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Environmental and Ecological Studies

Environmental and Ecological Studies is a research topic within Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to energy, climate change, and environmental impact assessment. It includes discussions on renewable energy sources, energy policy analysis, the use of geographic information systems in urban planning, and the assessment of biomass energy. The cluster also addresses the impact of climate change on various regions and the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies.

  • Renewable Energy
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Sustainable Development
  • Ecosystem Approach
  • Energy Policy Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Urban Planning
  • Biomass Energy
  • SMEs in Developing Economies
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1951
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
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Colombia
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental and Ecological Studies

Which countries lead Environmental and Ecological Studies research?

By volume, Colombia and Ecuador publish the most (477 and 335 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Colombia 477 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 335 works
  3. 3 Mexico 322 works
  4. 4 Spain 256 works
  5. 5 Peru 242 works
  6. 6 Argentina 233 works
  7. 7 Brazil 118 works
  8. 8 United States 92 works
  9. 9 Chile 86 works
  10. 10 Panama 58 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.

Colombia: 21.5%Ecuador: 15.1%Mexico: 14.5%Spain: 11.5%6 others listed: 37.3%21%largest
Colombia477 · 21.5%Ecuador335 · 15.1%Mexico322 · 14.5%Spain256 · 11.5%6 others listed829 · 37.3%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental and Ecological Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Nacional de Colombia publishes the most Environmental and Ecological Studies research, followed by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 53 works
  2. 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 45 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 31 works
  4. 4 Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoMexico 31 works
  5. 5 National University of San MarcosPeru 29 works
  6. 6 Universidad de PanamáPanama 27 works
  7. 7 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 24 works
  8. 8 University of LisbonPortugal 23 works
  9. 9 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 21 works
  10. 10 Universidad César VallejoPeru 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental and Ecological Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental and Ecological Studies include Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán and Josep Peñuelas.

  1. 1 Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán Colombia 216k citations
  2. 2 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 Environmental and Ecological Studies?

The most cited paper in Environmental and Ecological Studies is "Modificaciones al Sistema de Clasificación Climática de Köppen" (Enriqueta García, 2004), with 1,105 citations. Next come "Use of water quality indices to verify the impact of Córdoba City (Argentina) on Suquía River" (825) and "Wind farms suitability location using geographical information system (GIS), based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods: The case of continental Ecuador" (348).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Modificaciones al Sistema de Clasificación Climática de Köppen Enriqueta García · Instituto de Geografía 2004 1,105
2 Use of water quality indices to verify the impact of Córdoba City (Argentina) on Suquía River Silvia Fabiana Pesce · Water Research Aug 2000 825
3 Wind farms suitability location using geographical information system (GIS), based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods: The case of continental Ecuador Geovanna Villacreses, Gabriel Gaona, Javier Martínez-Gómez et al. · Renewable Energy Open access 23 Mar 2017 348
4 Spatio-temporal and cumulative effects of land use-land cover and climate change on two ecosystem services in the Colombian Andes Nicola Clerici, Fabian Cote-Navarro, Francisco Javier Escobedo et al. · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 18 Jun 2019 222
5 Upper quaternary vegetational and climatic sequence of the fuquene area (Eastern Cordillera, Colombia) Bas Van Geel, T. van der Hammen · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Aug 1973 215
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Where is Environmental and Ecological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Environmental and Ecological Studies research in 2022-now are Bogotá (Colombia), Mexico City (Mexico), Lima (Peru) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Latacunga.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BogotáColombia 207 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 98 works
  3. 3 LimaPeru 98 works
  4. 4 Buenos AiresArgentina 75 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 70 works
  6. 6 Panama CityPanama 57 works
  7. 7 CuencaEcuador 42 works
  8. 8 MedellínColombia 40 works
  9. 9 SantiagoChile 40 works
  10. 10 TrujilloPeru 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LatacungaEC · 20.2 works135×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Environmental and Ecological Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad del Valle and Universidad Técnica de Manabí 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%mean 16.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Nacional…Universidad del ValleUniversidad Técnica …Universidad Nacional…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 78.117.9%68.1×53 -6.1%
2Universidad del ValleColombia 67.615.9%48.2×14 +29.0%
3Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 67.514.4%76.2×24 -13.3%
4Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 62.511.6%14.0×31 +25.8%
5Universidad Estatal del Sur de ManabiEcuador 61.919.2%89.4×16 +110.4%
6University of La GuajiraColombia 60.215.3%358.6×12 +59.0%
7University of LisbonPortugal 59.99.5%13.2×23 +418.8%
8Universidad Nacional del AltiplanoPeru 59.317.3%111.9×16 +121.9%
9Politecnica Salesiana UniversityEcuador 58.519.5%67.9×11 -15.9%
10Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 58.519.6%6.2×11 +61.6%

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 Environmental and Ecological Studies, country by country

Is Environmental and Ecological Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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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 Environmental and Ecological Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Environmental and Ecological Studies0.0100% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental and Ecological 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%Environmental and Ecological Studies9.6% 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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