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Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Fish Ecology and Management Studies is a research topic within Nature and Landscape Conservation. Science Explorer counts 77k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges related to freshwater biodiversity. It covers topics such as flow regulation, hydropower dam construction, environmental flows, invasive species, climate change impacts, fisheries sustainability, and habitat fragmentation in river ecosystems.

  • Freshwater Biodiversity
  • Conservation Challenges
  • Flow Regulation
  • Hydropower Dam Construction
  • Environmental Flows
  • Invasive Species
  • Climate Change
  • Fisheries Sustainability
  • Habitat Fragmentation
  • River Ecosystems
Research works
77k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Which countries lead Fish Ecology and Management Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.6k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.6k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 Canada 664 works
  4. 4 India 535 works
  5. 5 Brazil 462 works
  6. 6 Australia 408 works
  7. 7 Japan 362 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 357 works
  9. 9 Russia 332 works
  10. 10 France 325 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: 35.5%China: 17.9%Canada: 9.0%India: 7.2%6 others listed: 30.4%36%largest
United States2,631 · 35.5%China1,325 · 17.9%Canada664 · 9.0%India535 · 7.2%6 others listed2,246 · 30.4%

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

Which institutions lead Fish Ecology and Management Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes the most Fish Ecology and Management Studies research, followed by United States Geological Survey and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 164 works
  2. 2 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 159 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 152 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 144 works
  5. 5 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 115 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 113 works
  7. 7 Fisheries and Oceans CanadaCanada 97 works
  8. 8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 65 works
  9. 9 All-Russian Research Institute Fisheries and OceanographyRussia 52 works
  10. 10 United States Fish and Wildlife ServiceUnited States 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fish Ecology and Management Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fish Ecology and Management Studies include Richard M. Durbin, Jun Wang and Trevor Hastie.

  1. 1 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  4. 4 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  5. 5 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  6. 6 Gordon K. Smyth Australia 237k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  9. 9 Ewan Birney United Kingdom 206k citations
  10. 10 Guangming Zeng China 204k 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 Fish Ecology and Management Studies?

The most cited paper in Fish Ecology and Management Studies is "River flow forecasting through conceptual models part I — A discussion of principles" (J.E. Nash, John V. Sutcliffe, 1970), with 24,392 citations. Next come "Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges" (8,498) and "Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity" (7,637).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 River flow forecasting through conceptual models part I — A discussion of principles J.E. Nash, John V. Sutcliffe · Journal of Hydrology Apr 1970 24,392
2 Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges David Dudgeon, Angela H. Arthington, Mark O. Gessner et al. · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Review 12 Dec 2005 8,498
3 Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity Charles J. Vörösmarty, Peter B. McIntyre, Mark O. Gessner et al. · Nature Open access 28 Sep 2010 7,637
4 A working guide to boosted regression trees Jane Elith, John R. Leathwick, Trevor Hastie · Journal of Animal Ecology Open access 8 Apr 2008 6,617
5 The Natural Flow Regime N. LeRoy Poff, J. David Allan, Mark B. Bain et al. · BioScience Dec 1997 6,478
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fish Ecology and Management Studies research done?

The largest centres of Fish Ecology and Management Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Ottawa (Canada), Washington D.C. (United States) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bārākpur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 368 works
  2. 2 OttawaCanada 163 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 158 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 146 works
  5. 5 RestonUnited States 113 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 105 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 105 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 86 works
  9. 9 SeattleUnited States 83 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 83 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BārākpurIN · 34.5 works135×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fish Ecology and Management Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fish Ecology and Management Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Wageningen University & Research and China Agricultural University score highest, combining citation 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 19.79%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Dalhousie UniversitySwedish University o…Wageningen Universit…
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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.

Citation 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
1Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 70.916.6%26.7×39 +24.9%
2Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 60.913.3%7.1×24 +24.5%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 60.145.9%1.8×10 +90.6%
4Dalhousie UniversityCanada 60.017.1%6.8×24 +34.6%
5Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 57.78.8%20.9×44 +107.9%
6University of British ColumbiaCanada 56.311.6%3.8×43 -27.0%
7Hohai UniversityChina 53.929.3%4.9×27 -6.7%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53.620.4%1.9×29 +10.3%
9Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 53.411.8%6.7×32 -11.4%
10Sichuan UniversityChina 52.723.1%1.3×28 +50.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Fish Ecology and Management Studies, country by country

Is Fish Ecology and Management Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% 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 Fish Ecology and Management Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Fish Ecology and Management Studies0.041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fish Ecology and Management 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.

still counting5%10%15%Fish Ecology and Management Studies10.0% 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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