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Environmental Earth Sciences

In research, Environmental Earth Sciences stands highest in Environmental Science (#757 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,064 of 10,670 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,923 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Geophysics (Ecology is 13.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,544
of 22,385 · #3,496 all time
Rank in Australia
#76
of 270
Research works
2.4k
▼ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
71k
29.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.12×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
48%
world 18%
Environmental Earth Sciences

What is Environmental Earth Sciences 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
Environmental ScienceField #757 of 3,334 13.3%130 #866
Physical SciencesDomain #3,064 of 10,670 13.7%271 #2989
Life SciencesDomain #1,923 of 6,403 13.0%70 #1979
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #588 of 1,088 11.9%80 #686

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Environmental Earth Sciences 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Environmental Science#866 #757
  2. Physical Sciences#2,989 #3,064
  3. Life Sciences#1,979 #1,923
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences#686 #588
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Environmental Earth Sciences work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research at Environmental Earth Sciences is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (32%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 318 fractional works · 67.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 150 fractional works · 32.0% of its workEcology: 49 fractional works · 10.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 31 fractional works · 6.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 17 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 96 fractional works · 20.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 24 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeophysics: 21 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPaleontology: 15 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOceanography: 15 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEngineering: 35 fractional works · 7.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 80 fractional works · 17.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 51 fractional works · 10.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 24 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPlant Science: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInsect Science: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 25 fractional works · 5.3% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 52 fractional works · 11.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 28 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workTransportation: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 19 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKEnvironmentalEarth Sciences470fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences68%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences11%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science15032.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences9620.5%
    3. Engineering357.5%
    4. Computer Science102.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy81.6%
    6. Materials Science61.3%
    7. Energy51.1%
    8. Chemistry51.1%
    9. Mathematics10.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5110.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology255.3%
    3. Neuroscience20.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences285.9%
    2. Psychology81.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities51.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance51.0%
    5. Decision Sciences30.7%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting30.6%
    1. Medicine132.8%
    2. Health Professions40.8%
    3. Veterinary10.3%
    4. Nursing10.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Environmental Earth Sciences specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology takes 13.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EcologySubfield · 49.2 works13×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 96.5 works13×
  3. GeophysicsSubfield · 21.3 works13×
← 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: 2.27× its world share, 51 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 25 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.71× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.29× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13.10× its world share, 96 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.21× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.50× its world share, 35 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.44× its world share, 150 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.74× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.89× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.40× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.74× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.57× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.47× its world share, 28 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 13.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.10×96 works
  2. Environmental Science6.44×150 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.27×51 works
  4. Veterinary1.89×1 works
  5. Energy1.21×5 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.00×25 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.74×8 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.74×3 works
  9. Chemistry0.71×5 works
  10. Psychology0.57×8 works
  11. Engineering0.50×35 works
  12. Chemical Engineering0.47×1 works
  13. Social Sciences0.47×28 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.45×4 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.43×1 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.40×5 works
  17. Materials Science0.36×6 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.35×2 works
  19. Neuroscience0.32×2 works
  20. Health Professions0.30×4 works
  21. Computer Science0.29×10 works
  22. Nursing0.29×1 works
  23. Mathematics0.24×1 works
  24. Business, Management and Accounting0.18×3 works
  25. Medicine0.14×13 works
  26. Dentistry0.09×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Environmental Earth Sciences?

Ranked on the quality score, Stephen Patrick Bonser, John Triantafilis and David A. Pepper lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Environmental Earth Sciences.

  1. 1 Stephen Patrick Bonser Australia · #585,399 worldwide 7.7k citations · 119 works
  2. 2 John Triantafilis Australia · #1,573,459 worldwide 5.4k citations · 187 works
  3. 3 David A. Pepper Australia · #1,858,243 worldwide 2.2k citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Maryem Arshad Australia · #2,140,706 worldwide 610 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Jie Wang Australia · #2,260,982 worldwide 1.5k citations · 85 works
  6. 6 David Schultz Australia · #3,734,214 worldwide 1 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Jennifer L. Claydon Australia · #4,328,904 worldwide 25 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Xueyu Zhao Australia · #4,554,676 worldwide 473 citations · 33 works
  9. 9 Takayuki Omori Australia · #5,019,202 worldwide 2 citations · 23 works
  10. 10 Ehsan Zare Australia · #5,022,341 worldwide 543 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at Environmental Earth Sciences

What are the most cited papers from Environmental Earth Sciences?

