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Environmental Conservation and Management

Environmental Conservation and Management is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 9.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and policy implications of biodiversity offsets, including topics such as no net loss, ecological compensation, mitigation hierarchy, habitat banking, and corporate biodiversity accountability. It discusses the effectiveness, implementation gap, and ethical considerations of biodiversity offsetting in various environmental contexts.

  • Biodiversity Offsets
  • No Net Loss
  • Ecological Compensation
  • Mitigation Hierarchy
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Habitat Banking
  • Conservation Banking
  • Ecosystem Services Markets
  • Wetland Mitigation
  • Corporate Biodiversity Accountability
Research works
9.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental Conservation and Management

Which countries lead Environmental Conservation and Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (282 and 227 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 282 works
  2. 2 United States 227 works
  3. 3 France 154 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 148 works
  5. 5 Germany 141 works
  6. 6 Australia 99 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 79 works
  8. 8 Italy 74 works
  9. 9 India 71 works
  10. 10 Canada 55 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: 21.2%United States: 17.0%France: 11.6%United Kingdom: 11.2%6 others listed: 39.0%21%largest
China282 · 21.2%United States227 · 17.0%France154 · 11.6%United Kingdom148 · 11.2%6 others listed518 · 39.0%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Conservation and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Environmental Conservation and Management research, followed by Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 36 works
  2. 2 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 24 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  4. 4 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 16 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 13 works
  6. 6 The University of QueenslandAustralia 11 works
  7. 7 University of HelsinkiFinland 11 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 10 works
  9. 9 Leibniz AssociationGermany 10 works
  10. 10 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Conservation and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Conservation and Management include David Tilman, David Alan Bennett and F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  2. 2 David Alan Bennett United States 190k citations
  3. 3 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  5. 5 Stephen R. Carpenter United States 165k citations
  6. 6 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  7. 7 Элинор Остром United States 149k citations
  8. 8 Jim van Os Netherlands 146k citations
  9. 9 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 126k citations
  10. 10 Rattan Lal United States 126k 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 Conservation and Management?

The most cited paper in Environmental Conservation and Management is "Systematic conservation planning." (Chris R. Margules, Robert L. Pressey, 2000), with 3,871 citations. Next come "A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models" (3,028) and "The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people" (2,619).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Systematic conservation planning. Chris R. Margules, Robert L. Pressey · PubMed 11 May 2000 3,871
2 A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models Volker Grimm et al. · Ecological Modelling 15 Jun 2006 3,028
3 The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people Sandra M. Díaz et al. · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ReviewOpen access 19 Dec 2014 2,619
4 Convention on Biological Diversity Angela Cropper · Environmental Conservation Open access 1993 2,481
5 Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities Thomas M. Brooks, R. A. Mittermeier, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca et al. · Science 6 Jul 2006 2,397
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Environmental Conservation and Management research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Conservation and Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), London (United Kingdom) and Helsinki (Finland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Helsinki and Brisbane.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 76 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 44 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
  4. 4 HelsinkiFinland 22 works
  5. 5 BrisbaneAustralia 20 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 19 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 18 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 17 works
  9. 9 WageningenNetherlands 16 works
  10. 10 OxfordUnited Kingdom 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HelsinkiFI · 22.5 works11×
  2. BrisbaneAU · 20.5 works5.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Environmental Conservation and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, The University of Queensland and University of Oxford 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 11.1375%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordThe University of Qu…Wageningen Universit…University of Helsinki
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 81.013.3%25.8×16 -3.7%
2The University of QueenslandAustralia 72.819.7%7.0×11 +11.6%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 72.721.4%5.4×13 +104.4%
4University of HelsinkiFinland 58.28.6%9.0×11 +55.9%
5University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 47.79.3%8.4×9 +629.5%
6Ghent UniversityBelgium 31.112.6%6.3×8 -3.2%
7Université de LyonFrance 26.14.2%8.1×9 +290.0%
8Heidelberg University of EducationGermany 21.60.0%338.8×8 +131.8%

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 Conservation and Management, country by country

Is Environmental Conservation and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental Conservation and 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Environmental Conservation and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Environmental Conservation and Management0.0096% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Conservation and Management 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 Conservation and Management10.8% 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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