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Environmental Defense Fund

In research, Environmental Defense Fund stands highest in Physical Sciences (#4,054 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Science (Global and Planetary Change is 29.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#9,885
of 22,385 · #4,057 all time
Rank in United States
#1,349
of 3,332
Research works
628
▲ 15% vs 2018-21
Citations
21k
34.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.13×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Environmental Defense Fund

What is Environmental Defense Fund known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #4,054 of 10,670 19.4%91 #2289

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Environmental Defense Fund sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Environmental Defense Fund work in?

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Environmental Defense Fund is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (48%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 111 fractional works · 72.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 75 fractional works · 48.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 34 fractional works · 22.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 8 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEcology: 8 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 fractional works · 9.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 9 fractional works · 5.9% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 7.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Energy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 15.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 6.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 9 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 14 fractional works · 9.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 fractional works · 8.1% of its workSoil Science: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKEnvironmentalDefense Fund154fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences72%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences15%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science7548.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences149.0%
    3. Engineering127.7%
    4. Energy63.8%
    5. Computer Science21.2%
    6. Chemical Engineering10.6%
    7. Materials Science10.5%
    8. Chemistry10.5%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.3%
    10. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Social Sciences106.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance106.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting21.0%
    4. Psychology10.5%
    5. Decision Sciences10.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences128.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.5%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    4. Neuroscience00.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Medicine42.4%
    2. Health Professions21.2%
    3. Nursing00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Environmental Defense Fund specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Global and Planetary Change takes 29.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 34.2 works29×
  2. Environmental ScienceField · 74.6 works9.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1.70× its world share, 12 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.80× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.71× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 4.16× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.51× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.73× its world share, 75 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.91× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.73×75 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.71×14 works
  3. Energy4.16×6 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.91×10 works
  5. Chemical Engineering1.80×1 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.70×12 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.54×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.52×10 works
  9. Engineering0.51×12 works
  10. Health Professions0.47×2 works
  11. Nursing0.39×0 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.38×1 works
  13. Chemistry0.33×1 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.31×2 works
  15. Mathematics0.18×0 works
  16. Psychology0.18×1 works
  17. Computer Science0.15×2 works
  18. Materials Science0.15×1 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.15×0 works
  20. Medicine0.12×4 works
  21. Neuroscience0.11×0 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.10×0 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×1 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Environmental Defense Fund?

Ranked on the quality score, Mark Omara, Steven P. Hamburg and Ritesh Gautam lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Environmental Defense Fund.

  1. 1 Mark Omara United States · #36,010 worldwide 4.2k citations · 109 works
  2. 2 Steven P. Hamburg United States · #41,874 worldwide 15k citations · 212 works
  3. 3 Ritesh Gautam United States · #45,032 worldwide 7k citations · 194 works
  4. 4 David Richard Lyon United States · #60,741 worldwide 6.2k citations · 101 works
  5. 5 Daniel Zavala‐Araiza United States · #65,150 worldwide 5.8k citations · 113 works
  6. 6 Kristin M. Kleisner United States · #104,874 worldwide 6.6k citations · 107 works
  7. 7 Rod M. Fujita United States · #194,980 worldwide 10k citations · 67 works
  8. 8 Stephan Schwartzman United States · #238,462 worldwide 4.5k citations · 44 works
  9. 9 Rainer Romero‐Canyas United States · #245,442 worldwide 1.9k citations · 55 works
  10. 10 Alison J. Eagle United States · #280,954 worldwide 2.4k citations · 68 works
All ranked researchers at Environmental Defense Fund

What are the most cited papers from Environmental Defense Fund?

