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American Environmental and Regional History

American Environmental and Regional History is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers the environmental history of the United States, including topics such as the environmental movement, conservation efforts, renewable energy challenges, industrial agriculture, wilderness preservation, chemical pollution, national parks, sustainability initiatives, historical perspectives on environmental issues, and public policy related to environmental management.

  • Environmental Movement
  • Conservation
  • Renewable Energy
  • Industrial Agriculture
  • Wilderness Preservation
  • Chemical Pollution
  • National Parks
  • Sustainability
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Public Policy
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
72% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
American Environmental and Regional History

Which countries lead American Environmental and Regional History research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.2k and 142 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 142 works
  3. 3 Canada 91 works
  4. 4 Australia 52 works
  5. 5 France 45 works
  6. 6 Germany 38 works
  7. 7 China 32 works
  8. 8 Italy 26 works
  9. 9 India 22 works
  10. 10 Russia 19 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 72.2%United Kingdom: 8.5%Canada: 5.4%Australia: 3.1%6 others listed: 10.9%72%largest
United States1,208 · 72.2%United Kingdom142 · 8.5%Canada91 · 5.4%Australia52 · 3.1%6 others listed182 · 10.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead American Environmental and Regional History research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most American Environmental and Regional History research, followed by University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 20 works
  2. 2 University of ChicagoUnited States 16 works
  3. 3 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 15 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  5. 5 City University of New YorkUnited States 14 works
  6. 6 University of FloridaUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 Michigan State UniversityUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 11 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 11 works
  10. 10 University of MontanaUnited States 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in American Environmental and Regional History?

The most-cited researchers publishing on American Environmental and Regional History include George Davey Smith, Paul M. Thompson and Edward Hartley Sargent.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  3. 3 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  4. 4 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  5. 5 Stephen R. Carpenter United States 165k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in American Environmental and Regional History?

The most cited paper in American Environmental and Regional History is "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis" (Lynn White, 1967), with 4,269 citations. Next come "States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and the Social Order" (2,961) and "Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States" (2,710).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis Lynn White · Science 10 Mar 1967 4,269
2 States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and the Social Order Sheila Jasanoff 26 Mar 2004 2,961
3 Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States James M. Omernik · Annals of the Association of American Geographers Mar 1987 2,710
4 Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Margaret W. Rossiter, Donna Haraway · Journal of American History Sep 1990 2,253
5 Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. By Neil Smith (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. xv, 198 p. $34.95, cloth; $11.95, paper). JOHN R. LOGAN · American Political Science Review Jun 1987 1,668
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Where is American Environmental and Regional History research done?

The largest centres of American Environmental and Regional History research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Los Angeles (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 45 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 42 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 30 works
  4. 4 Los AngelesUnited States 30 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 27 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 17 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 16 works
  8. 8 BerkeleyUnited States 15 works
  9. 9 GainesvilleUnited States 13 works
  10. 10 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 12 works
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Where is the best place to study American Environmental and Regional History?

Among universities, judged by research, University of California, Berkeley, City University of New York and University of Michigan score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 69.410.3%9.6×15 +14.1%
2City University of New YorkUnited States 68.712.1%15.8×14 +42.0%
3University of MichiganUnited States 67.427.9%4.3×10 +67.3%
4University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 64.514.1%5.6×11 +118.3%
5University of ChicagoUnited States 61.12.2%11.5×16 +665.2%
6Michigan State UniversityUnited States 54.06.4%9.3×11 +102.4%
7The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 52.817.2%6.4×9 +38.8%
8University of British ColumbiaCanada 48.218.1%4.2×8 -4.2%
9University of MontanaUnited States 39.810.2%65.7×10 -9.3%
10University of FloridaUnited States 38.54.6%7.0×12 +1.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in American Environmental and Regional History, country by country

Is American Environmental and Regional History research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010. The fastest-growing topics are American Environmental and Regional History.

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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 American Environmental and Regional History as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%American Environmental and Regional History0.0081% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of American Environmental and Regional History 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.

still counting5%10%15%American Environmental and Regional History10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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