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Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies is a research topic within Nature and Landscape Conservation. Science Explorer counts 76k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the conservation and management of biodiversity and ecosystems, addressing topics such as the impact of habitat fragmentation, invasive species, functional diversity, and global change on species richness and community ecology. It also explores the implications for ecosystem services and the challenges in developing ecological indicators for biodiversity conservation.

  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Ecosystem
  • Invasive Species
  • Functional Diversity
  • Habitat Fragmentation
  • Community Ecology
  • Global Change
  • Species Richness
  • Biological Invasions
Research works
76k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Which countries lead Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.5k and 2.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 United States 2.3k works
  3. 3 Brazil 811 works
  4. 4 Germany 574 works
  5. 5 India 511 works
  6. 6 Australia 484 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 453 works
  8. 8 France 448 works
  9. 9 Spain 418 works
  10. 10 Canada 403 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: 28.0%United States: 25.9%Brazil: 9.1%Germany: 6.5%6 others listed: 30.6%28%largest
China2,481 · 28.0%United States2,296 · 25.9%Brazil811 · 9.1%Germany574 · 6.5%6 others listed2,715 · 30.6%

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

Which institutions lead Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 453 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 154 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 138 works
  4. 4 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 114 works
  5. 5 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 106 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 91 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 89 works
  8. 8 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 72 works
  9. 9 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 68 works
  10. 10 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 65 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies include Rob Knight, Jun Wang and Trevor Hastie.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  4. 4 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  5. 5 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  6. 6 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  7. 7 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  8. 8 M. Costa France 207k citations
  9. 9 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  10. 10 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k 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 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies?

The most cited paper in Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies is "Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities" (Norman Myers, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier et al., 2000), with 31,783 citations. Next come "Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions" (18,119) and "A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance" (13,523).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities Norman Myers, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier et al. · Nature Feb 2000 31,783
2 Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson, Robert E. Schapire · Ecological Modelling 18 Jul 2005 18,119
3 A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance Marti Jane Anderson · Austral Ecology Feb 2001 13,523
4 Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance Carsten F. Dormann, Jane Elith, Sven Bacher et al. · Ecography Open access 18 May 2012 11,040
5 A general and simple method for obtaining R 2 from generalized linear mixed‐effects models Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth · Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3 Dec 2012 10,527
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies research done?

The largest centres of Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Washington D.C. (United States) and Lanzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Průhonice, Mengla and Birmensdorf.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 766 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 170 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 120 works
  4. 4 LanzhouChina 118 works
  5. 5 Buenos AiresArgentina 97 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 96 works
  7. 7 São PauloBrazil 95 works
  8. 8 Mexico CityMexico 89 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 88 works
  10. 10 KunmingChina 88 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PrůhoniceCZ · 25.9 works104×
  2. MenglaCN · 24.3 works82×
  3. BirmensdorfCH · 35.1 works81×
  4. TongrenCN · 21.7 works50×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou University and Peking University 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 19.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Peking UniversityLanzhou UniversityFriedrich Schiller U…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.

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 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 72.218.4%4.9×91 +20.5%
2Lanzhou UniversityChina 67.619.4%8.0×63 +89.8%
3Peking UniversityChina 66.323.9%1.4×33 +43.7%
4Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 61.619.1%11.0×40 -17.1%
5Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 61.214.6%8.8×36 -6.9%
6University of GöttingenGermany 61.018.3%10.7×44 -23.7%
7Zhejiang A & F UniversityChina 60.723.2%9.8×17 +113.8%
8Leipzig UniversityGermany 60.525.9%2.9×12 +21.3%
9Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 57.89.2%21.0×68 +19.9%
10Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 56.518.1%5.5×18 +13.3%

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 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, country by country

Is Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.051% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies0.048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 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%Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies9.8% 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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