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Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies

Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies is a research topic within Nature and Landscape Conservation. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management, conservation, and sustainable development of UNESCO biosphere reserves. It explores topics such as participatory governance, social construction of landscapes, environmental conflict resolution, and the role of virtual reality in landscape research. The cluster also delves into the challenges and opportunities related to renewable energy transition (Energiewende) and emphasizes the importance of landscape management for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.

  • Biosphere Reserves
  • Landscape Management
  • Conservation
  • Sustainable Development
  • Participatory Governance
  • Social Construction
  • Energiewende
  • Environmental Conflict Resolution
  • Virtual Reality
  • Geographical Discourse Analysis
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
67% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies

Which countries lead Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (1.8k and 201 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 1.8k works
  2. 2 Austria 201 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 170 works
  4. 4 United States 155 works
  5. 5 Russia 82 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 60 works
  7. 7 China 59 works
  8. 8 France 54 works
  9. 9 Italy 49 works
  10. 10 Poland 44 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.

Germany: 66.7%Austria: 7.7%Switzerland: 6.5%United States: 5.9%6 others listed: 13.2%67%largest
Germany1,752 · 66.7%Austria201 · 7.7%Switzerland170 · 6.5%United States155 · 5.9%6 others listed348 · 13.2%

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

Which institutions lead Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Tübingen publishes the most Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies research, followed by TU Wien and Leibniz Association.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TübingenGermany 113 works
  2. 2 TU WienAustria 64 works
  3. 3 Leibniz AssociationGermany 50 works
  4. 4 University of WuppertalGermany 49 works
  5. 5 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 38 works
  6. 6 University of KasselGermany 32 works
  7. 7 Ruhr University BochumGermany 32 works
  8. 8 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 27 works
  9. 9 University of FreiburgGermany 25 works
  10. 10 Leibniz University HannoverGermany 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Carl Folke and Willem M. de Vos.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  3. 3 Willem M. de Vos Netherlands 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 Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies?

The most cited paper in Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies is "Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and budgets" (Benjamin Burkhard, Franziska Kroll, Stoyan Nedkov et al., 2011), with 2,161 citations. Next come "Understanding the drivers of sustainable land expansion using a patch-generating land use simulation (PLUS) model: A case study in Wuhan, China" (1,607) and "Why landscapes of the past are important for the future" (1,513).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and budgets Benjamin Burkhard, Franziska Kroll, Stoyan Nedkov et al. · Ecological Indicators 16 Sep 2011 2,161
2 Understanding the drivers of sustainable land expansion using a patch-generating land use simulation (PLUS) model: A case study in Wuhan, China Xun Liang, Qingfeng Guan, Keith Clarke et al. · Computers Environment and Urban Systems 27 Nov 2020 1,607
3 Why landscapes of the past are important for the future Marc Antrop · Landscape and Urban Planning 24 Dec 2003 1,513
4 Landscapes' capacities to provide ecosystem services - A concept for land-cover based assessments Benjamin Burkhard, Franziska Kroll, Felix Müller et al. · Landscape Online Open access Dec 2009 862
5 The European Landscape Convention Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons · Landscape Research Oct 2006 820
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies research in 2022-now are Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany), Tübingen (Germany) and Munich (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wuppertal.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ViennaAustria 135 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 127 works
  3. 3 TübingenGermany 121 works
  4. 4 MunichGermany 69 works
  5. 5 HamburgGermany 57 works
  6. 6 WuppertalGermany 51 works
  7. 7 ZurichSwitzerland 46 works
  8. 8 Frankfurt am MainGermany 46 works
  9. 9 AachenGermany 46 works
  10. 10 CologneGermany 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WuppertalDE · 51.5 works110×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Tübingen, University of Freiburg and Ruhr University Bochum 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%10%20%30%mean 15.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TübingenUniversity of FreiburgUniversity of KasselRuhr University Bochum
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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
1University of TübingenGermany 96.126.8%103.2×112 +34.4%
2University of FreiburgGermany 62.017.8%21.2×25 +162.2%
3Ruhr University BochumGermany 59.512.3%30.6×32 +20.5%
4University of KasselGermany 55.213.8%78.9×32 +42.5%
5TU WienAustria 54.33.3%81.2×64 +181.3%
6University of BaselSwitzerland 53.319.4%10.0×10 +242.4%
7Saarland UniversityGermany 52.522.5%24.0×15 -28.0%
8Carl von Ossietzky Universität OldenburgGermany 52.010.9%39.7×15 +61.8%
9HafenCity University HamburgGermany 51.517.4%287.6×12 +109.1%
10Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 50.97.9%22.6×21 +35.3%

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 Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies, country by country

Is Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies.

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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, Conservation, and Geographical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical 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, Conservation, and Geographical Studies9.9% 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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