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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. 28.5% 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%
8.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
28.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+37%
the tick is no change

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

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 740 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 740 works
  3. 3 India 560 works
  4. 4 Brazil 549 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 397 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 314 works
  7. 7 Germany 248 works
  8. 8 Ethiopia 207 works
  9. 9 Australia 187 works
  10. 10 France 186 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: 26.1%United States: 16.2%India: 12.2%Brazil: 12.0%6 others listed: 33.6%26%largest
China1,194 · 26.1%United States740 · 16.2%India560 · 12.2%Brazil549 · 12.0%6 others listed1,540 · 33.6%

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

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

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research, followed by Wageningen University & Research and Beijing Forestry University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60 works
  2. 2 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 40 works
  3. 3 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 40 works
  4. 4 IPB UniversityIndonesia 38 works
  5. 5 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 32 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 32 works
  7. 7 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 30 works
  8. 8 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChina 30 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 28 works
  10. 10 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 27 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management include Stephen Polasky, W. Neil Adger and Carl Folke.

  1. 1 Stephen Polasky United States 3.8k citations
  2. 2 W. Neil Adger United Kingdom 3.7k citations
  3. 3 Carl Folke Sweden 3.2k citations
  4. 4 Robert Costanza Australia 3.2k citations
  5. 5 Pete Smith United Kingdom 3k citations
  6. 6 Navin Ramankutty Canada 2.9k citations
  7. 7 Rattan Lal United States 2.8k citations

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

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

The largest centres of Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), São Paulo (Brazil) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Morogoro.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 418 works
  2. 2 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 75 works
  3. 3 São Paulo Brazil 74 works
  4. 4 Paris France 68 works
  5. 5 London United Kingdom 62 works
  6. 6 Bogor Indonesia 61 works
  7. 7 Nanjing China 60 works
  8. 8 Wuhan China 59 works
  9. 9 Nairobi Kenya 59 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C. United States 56 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MorogoroTZ · 22.1 works29×
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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, Addis Ababa University and Wageningen University & Research 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%60%mean 34.58%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Beijing Normal University: 32, 48.1%Addis Ababa University: 30, 31.4%Wageningen University & Research: 40, 37.0%Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: 12, 33.6%Beijing Forestry University: 40, 33.7%Jimma University: 10, 40.2%Hawassa University: 18, 26.5%Bahir Dar University: 17, 41.3%University of Göttingen: 18, 36.8%IPB University: 38, 17.2%Beijing Normal Unive…Wageningen Universit…Czech University of …Addis Ababa University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 74.448.1%6.5×32 +222.5%
2 Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 71.631.4%18.1×30 +160.7%
3 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 70.237.0%15.8×40 +5.9%
4 Czech University of Life Sciences PragueCzechia 68.633.6%16.5×12 +429.9%
5 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 67.933.7%19.8×40 +72.0%
6 Jimma UniversityEthiopia 67.840.2%11.5×10 +570.5%
7 Hawassa UniversityEthiopia 65.826.5%27.2×18 +559.7%
8 Bahir Dar UniversityEthiopia 64.641.3%16.8×17 —
9 University of GöttingenGermany 62.536.8%9.6×18 +52.6%
10 IPB UniversityIndonesia 60.417.2%9.6×38 +135.2%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 37% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.