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Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

Environmental Philosophy and Ethics is a research topic within Nature and Landscape Conservation. Science Explorer counts 8.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of rewilding, encompassing ecological restoration, conservation ethics, de-extinction, and environmental aesthetics. It delves into the complexities of reintroducing species, the role of ecological citizenship, and the ethical considerations in conservation practices. The papers also discuss the challenges and opportunities in trophic rewilding, place attachment in restoration ecology, and the aesthetic value of natural environments.

  • Rewilding
  • Conservation
  • Ecological Citizenship
  • Environmental Ethics
  • De-extinction
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Trophic Rewilding
  • Place Attachment
  • Environmental Aesthetics
  • Biodiversity Management
Research works
8.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
860
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

Which countries lead Environmental Philosophy and Ethics research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (366 and 205 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 366 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 205 works
  3. 3 Germany 120 works
  4. 4 India 97 works
  5. 5 China 92 works
  6. 6 Australia 89 works
  7. 7 Italy 74 works
  8. 8 France 74 works
  9. 9 Canada 72 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 66 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: 29.2%United Kingdom: 16.3%Germany: 9.5%India: 7.7%6 others listed: 37.3%29%largest
United States366 · 29.2%United Kingdom205 · 16.3%Germany120 · 9.5%India97 · 7.7%6 others listed468 · 37.3%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Philosophy and Ethics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Environmental Philosophy and Ethics research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Helsinki.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 22 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 15 works
  3. 3 University of HelsinkiFinland 14 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 14 works
  5. 5 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 12 works
  6. 6 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 9 works
  7. 7 University of CopenhagenDenmark 9 works
  8. 8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 8 works
  9. 9 University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 8 works
  10. 10 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Philosophy and Ethics include David Tilman, F. Stuart Chapin and Carl Folke.

  1. 1 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  2. 2 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  3. 3 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  4. 4 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  5. 5 Detlef Peter van Vuuren Netherlands 126k citations
  6. 6 Kevin J. Gaston United Kingdom 123k citations
  7. 7 Robert Mccredie May United Kingdom 122k 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 Philosophy and Ethics?

The most cited paper in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics is "The Tragedy of the Commons*" (Garrett Hardin, 2009), with 6,410 citations. Next come "The shallow and the deep, long‐range ecology movement. A summary∗" (2,397) and "Sustainable development: mapping different approaches" (2,309).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Tragedy of the Commons* Garrett Hardin · Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research Open access Jul 2009 6,410
2 The shallow and the deep, long‐range ecology movement. A summary∗ Arne Næss · Inquiry 1973 2,397
3 Sustainable development: mapping different approaches Bill Hopwood, Mary Mellor, Geoff O’Brien · Sustainable Development 2005 2,309
4 Rethinking Community‐Based Conservation Fikret Berkes · Conservation Biology Open access 10 May 2004 1,890
5 Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment Kai M. A. Chan, Patricia Balvanera, Karina Benessaiah et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 9 Feb 2016 1,767
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Environmental Philosophy and Ethics research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 25 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 23 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 21 works
  5. 5 HelsinkiFinland 20 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 19 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 18 works
  8. 8 OxfordUnited Kingdom 17 works
  9. 9 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 15 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HelsinkiFI · 20.4 works8.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Environmental Philosophy and Ethics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Helsinki and University of Exeter 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 17.3556%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ExeterUniversity of OxfordWageningen Universit…University of Helsinki
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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 81.824.2%5.7×15 +64.1%
2University of HelsinkiFinland 73.313.8%10.9×14 +138.8%
3University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 68.737.9%10.7×8 +158.3%
4Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 67.124.0%17.4×12 -21.1%
5University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.19.6%6.1×14 +4.3%
6Aarhus UniversityDenmark 50.624.6%6.0×10 -1.9%
7University of CopenhagenDenmark 44.810.7%5.4×9 +165.3%
8The University of MelbourneAustralia 33.111.2%4.1×8 +13.1%
9Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 20.00.2%10.8×8 +168.1%

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 Philosophy and Ethics, country by country

Is Environmental Philosophy and Ethics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental Philosophy and Ethics.

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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 Philosophy and Ethics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Environmental Philosophy and Ethics0.0090% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Philosophy and Ethics 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 Philosophy and Ethics10.4% 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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