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Parks

0960-233X

Published by: IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

https://parksjournal.com/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 384 27 25 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 33
Documents by Best Scientists*: 27
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 26
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.619
Impact Factor: N/A

Top Publications

  • Tourism in protected and conserved areas amid the covid-19 pandemic

    Anna Anna Spenceley;Steve McCool;David Newsome;Ana Báez

    (2021)
    158 Citations
  • Editorial essay: Covid-19 and protected and conserved areas

    Marc Hockings;Nigel Dudley;Wendy Elliott;Mariana Napolitano Ferreira

    (2020)
    118 Citations
  • Impacts of COVID-19 on protected and conserved areas: a global overview and regional perspectives

    (2021)
    54 Citations
  • COVID-19, Indigenous peoples, local communities and natural resource governance

    Gretchen Walters;Neema Pathak Broome;Marina Cracco;Tushar Dash

    (2021)
    42 Citations
  • Equitable and effective area‐based conservation: towards the conserved areas paradigm

    HD Jonas;GN Ahmadia;HC Bingham;J Briggs

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • Drivers and causes of zoonotic diseases: an overview

    Mariana Napolitano Ferreira;Wendy Ellio;Rachel Golden Kroner;Margaret F. Kinnaird

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Marine protected and conserved areas in the time of COVID

    Carol Phua;Dominic A. Andradi-Brown;Sangeeta Mangubhai;Gabby N. Ahmadia

    (2021)
    26 Citations
  • The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030): What can protected areas contribute?

    Nigel Dudley;Emily Gonzalez;James G. Hallett;Karen Keenleyside

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Land use-induced spillover: priority actions for protected and conserved area managers

    Jamie K. Reaser;Jamie K. Reaser;Gary M. Tabor;Daniel J. Becker;Philip Muruthi

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • There’s nothing new under the sun – lessons conservationists could learn from previous pandemics

    (2021)
    11 Citations

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