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Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the drivers, impacts, and governance of tropical deforestation, including topics such as payments for ecosystem services, community-based conservation, protected areas, and the relationship between deforestation and climate change. It also delves into the challenges and potential solutions related to biodiversity conservation in the context of land use change and global forest transition.

  • Tropical Deforestation
  • Environmental Services
  • Protected Areas
  • Community-Based Conservation
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Payments for Ecosystem Services
  • Climate Change
  • Forest Governance
  • Land Use Change
  • Global Forest Transition
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Which countries lead Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 847 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 847 works
  3. 3 India 688 works
  4. 4 Brazil 594 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 466 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 364 works
  7. 7 Germany 281 works
  8. 8 Ethiopia 229 works
  9. 9 Australia 217 works
  10. 10 France 206 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.

China: 25.4%United States: 16.2%India: 13.2%Brazil: 11.4%6 others listed: 33.8%25%largest
China1,327 · 25.4%United States847 · 16.2%India688 · 13.2%Brazil594 · 11.4%6 others listed1,762 · 33.8%

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

Which institutions lead Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Wageningen University & Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 163 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 66 works
  3. 3 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 47 works
  4. 4 IPB UniversityIndonesia 43 works
  5. 5 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 43 works
  6. 6 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 37 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 35 works
  8. 8 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 34 works
  9. 9 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 31 works
  10. 10 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management include Jun Wang, Mark A. Bradford and Philippe Ciais.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  4. 4 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  5. 5 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  6. 6 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  7. 7 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  8. 8 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  9. 9 Stephen R. Carpenter United States 165k citations
  10. 10 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k 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 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management?

The most cited paper in Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management is "Global Consequences of Land Use" (Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner et al., 2005), with 13,282 citations. Next come "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change" (11,936) and "Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity" (7,502).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global Consequences of Land Use Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner et al. · Science Open access 22 Jul 2005 13,282
2 High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al. · Science 14 Nov 2013 11,936
3 Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez et al. · Nature Open access Jun 2012 7,502
4 Changes in the global value of ecosystem services Robert Costanza, R.S. de Groot, Paul C. Sutton et al. · Global Environmental Change Open access May 2014 6,332
5 Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. · Science Open access 29 Apr 2010 4,942
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research done?

The largest centres of Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Morogoro and Awasa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 453 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 80 works
  3. 3 Addis AbabaEthiopia 80 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 77 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 72 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 67 works
  7. 7 BogorIndonesia 67 works
  8. 8 NairobiKenya 66 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 66 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MorogoroTZ · 27.5 works31×
  2. AwasaET · 20.1 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Geosciences score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 23.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lanzhou UniversityBeijing Normal Unive…China University of …University of Chines…
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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.

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
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 85.132.3%6.5×37 +64.6%
2University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 71.525.7%3.0×35 +35.2%
3China University of GeosciencesChina 70.932.3%5.4×18 +177.3%
4Lanzhou UniversityChina 68.534.7%3.1×15 +158.4%
5Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 66.117.3%21.1×43 +64.7%
6Peking UniversityChina 64.126.9%1.4×20 +73.4%
7Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 63.610.0%18.3×47 -14.6%
8Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 58.27.4%18.9×31 +30.8%
9Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 57.221.6%5.8×18 +214.9%
10Northwest Normal UniversityChina 56.728.1%5.9×10 +325.4%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, country by country

Is Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

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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 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management0.034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 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%Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management10.2% 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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