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Community Agroecology Network

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Research works
4
▼ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
317
78.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
Community Agroecology Network

Not ranked overall: Community Agroecology Network is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Community Agroecology Network work in?

In all years, 61% of research at Community Agroecology Network is in Life Sciences, 34% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (61%), Social Sciences (24%), Environmental Science (5%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 2 fractional works · 61.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 61.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 34.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 24.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workALL ITS WORKCommunityAgroecology…4fractional works, all years
Life Sciences61%Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences34%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 3 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences261.0%
    1. Social Sciences124.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting04.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.4%
    4. Psychology02.4%
    1. Environmental Science04.9%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

What are the most cited papers from Community Agroecology Network?

The most cited paper from Community Agroecology Network is "Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach" (V. Ernesto Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon, Roseann Cohen, 2012), with 431 citations. Next come "Explaining the ‘hungry farmer paradox’: Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets" (185) and "Integrating Agroecology and Participatory Action Research (PAR): Lessons from Central America" (182).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach V. Ernesto Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon, Roseann Cohen · Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 17 Dec 2012 431
2 Explaining the ‘hungry farmer paradox’: Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets Christopher M. Bacon, William A. Sundstrom, María Eugenia Flores Gómez et al. · Global Environmental Change Mar 2014 185
3 Integrating Agroecology and Participatory Action Research (PAR): Lessons from Central America V. Ernesto Méndez, Martha Caswell, Stephen R. Gliessman et al. · Sustainability Open access 28 Apr 2017 182
4 Building agroecology with people. Challenges of participatory methods to deepen on the agroecological transition in different contexts Daniel López García, Mamen Cuéllar-Padilla, Alexandre de Azevedo Olival et al. · Journal of Rural Studies Open access 7 Mar 2021 95
5 Gardener demographics, experience, and motivations drive differences in plant species richness and composition in urban gardens Stacy M. Philpott, Monika Egerer, Peter Bichier et al. · Ecology and Society Open access 2020 59
All 13 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Community Agroecology Network publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Agricultural Innovations and Practices and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Agriculture, Land Use, R…0Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development: 0 fractional worksMicrofinance and Financi…0Microfinance and Financial Inclusion: 0 fractional worksAgricultural Innovations…0Agricultural Innovations and Practices: 0 fractional works
General Agricultural and Biological SciencesEconomics and Econometrics

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  2. 2 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  4. 4 Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences Gender Studies 0 works
  6. 6 Global trade, sustainability, and social impact Strategy and Management 0 works
  7. 7 Organic Food and Agriculture Plant Science 0 works
  8. 8 Family Dynamics and Relationships Demography 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available25.5%not open74.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.7%domestic only68.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Community Agroecology Network's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021.

201020152020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Community Agroecology Network as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000061% in 2023.

0.000020%0.000040%Community Agroecology Network0.00000054% in 202420102020

Fractional works of Community Agroecology Network over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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