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Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies

Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 3.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the interconnected topics of societal collapse, sustainable development, permaculture, climate change, environmental policy, agroecology, resource management, biodiversity conservation, global warming, and resilience. The papers discuss historical collapses of civilizations, strategies for sustainable agriculture and resource use, the impact of climate change on societies, and the importance of biodiversity conservation for long-term sustainability.

  • Collapse
  • Sustainability
  • Permaculture
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Policy
  • Agroecology
  • Resource Management
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Global Warming
  • Resilience
Research works
3.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
322
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+56%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (184 and 73 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 184 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 73 works
  3. 3 India 53 works
  4. 4 Australia 43 works
  5. 5 Canada 33 works
  6. 6 France 32 works
  7. 7 China 32 works
  8. 8 Italy 26 works
  9. 9 Germany 26 works
  10. 10 Spain 15 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: 35.6%United Kingdom: 14.0%India: 10.2%Australia: 8.4%6 others listed: 31.8%36%largest
United States184 · 35.6%United Kingdom73 · 14.0%India53 · 10.2%Australia43 · 8.4%6 others listed164 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies research, followed by University of Cambridge and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  2. 2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 5 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 4 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 4 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 4 works
  6. 6 The University of MelbourneAustralia 4 works
  7. 7 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 4 works
  8. 8 University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 3 works
  9. 9 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 3 works
  10. 10 Utah State UniversityUnited States 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies include David Tilman and Carl Folke.

  1. 1 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  2. 2 Carl Folke Sweden 182k 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, Ecological, and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies is "Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change" (Sandra M. Díaz et al., 2019), with 2,746 citations. Next come "The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives" (2,397) and "The shallow and the deep, long‐range ecology movement. A summary∗" (2,397).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change Sandra M. Díaz et al. · Science Open access 12 Dec 2019 2,746
2 The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives Will Steffen, Jacques Grinevald, Paul J. Crutzen et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 31 Jan 2011 2,397
3 The shallow and the deep, long‐range ecology movement. A summary∗ Arne Næss · Inquiry 1973 2,397
4 The neglected 95%: Why American psychology needs to become less American. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett · American Psychologist 2008 2,041
5 The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary Professor Alan Drengson Book chapter 2005 1,250
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Where is Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 18 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 13 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 10 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 10 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 10 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 8 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 6 works
  8. 8 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 6 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 6 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 6 works
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Is Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 56% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural 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 Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0028% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural 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.

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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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