The most cited paper from Environmental Defense Fund is "Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100" (Osvaldo E. Sala, F. Stuart Chapin, Iii. et al., 2000), with 9,345 citations. Next come "Quantifying Threats to Imperiled Species in the United States" (3,127) and "Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies" (3,068).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100 Osvaldo E. Sala, F. Stuart Chapin, Iii. et al. · Science 10 Mar 2000 9,345
2 Quantifying Threats to Imperiled Species in the United States David S. Wilcove, David E. Rothstein, Jason Dubow et al. · BioScience Open access Aug 1998 3,127
3 Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies Rosamond L. Naylor, Rebecca J. Goldburg, Jurgenne H. Primavera et al. · Nature Jun 2000 3,068
4 Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain Ramón A. Alvarez et al. · Science Open access 21 Jun 2018 1,270
5 Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean Peter J. Mumby, Alasdair J. Edwards, Jesús Ernesto Arias‐González et al. · Nature Feb 2004 1,125
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Environmental Defense Fund?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Water Quality, Shale Gas, Emissions, Satellite Observations, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing and Atmospheric.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change41▲ 9.8×60 topics
  2. Water Quality16▲ 26×8 topics
  3. Sustainability16▲ 4.1×30 topics
  4. Shale Gas15▲ 82×2 topics
  5. Emissions14▲ 47×3 topics
  6. Satellite Observations14▲ 89×2 topics
  7. Natural Gas14▲ 96×3 topics
  8. Hydraulic Fracturing13▲ 81×2 topics
  9. Atmospheric13▲ 182×1 topic
  10. Methane13▲ 182×1 topic
  11. Environmental Impact11▲ 4.3×21 topics
  12. Renewable Energy10▲ 4.5×17 topics
  13. Remote Sensing9▲ 5.0×17 topics
  14. Global Warming9▲ 14×12 topics
  15. Health Effects9▲ 10×7 topics
  16. Greenhouse Gas Emissions9▲ 21×7 topics
  17. Air Quality8▲ 29×6 topics
  18. Vulnerability8▲ 21×7 topics
  19. Air Pollution7▲ 36×3 topics
  20. Mortality7▲ 7.6×4 topics
  21. Energy Transition6▲ 24×3 topics
  22. Particulate Matter6▲ 25×2 topics
  23. Resilience5▲ 7.0×4 topics
  24. Biodiversity Conservation5▲ 9.0×9 topics
  25. Microbial Communities5▲ 7.8×3 topics
  26. Climate Change Adaptation5▲ 18×3 topics
  27. Hydrological Modeling5▲ 13×3 topics
  28. Risk Perception5▲ 12×3 topics
  29. Global Burden of Disease5▲ 12×3 topics
  30. Atmospheric Aerosols5▲ 53×1 topic
  31. Black Carbon5▲ 53×1 topic
  32. Environmental Policy5▲ 15×4 topics
  33. Exposure Assessment4▲ 31×1 topic
  34. Fine Particulate Air Pollution4▲ 31×1 topic
  35. Social-Ecological Systems4▲ 20×3 topics
  36. Soil Carbon Sequestration4▲ 32×2 topics
  37. Satellite Imagery4▲ 19×2 topics
  38. Disaster Management4▲ 16×2 topics
  39. Fisheries Sustainability4▲ 29×2 topics
  40. Flood Risk4▲ 30×1 topic

Which research topics does Environmental Defense Fund publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Atmospheric and Environm…13Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 13 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 5 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 4 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 4 fractional worksClimate Change Policy and Economics: 4 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 3 fractional worksSustainability and Climate Change Governance: 3 fractional worksMarine and fisheries research: 3 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Management: 2 fractional worksOil, Gas, and Environmental Issues: 2 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisEconomics and Econometrics3 others

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

  1. 1 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 13 works
  2. 2 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 5 works
  3. 3 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 works
  4. 4 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  5. 5 Climate Change Policy and Economics Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  6. 6 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 3 works
  7. 7 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  8. 8 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  9. 9 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
  10. 10 Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2 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 available47.4%not open52.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.0%domestic only77.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Environmental Defense Fund's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Environmental Defense Fund as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00047% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Environmental Defense Fund0.00068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Defense Fund over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Environmental Defense Fund20.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.9% in 2018.

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