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Environmental Sustainability and Technology

Environmental Sustainability and Technology is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 5k research works in it since 1962. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the spatial development, environmental management, and sustainable development in Russia. It covers topics such as regional policies, artificial intelligence, geographical analysis, economic growth, remote sensing, green economy, and resource management.

  • Spatial Development
  • Environmental Management
  • Sustainable Development
  • Regional Policies
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geographical Analysis
  • Economic Growth
  • Remote Sensing
  • Green Economy
  • Resource Management
Research works
5k
fractional, since 1962
In the world top 10%
496
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
66% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental Sustainability and Technology

Which countries lead Environmental Sustainability and Technology research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (1.2k and 209 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.2k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 209 works
  3. 3 China 160 works
  4. 4 United States 86 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 54 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 35 works
  7. 7 Belarus 28 works
  8. 8 Tajikistan 18 works
  9. 9 Azerbaijan 18 works
  10. 10 Poland 16 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.

Russia: 66.2%Ukraine: 11.4%China: 8.7%United States: 4.7%6 others listed: 9.1%66%largest
Russia1,219 · 66.2%Ukraine209 · 11.4%China160 · 8.7%United States86 · 4.7%6 others listed168 · 9.1%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Sustainability and Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Environmental Sustainability and Technology research, followed by Lomonosov Moscow State University and Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 170 works
  2. 2 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 39 works
  3. 3 Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 35 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 State University of Land Use PlanningRussia 24 works
  6. 6 Don State Technical UniversityRussia 23 works
  7. 7 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 20 works
  8. 8 Financial UniversityRussia 20 works
  9. 9 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 19 works
  10. 10 Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 19 works

What are the most cited papers in Environmental Sustainability and Technology?

The most cited paper in Environmental Sustainability and Technology is "Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries" (Bruce Campbell, Douglas Beare, Elena M. Bennett et al., 2017), with 1,196 citations. Next come "Google Earth Engine: A Global Analysis and Future Trends" (197) and "Efficiency Assessment of Multitemporal C-Band Radarsat-2 Intensity and Landsat-8 Surface Reflectance Satellite Imagery for Crop Classification in Ukraine" (174).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries Bruce Campbell, Douglas Beare, Elena M. Bennett et al. · Ecology and Society Open access 2017 1,196
2 Google Earth Engine: A Global Analysis and Future Trends Andrés Velástegui-Montoya, Néstor Montalván-Burbano, Paúl Carrión-Mero et al. · Remote Sensing Open access 23 Jul 2023 197
3 Efficiency Assessment of Multitemporal C-Band Radarsat-2 Intensity and Landsat-8 Surface Reflectance Satellite Imagery for Crop Classification in Ukraine Sergii V. Skakun, Nataliia Kussul, Андрій Шелестов et al. · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 31 Jul 2015 174
4 Public–Private Partnerships as a Mechanism of Financing Sustainable Development Bruno S. Sergi, Elena G. Popkova, Kseniya V. Borzenko et al. · Palgrave studies in impact finance Book chapter 2019 143
5 Evaluation of Long-Term Changes in Radiation, Cloudiness, and Surface Temperature on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union G. M. Abakumova, E. M. Feigelson, Viivi Russak et al. · Journal of Climate Open access Jun 1996 137
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Environmental Sustainability and Technology research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Sustainability and Technology research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Voronezh (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov-on-Don.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 404 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 88 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 70 works
  4. 4 VoronezhRussia 55 works
  5. 5 Rostov-on-DonRussia 50 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 44 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 38 works
  8. 8 NovosibirskRussia 36 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 34 works
  10. 10 IrkutskRussia 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VoronezhRU · 55.4 works80×
  2. VolgogradRU · 25.4 works57×
  3. Rostov-on-DonRU · 50.4 works56×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Financial University and O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv 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 10.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Financial UniversityO.M. Beketov Nationa…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…Weatherford College
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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
1Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 62.79.8%27.2×39 +8.1%
2Financial UniversityRussia 61.419.5%53.4×20 +36.4%
3O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in KharkivUkraine 54.917.1%165.3×17 +99.7%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 50.79.4%11.8×27 +76.6%
5Southern Federal UniversityRussia 48.415.2%58.7×17 -0.6%
6Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia 47.212.1%86.5×18 +24.4%
7Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 44.69.3%26.6×9 -54.3%
8Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 43.23.7%181.2×35 +389.6%
9Don State Technical UniversityRussia 42.76.5%113.3×23 +4.2%
10Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 39.95.5%36.2×16 +19.8%

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 Sustainability and Technology, country by country

Is Environmental Sustainability and Technology research growing?

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

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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 Sustainability and Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0060% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Environmental Sustainability and Technology0.0059% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Sustainability and Technology 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 Technology10.2% in 202520102020

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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