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Regional Environmental Change
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Regional Environmental Change

1436-3798

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10113

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 114 192 170 26
Environmental Sciences 145 168 135 29

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 447
Documents by Best Scientists*: 336
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 21
SCIMAGO H-index: 99
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.091
Impact Factor: 3.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Regional Environmental Change?

The concepts of Climate change, Environmental resource management, Agriculture, Land use and Ecology are tackled in the journal. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Climate change, it also covered topics in Climatology, Precipitation, Nature Conservation, Physical geography and Vulnerability. The concepts on Climatology presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Mediterranean climate and Climate model.

The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Vulnerability, apply to Environmental planning as well. In addition to Environmental resource management research, it aims to explore topics under Livelihood, Ecosystem services, Corporate governance, Sustainability and Adaptive capacity. It addresses concerns in Agriculture which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Agroforestry, Natural resource economics and Environmental protection.

Agroforestry research discussed connects with the study of Deforestation. Land use studies presented include Land cover and Land use, land-use change and forestry. Habitat, Biodiversity, Vegetation and Ecosystem studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Ecology presented.

  • Climate change (62.95%)
  • Environmental resource management (28.70%)
  • Agriculture (15.38%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research (1206 citations)
  • On the nature of barriers to climate change adaptation (331 citations)
  • A meta-analysis of wetland contingent valuation studies (281 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Regional Environmental Change:

The journal publications are mainly concerned with subjects like Climate change, Environmental resource management, Agriculture, Vulnerability and Land use. The discussions in the published papers emphasized the topic of Climate change in an attempt to further explore the field of Ecology. The studies on Environmental resource management discussed at the most cited papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Ecosystem services, Corporate governance, Sustainability, Food security and Adaptive capacity.

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

  • Ecology
  • Law
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Regional Environmental Change primarily tackles Climate change, Agroforestry, Agriculture, Environmental planning and Deforestation. The research on Climate change featured in it combines topics in other fields like Livelihood, Land use, Ecosystem services, Nature Conservation and Environmental resource management. It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Environmental resource management and Natural regeneration.

The subject of Biodiversity, which is connected to the field of Species richness and Land use, land-use change and forestry, serves as the foundation of the Agroforestry research featured in it. The Agriculture works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Soil carbon, Irrigation, Climate model and Crop. In addition to Environmental planning research, Regional Environmental Change aims to explore topics under Corporate governance, Psychological resilience and Public policy.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Consequences of climate change on airborne pollen in Bavaria, Central Europe (9 citations)
  • Possible changes in spatial distribution of walnut (Juglans regia L.) in Europe under warming climate (4 citations)
  • Cross-jurisdictional insights from forest practitioners on novel climate-adaptive options for Canada’s forests (4 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 Regional Environmental Change (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Marc J. Metzger (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter H. Verburg (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wolfgang Cramer (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • James D. Ford (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Ian P. Holman (11 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 Regional Environmental Change (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (100 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (65 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • VU University Amsterdam (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (47 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • ETH Zurich (33 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 2021 edition, 8.57% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.58% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.29% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.00% of all publications and 53.12% 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

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

    (2020)
    411 Citations
  • Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa

    Janpeter Schilling;Elke Hertig;Yves Tramblay;Jürgen Scheffran

    (2020)
    374 Citations
  • Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation

    Adelle Thomas;Emily Theokritoff;Alexandra Lesnikowski;Diana Reckien

    (2021)
    95 Citations
  • The future for Mediterranean wetlands: 50 key issues and 50 important conservation research questions.

    Nigel G. Taylor;Patrick Grillas;Hazem Al Hreisha;Özge Balkız

    (2021)
    86 Citations
  • Climate change in the Eastern Amazon: crop-pollinator and occurrence-restricted bees are potentially more affected

    (2020)
    82 Citations
  • Defining the solution space to accelerate climate change adaptation

    Marjolijn Haasnoot;Robbert Biesbroek;Judy Lawrence;Veruska Muccione

    (2020)
    82 Citations
  • Earth Observation for agricultural drought monitoring in the Pannonian Basin (southeastern Europe): current state and future directions

    Laura Crocetti;Matthias Forkel;Milan Fischer;František Jurečka

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • Dynamics and drivers of land use and land cover changes in Bangladesh

    Xiaoming Xu;Suravi Shrestha;Hammad Gilani;Murali K. Gumma

    (2020)
    61 Citations

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