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Economic and Environmental Valuation

Economic and Environmental Valuation is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 41k 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 application of discrete choice models, such as mixed logit and conjoint analysis, in economics and health care. It explores topics related to willingness to pay, preference elicitation, experimental design, and environmental valuation. The papers also discuss the use of stated preference methods to understand consumer preferences and decision-making processes.

  • Discrete Choice Models
  • Conjoint Analysis
  • Willingness to Pay
  • Health Economics
  • Preference Elicitation
  • Environmental Valuation
  • Mixed Logit Models
  • Experimental Design
  • Consumer Preferences
  • Stated Preference Methods
Research works
41k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Economic and Environmental Valuation

Which countries lead Economic and Environmental Valuation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 370 works
  4. 4 Germany 305 works
  5. 5 Australia 248 works
  6. 6 Italy 228 works
  7. 7 France 196 works
  8. 8 Spain 196 works
  9. 9 Canada 194 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 180 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: 31.8%China: 24.7%United Kingdom: 8.4%Germany: 6.9%6 others listed: 28.2%32%largest
United States1,399 · 31.8%China1,090 · 24.7%United Kingdom370 · 8.4%Germany305 · 6.9%6 others listed1,241 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Economic and Environmental Valuation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Economic and Environmental Valuation research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Cornell University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 49 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 39 works
  3. 3 Cornell UniversityUnited States 30 works
  4. 4 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 30 works
  5. 5 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 25 works
  7. 7 University of FloridaUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 Leibniz AssociationGermany 24 works
  9. 9 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 21 works
  10. 10 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Economic and Environmental Valuation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Economic and Environmental Valuation include Douglas G. Altman, Christopher J L Murray and Daniel J. Kahneman.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  4. 4 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  5. 5 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  6. 6 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  7. 7 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  8. 8 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  9. 9 Ted R. Miller United States 279k 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 Economic and Environmental Valuation?

The most cited paper in Economic and Environmental Valuation is "Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk" (Daniel J. Kahneman, Amos Tversky, 1988), with 32,957 citations. Next come "The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital" (22,491) and "brms : An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Stan" (9,892).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk Daniel J. Kahneman, Amos Tversky · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 25 Mar 1988 32,957
2 The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot et al. · Nature May 1997 22,491
3 brms : An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Stan Paul‐Christian Bürkner · Journal of Statistical Software Open access 2017 9,892
4 Accounting for common method variance in cross-sectional research designs. Michael K. Lindell, David J. Whitney · Journal of Applied Psychology 2001 8,130
5 Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity Lenore Fahrig · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics Review Nov 2003 7,880
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Economic and Environmental Valuation research done?

The largest centres of Economic and Environmental Valuation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Nanjing (China) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rotterdam and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 226 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 79 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 75 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 71 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 65 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 64 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 62 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 55 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 52 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RotterdamNL · 37.2 works8.9×
  2. WageningenNL · 22.0 works8.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Economic and Environmental Valuation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Economic and Environmental Valuation?

Among universities, judged by research, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Cornell University 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 19.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chongqing UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Erasmus University R…Cornell University
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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
1Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 63.58.6%10.2×30 +5.7%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.122.1%3.1×15 +9.1%
3Cornell UniversityUnited States 59.86.6%4.1×30 +19.9%
4Chongqing UniversityChina 59.833.9%1.6×10 +207.5%
5Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 59.514.9%10.5×22 -12.8%
6China University of GeosciencesChina 58.427.9%4.2×11 +121.4%
7ETH ZurichSwitzerland 57.024.4%4.6×18 -19.7%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.520.2%2.5×20 -19.0%
9Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 51.214.1%20.0×18 -27.8%
10Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 51.024.0%4.1×10 +365.5%

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 Economic and Environmental Valuation, country by country

Is Economic and Environmental Valuation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% 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 Economic and Environmental Valuation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Economic and Environmental Valuation0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Economic and Environmental Valuation 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%Economic and Environmental Valuation10.3% 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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