The most cited paper from Environmental Earth Sciences is "The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)" (Paula J. Reimer et al., 2020), with 7,945 citations. Next come "Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores" (3,722) and "The global spectrum of plant form and function" (3,468).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP) Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon Open access Aug 2020 7,945
2 Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores William J. Ripple, James A. Estes, Robert L. Beschta et al. · Science 9 Jan 2014 3,722
3 The global spectrum of plant form and function Sandra Díaz et al. · Nature Open access 23 Dec 2015 3,468
4 Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome R. Appels et al. · Science Open access201 authors 17 Aug 2018 3,439
5 TRY – a global database of plant traits Jens Kattge et al. · Global Change Biology Open access135 authors 26 Apr 2011 2,699
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Environmental Earth Sciences?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Conservation, Population Dynamics, Habitat Fragmentation, Remote Sensing and Global Change.

▲ 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 Change108▲ 8.4×79 topics
  2. Biodiversity38▲ 11×24 topics
  3. Invasive Species35▲ 18×21 topics
  4. Remote Sensing28▲ 4.9×27 topics
  5. Conservation27▲ 13×22 topics
  6. Population Dynamics25▲ 20×12 topics
  7. Habitat Fragmentation23▲ 23×5 topics
  8. Environmental Impact21▲ 2.6×40 topics
  9. Global Change21▲ 17×6 topics
  10. Ecosystem Services18▲ 10×10 topics
  11. Conservation Biology16▲ 32×4 topics
  12. Plate Tectonics15▲ 21×3 topics
  13. Tectonics15▲ 26×3 topics
  14. Holocene14▲ 27×3 topics
  15. Global Warming14▲ 7.0×13 topics
  16. Paleoclimatology14▲ 35×2 topics
  17. Sea Level14▲ 31×2 topics
  18. Biogeography13▲ 10.0×15 topics
  19. Ecosystem13▲ 26×4 topics
  20. Glacial Cycles12▲ 40×1 topic
  21. Monsoon Dynamics12▲ 40×1 topic
  22. Solar Influence12▲ 37×2 topics
  23. Biological Invasions12▲ 27×3 topics
  24. Trophic Cascades12▲ 27×2 topics
  25. Habitat Selection11▲ 33×2 topics
  26. Model Evaluation11▲ 18×2 topics
  27. Molecular Phylogeny11▲ 14×9 topics
  28. Geochronology11▲ 33×1 topic
  29. Zircon11▲ 33×1 topic
  30. Species Richness10▲ 35×2 topics
  31. Land Use Change10▲ 7.2×6 topics
  32. Phylogenetic Analysis10▲ 6.8×12 topics
  33. Adaptive Evolution10▲ 37×2 topics
  34. Ecosystem Functioning10▲ 10×7 topics
  35. Community Ecology10▲ 25×2 topics
  36. Citizen Science10▲ 20×3 topics
  37. Ocean Acidification10▲ 27×3 topics
  38. Ecosystem Resilience9▲ 13×5 topics
  39. Natural Selection9▲ 35×3 topics
  40. Functional Diversity9▲ 35×1 topic

Which research topics does Environmental Earth Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Geology and Paleoclimato…12Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 12 fractional worksGeological and Geochemic…11Geological and Geochemical Analysis: 11 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 9 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…8Species Distribution and Climate Change: 8 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…8Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 8 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Reproduction: 7 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 7 fractional worksPlant and animal studies7Plant and animal studies: 7 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 6 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 6 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceGeophysicsNature and Landscape ConservationEcological Modeling4 others

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

  1. 1 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 12 works
  2. 2 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 11 works
  3. 3 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 9 works
  4. 4 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 8 works
  5. 5 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 8 works
  6. 6 Animal Behavior and Reproduction Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 7 works
  7. 7 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 7 works
  8. 8 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 7 works
  9. 9 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 6 works
  10. 10 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 6 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-authors47.9%domestic only52.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Environmental Earth Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower 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 Earth Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0017% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Environmental Earth Sciences0.0016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Earth Sciences 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%Environmental Earth Sciences14.0% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.3% in 2022.

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