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Forest Biomass Utilization and Management

Forest Biomass Utilization and Management is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 14k 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 focuses on the optimization and sustainable management of biomass supply chains for bioenergy production. It covers topics such as logistics, life cycle assessment, uncertainty, multiobjective optimization, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze biomass resources and facilities locations.

  • Biomass
  • Supply Chain
  • Logistics
  • Bioenergy
  • Optimization
  • Sustainability
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Uncertainty
  • Multiobjective
  • GIS
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Forest Biomass Utilization and Management

Which countries lead Forest Biomass Utilization and Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (350 and 274 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 350 works
  2. 2 China 274 works
  3. 3 Russia 201 works
  4. 4 Brazil 144 works
  5. 5 India 135 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 122 works
  7. 7 Canada 94 works
  8. 8 Germany 93 works
  9. 9 Italy 93 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 87 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: 21.9%China: 17.2%Russia: 12.6%Brazil: 9.1%6 others listed: 39.2%22%largest
United States350 · 21.9%China274 · 17.2%Russia201 · 12.6%Brazil144 · 9.1%6 others listed625 · 39.2%

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

Which institutions lead Forest Biomass Utilization and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies publishes the most Forest Biomass Utilization and Management research, followed by United States Department of Agriculture and Leibniz Association.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 47 works
  2. 2 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 28 works
  3. 3 Leibniz AssociationGermany 23 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  5. 5 University of ZagrebCroatia 16 works
  6. 6 Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 16 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 15 works
  8. 8 Université LavalCanada 15 works
  9. 9 University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 14 works
  10. 10 Transylvania University of BrașovRomania 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Forest Biomass Utilization and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Forest Biomass Utilization and Management include Philippe Ciais, John G.F. Cleland and Peter B. Reich.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 John G.F. Cleland United Kingdom 198k citations
  3. 3 Peter B. Reich United States 189k 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 Forest Biomass Utilization and Management?

The most cited paper in Forest Biomass Utilization and Management is "Pyrolysis of Wood/Biomass for Bio-oil: A Critical Review" (Dinesh Mohan, Charles U. Jr. Pittman, Philip H. Steele, 2006), with 5,627 citations. Next come "Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass" (1,824) and "An overview of fast pyrolysis of biomass" (1,746).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Pyrolysis of Wood/Biomass for Bio-oil: A Critical Review Dinesh Mohan, Charles U. Jr. Pittman, Philip H. Steele · Energy & Fuels 10 Mar 2006 5,627
2 Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass David Tilman, Jason Hill, Clarence L. Lehman · Science 7 Dec 2006 1,824
3 An overview of fast pyrolysis of biomass A.V. Bridgwater, Dietrich Meier, Desmond St. A. G. Radlein · Organic Geochemistry Dec 1999 1,746
4 The development and current status of perennial rhizomatous grasses as energy crops in the US and Europe Iris M. Lewandowski, Jonathan M. O. Scurlock, Eva Lindvall et al. · Biomass and Bioenergy 25 Mar 2003 1,351
5 The contribution of biomass in the future global energy supply: a review of 17 studies Göran Berndes, Monique M. Hoogwijk, Richard van den Broek · Biomass and Bioenergy 12 May 2003 1,154
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Where is Forest Biomass Utilization and Management research done?

The largest centres of Forest Biomass Utilization and Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Voronezh (Russia), Tehran (Iran) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Müncheberg and Voronezh.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 74 works
  2. 2 VoronezhRussia 63 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 24 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 24 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 24 works
  6. 6 UppsalaSweden 23 works
  7. 7 HelsinkiFinland 22 works
  8. 8 PoznańPoland 21 works
  9. 9 MünchebergGermany 20 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MünchebergDE · 20.2 works213×
  2. VoronezhRU · 63.1 works60×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Forest Biomass Utilization and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Forest Biomass Utilization and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, BOKU University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Université Laval 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 16.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →BOKU UniversityUniversity of Warmia…Université LavalSwedish University o…
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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
1BOKU UniversityAustria 69.237.6%44.8×12 -8.6%
2Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 53.413.8%39.7×16 -34.3%
3Université LavalCanada 52.513.9%13.5×15 +25.4%
4University of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynPoland 51.724.4%17.9×8 +25.2%
5Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 50.20.0%162.5×47 +43.9%
6University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 48.516.5%54.2×14 +34.7%
7University of GeorgiaUnited States 47.48.5%11.5×13 +22.6%
8Mendel University in BrnoCzechia 46.115.3%59.1×11 +49.2%
9Università degli Studi della TusciaItaly 45.517.4%49.4×9 -2.8%
10Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 44.920.0%15.4×12 +240.5%

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 Forest Biomass Utilization and Management, country by country

Is Forest Biomass Utilization and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Forest Biomass Utilization and Management.

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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 Forest Biomass Utilization and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Forest Biomass Utilization and Management0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Forest Biomass Utilization and Management 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%Forest Biomass Utilization and Management10.2% 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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