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Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 29 269 490 69
Environmental Sciences 31 268 509 64

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1016
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1388
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 53
SCIMAGO H-index: 218
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.872
Impact Factor: 10.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Resources Conservation and Recycling?

The concepts of Waste management, Environmental economics, Environmental engineering, Municipal solid waste and Sustainability are tackled in Resources Conservation and Recycling. The research on Waste management tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Life-cycle assessment and Raw material. While Life-cycle assessment is the focus of Resources Conservation and Recycling, it also provided insights into the studies of Environmental impact assessment and Greenhouse gas.

While work presented in Resources Conservation and Recycling provided substantial information on Environmental economics, it also covered topics in Production (economics), Circular economy and Operations management. Environmental engineering works presented in it have a specific focus on Wastewater. It links adjacent topics like Wastewater with Sewage treatment.

Municipal solid waste research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Waste collection. Resources Conservation and Recycling connects the study in Sustainability with the closely related area of Sustainable development.

  • Waste management (29.77%)
  • Environmental economics (11.40%)
  • Environmental engineering (11.18%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Conceptualizing the circular economy: An analysis of 114 definitions (1360 citations)
  • Energy- and greenhouse gas-based LCA of biofuel and bioenergy systems: Key issues, ranges and recommendations (733 citations)
  • Microwave heating applications in environmental engineering—a review (684 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Resources Conservation and Recycling:

The most cited papers cover a variety of subjects, including Waste management, Municipal solid waste, Environmental engineering, Life-cycle assessment and Environmental economics. The journal publications connects research in Waste management with the related topics of Raw material. The published articles focus on Life-cycle assessment but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Sustainability which is concerned with Supply chain.

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

  • Law
  • Ecology
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Resources Conservation and Recycling focuses on Environmental economics, China, Waste management, Greenhouse gas and Life-cycle assessment. Topics in Environmental economics were tackled in line with various other fields like Total cost, Context (language use), Process (engineering), Circular economy and Renewable energy. China research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Carbon neutrality, Consumption (economics), Natural resource economics and Agricultural economics.

Wastewater is part of Waste management studies tackled in the journal. The journal holds forums on Greenhouse gas that merges themes from other disciplines such as Access network, Resource (biology), Internet access, Cage and Developing country. It facilitates discussions on Life-cycle assessment that incorporate concepts from other fields like Global warming, Fly ash, Sustainability and Pervious concrete.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • What contributes more to life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of farm produce: Production, transportation, packaging, or food loss? (0 citations)
  • State of the art in the application of functionalized waste polymers in the built environment (0 citations)
  • Life-cycle assessment and multi-criteria performance evaluation of pervious concrete pavement with fly ash (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.

The top authors publishing in Resources Conservation and Recycling (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ernst Worrell (63 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul S Phillips (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jo Dewulf (36 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ming-Lang Tseng (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ming Xu (33 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 Resources Conservation and Recycling (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (144 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 29 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (141 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 20 less than at the previous edition,
  • Beijing Normal University (84 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 16 less than at the previous edition,
  • Utrecht University (68 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ghent University (60 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 7 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 2022 edition, 24.14% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.91% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.09% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.91% of all publications and 59.09% 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

  • A Comprehensive Review on Recycled Aggregate and Recycled Aggregate Concrete

    Bo Wang;Libo Yan;Qiuni Fu;Bohumil Kasal

    (2021)
    846 Citations
  • Severe air pollution events not avoided by reduced anthropogenic activities during COVID-19 outbreak

    Pengfei Wang;Pengfei Wang;Kaiyu Chen;Shengqiang Zhu;Peng Wang

    (2020)
    748 Citations
  • Challenges, opportunities, and innovations for effective solid waste management during and post COVID-19 pandemic

    Hari Bhakta Sharma;Kumar Raja Vanapalli;VR Shankar Cheela;VR Shankar Cheela;Ved Prakash Ranjan

    (2020)
    729 Citations
  • Recycling waste rubber tyres in construction materials and associated environmental considerations: A review

    Abbas Mohajerani;Lucas Burnett;John V. Smith;Stefan Markovski

    (2020)
    582 Citations
  • A Brave New World: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transitioning to Sustainable Supply and Production.

    Joseph Sarkis;Maurie J. Cohen;Paul Dewick;Patrick Schröder

    (2020)
    512 Citations
  • Recycling of landfill wastes (tyres, plastics and glass) in construction - A review on global waste generation, performance, application and future opportunities

    Wahid Ferdous;Allan Manalo;Rafat Siddique;Priyan Mendis

    (2021)
    489 Citations
  • Challenges and recent developments in supply and value chains of electric vehicle batteries: A sustainability perspective

    Unknown

    (2022)
    390 Citations
  • The impact of low-carbon city pilot policy on the total factor productivity of listed enterprises in China

    Hao Chen;Hao Chen;Wei Guo;Xue Feng;Wendong Wei

    (2021)
    380 Citations
  • Dynamic and causality interrelationships from municipal solid waste recycling to economic growth, carbon emissions and energy efficiency using a novel bootstrapping autoregressive distributed lag

    Asif Razzaq;Arshian Sharif;Arshian Sharif;Arsalan Najmi;Ming-Lang Tseng;Ming-Lang Tseng

    (2021)
    326 Citations
  • Industry 4.0 and circular economy: Operational excellence for sustainable reverse supply chain performance

    Navin K. Dev;Ravi Shankar;Fahham Hasan Qaiser

    (2020)
    324 Citations

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