land Use Policy

Top Research Topics at Land Use Policy?

Land Use Policy covers a variety of subjects, including Land use, Agriculture, Environmental resource management, Environmental planning and Natural resource economics. The journal investigates Land use research which frequently intersects with Environmental protection. Land Use Policy holds forums on Agriculture that merges themes from other disciplines such as Agroforestry and Agricultural economics.

The journal facilitates discussions on Environmental resource management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Sustainability and Ecosystem services. The work on Environmental planning tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Government, Corporate governance and Urban planning. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Urban planning, apply to Urbanization as well.

• Land use (28.19%)
• Agriculture (19.73%)
• Environmental resource management (17.00%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Land use transitions: Socio-ecological feedback versus socio-economic change (664 citations)
• Assessing, mapping, and quantifying cultural ecosystem services at community level (627 citations)
• Key issues of land use in China and implications for policy making (529 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Land Use Policy:

The journal papers primarily focus on research topics in Land use, Environmental resource management, Agriculture, Environmental planning and Economic growth. The published papers link adjacent topics like Land use with Natural resource economics. The journal articles deal with Agriculture in conjunction with Agroforestry and similar fields in Deforestation.

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

• World War II
• Law
• Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Land use, Agroforestry, Natural resource economics, Environmental protection and Environmental resource management are among the topics commonly tackled in Land Use Policy. Aside from research in Land use, it also discusses Urban construction studies. Some problems in Agroforestry that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Productivity, Land-use planning, Atlantic forest and First nation.

While work presented in Land Use Policy provided substantial information on Natural resource economics, it also covered topics in Price level, Tropical forest, Dynamism, Forest cover and Speculation. Land Use Policy focuses on Environmental protection but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Land development, Environmental studies, Multiple use, Census and Sample (statistics). The journal explores research in Remote sensing (archaeology) and overlapping concepts in Agriculture and Land cover to expand the discourse in Environmental resource management.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Household determinants of competing land uses in the Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya (0 citations)
• A new methodology to measure the urban construction land-use efficiency based on the two-stage DEA model (0 citations)
• Rejuvenating ecosystem services through reclaiming degraded land for sustainable societal development: Implications for conservation and human wellbeing (0 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 Land Use Policy (based on the number of publications) are:

• Yansui Liu (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Abbas Rajabifard (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Peter H. Verburg (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Rohan Bennett (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Jaap Zevenbergen (21 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Land Use Policy (based on the number of publications) are:

• Wageningen University and Research Centre (171 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Chinese Academy of Sciences (166 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 24 less than at the previous edition,
• Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (89 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Hong Kong (69 papers) absent at the last edition,
• University of Melbourne (66 papers) absent at the last 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 2022 edition, 50.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.50% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.50% of all publications and 75.00% 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.