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Climate Change and Environmental Impact

Climate Change and Environmental Impact is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 2.5k research works in it since 1951. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to climate change, including its physical science basis, impacts on biodiversity and human health, renewable energy solutions, carbon emissions, adaptation strategies, and environmental policy. The papers also discuss the implications of extreme weather events and the use of geo-spatial data in understanding environmental changes.

  • Climate Change
  • Global Warming
  • Sustainability
  • Renewable Energy
  • Carbon Emissions
  • Adaptation Strategies
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Environmental Policy
  • Extreme Weather Events
  • Geo-Spatial Data
Research works
2.5k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
272
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+100%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Climate Change and Environmental Impact

Which countries lead Climate Change and Environmental Impact research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (136 and 72 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 136 works
  2. 2 Germany 72 works
  3. 3 Nigeria 64 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 60 works
  5. 5 China 57 works
  6. 6 India 55 works
  7. 7 France 29 works
  8. 8 Spain 26 works
  9. 9 Italy 23 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 22 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: 25.1%Germany: 13.2%Nigeria: 11.7%United Kingdom: 11.1%6 others listed: 38.9%25%largest
United States136 · 25.1%Germany72 · 13.2%Nigeria64 · 11.7%United Kingdom60 · 11.1%6 others listed211 · 38.9%

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

Which institutions lead Climate Change and Environmental Impact research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Climate Change and Environmental Impact research, followed by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 9 works
  2. 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 9 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 7 works
  4. 4 Leibniz AssociationGermany 6 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 6 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 6 works
  7. 7 University of California San DiegoUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 5 works
  9. 9 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 4 works
  10. 10 Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche VersuchsanstaltGermany 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Climate Change and Environmental Impact?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Climate Change and Environmental Impact include Philippe Ciais, Carlos Manuel Duarte and Johan Rockström.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  3. 3 Johan Rockström Sweden 128k citations
  4. 4 Pierre Friedlingstein United Kingdom 127k citations
  5. 5 Philip Douglas Jones United Kingdom 126k citations
  6. 6 Detlef Peter van Vuuren Netherlands 126k citations
  7. 7 Pete Smith United Kingdom 121k 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 Climate Change and Environmental Impact?

The most cited paper in Climate Change and Environmental Impact is "Climate change 2001: The scientific basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (David Griggs, M. Noguer, 2002), with 5,819 citations. Next come "Climate Change, 2007" (1,978) and "The Earth’s Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity" (1,710).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Climate change 2001: The scientific basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change David Griggs, M. Noguer · Weather Aug 2002 5,819
2 Climate Change, 2007 Milton H. Saier · Water Air & Soil Pollution Open access 14 Mar 2007 1,978
3 The Earth’s Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapterOpen access 28 Jun 2023 1,710
4 Climate change 1995: The Science of Climate Change David Unwin · Applied Geography Apr 1997 1,694
5 Impact of climate change on agriculture production and its sustainable solutions Naveen Kumar Arora · Environmental Sustainability Open access Jun 2019 891
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Where is Climate Change and Environmental Impact research done?

The largest centres of Climate Change and Environmental Impact research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Washington D.C. (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 20 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 16 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 11 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 9 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 9 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 7 works
  7. 7 ViennaAustria 7 works
  8. 8 CopenhagenDenmark 6 works
  9. 9 HamburgGermany 6 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 6 works
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Is Climate Change and Environmental Impact research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 100% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Climate Change and Environmental Impact.

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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 Climate Change and Environmental Impact as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Climate Change and Environmental Impact 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.

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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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