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Environmental Sustainability and Education

Environmental Sustainability and Education is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% 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 environmental education, sustainability, waste management, water resources, biodiversity, renewable energy, public policy, and social participation. It explores the challenges and possibilities for integrating eco-friendly practices into various aspects of society and emphasizes the importance of sustainable development.

  • Environmental Education
  • Sustainability
  • Waste Management
  • Water Resources
  • Biodiversity
  • Renewable Energy
  • Public Policy
  • Social Participation
  • Eco-friendly Practices
  • Sustainable Development
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
89% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental Sustainability and Education

Which countries lead Environmental Sustainability and Education research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (11k and 408 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 11k works
  2. 2 United States 408 works
  3. 3 Portugal 325 works
  4. 4 Spain 170 works
  5. 5 ?? 112 works
  6. 6 Mexico 105 works
  7. 7 France 79 works
  8. 8 Colombia 78 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 75 works
  10. 10 Italy 53 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.

Brazil: 88.6%United States: 3.3%Portugal: 2.6%Spain: 1.4%6 others listed: 4.1%89%largest
Brazil11k · 88.6%United States408 · 3.3%Portugal325 · 2.6%Spain170 · 1.4%6 others listed502 · 4.1%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Sustainability and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Federal do Pará publishes the most Environmental Sustainability and Education research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 246 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 232 works
  3. 3 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 193 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 183 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 162 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 161 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 159 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 149 works
  9. 9 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 147 works
  10. 10 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 146 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Sustainability and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Sustainability and Education include DOUGLAS TAVARES DUDA, Diego Augusto Santos Silva and Bruno Latour.

  1. 1 DOUGLAS TAVARES DUDA France 162k citations
  2. 2 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations
  3. 3 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  4. 4 Meinrat Otto Andreae Germany 105k 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 Sustainability and Education?

The most cited paper in Environmental Sustainability and Education is "Desenvolvimento como liberdade" (Natália Maria Ventura da Silva Alfaya, 2013), with 3,495 citations. Next come "Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo" (1,725) and "O mito moderno da natureza intocada" (1,289).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Desenvolvimento como liberdade Natália Maria Ventura da Silva Alfaya · Scientia Iuris Open access 4 Dec 2013 3,495
2 Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo M Mendes · REMEA - Revista Eletrônica do Mestrado em Educação Ambiental Open access 20 Aug 2021 1,725
3 O mito moderno da natureza intocada Henrique Martins da Silva, Eliseu Pereira de Brito · Revista Tocantinense de Geografia Open access 29 Apr 2021 1,289
4 Epistemologia ambiental Isabel Cristina de Moura Carvalho · Ambiente & sociedade Open access Jun 2001 833
5 O quadrilátero da formação para a área da saúde: ensino, gestão, atenção e controle social Ricardo Burg Ceccim, Laura Camargo Macruz Feuerwerker · Physis Revista de Saúde Coletiva Open access Jun 2004 636
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Environmental Sustainability and Education research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Sustainability and Education research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belém (Brazil) and Curitiba (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tefé, Porto Alegre and Santarém.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 1.3k works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 816 works
  3. 3 BelémBrazil 457 works
  4. 4 CuritibaBrazil 430 works
  5. 5 BrasíliaBrazil 375 works
  6. 6 RecifeBrazil 356 works
  7. 7 ManausBrazil 320 works
  8. 8 Belo HorizonteBrazil 318 works
  9. 9 FortalezaBrazil 288 works
  10. 10 SalvadorBrazil 270 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TeféBR · 34.1 works159×
  2. Porto AlegreBR · 46.7 works120×
  3. SantarémBR · 46.8 works76×
  4. LajeadoBR · 34.2 works72×
  5. Boa VistaBR · 55.0 works72×
  6. MacapáBR · 61.9 works68×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Environmental Sustainability and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte 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%30%mean 14.16%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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
1Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 69.517.8%15.4×73 +100.2%
2Universidade de São PauloBrazil 66.011.6%10.5×232 -7.7%
3Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 64.113.6%34.5×142 +10.3%
4Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 62.912.1%67.4×158 +15.1%
5Universidade CeumaBrazil 62.124.8%46.8×17 +24.5%
6Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 61.711.3%21.9×183 -3.8%
7Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 61.29.3%56.9×246 +0.7%
8Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 60.211.1%15.0×121 +7.3%
9Community University of Chapecó Region - UnochapecóBrazil 60.020.4%80.6×28 +45.3%
10Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulBrazil 59.19.6%43.5×109 +24.2%

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 Sustainability and Education, country by country

Is Environmental Sustainability and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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grewheldshrank

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 Sustainability and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.058% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Environmental Sustainability and Education0.044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Sustainability and Education 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 Sustainability and Education9.5% 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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