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Forest Ecology and Conservation

Forest Ecology and Conservation is a research topic within Forestry. Science Explorer counts 7.3k research works in it since 1970. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of agroforestry, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable land management practices. It covers topics such as medicinal plant diversity, forest health assessment, land suitability evaluation, community-based forest management, and the use of geographic information systems for mapping and monitoring. The cluster also explores the role of social capital in supporting agroforestry initiatives and emphasizes the importance of climate resilience and soil conservation in these practices.

  • Agroforestry
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Forest Health
  • Land Suitability
  • Community Management
  • Geographic Information System
  • Social Capital
  • Climate Resilience
  • Soil Conservation
Research works
7.3k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
716
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
92% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Forest Ecology and Conservation

Which countries lead Forest Ecology and Conservation research?

By volume, Indonesia and Malaysia publish the most (2.9k and 56 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 2.9k works
  2. 2 Malaysia 56 works
  3. 3 United States 41 works
  4. 4 ?? 32 works
  5. 5 Philippines 29 works
  6. 6 India 24 works
  7. 7 China 18 works
  8. 8 Japan 16 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 13 works
  10. 10 Thailand 9 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.

Indonesia: 92.4%Malaysia: 1.8%United States: 1.3%??: 1.0%6 others listed: 3.5%92%largest
Indonesia2,910 · 92.4%Malaysia56 · 1.8%United States41 · 1.3%??32 · 1.0%6 others listed109 · 3.5%

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

Which institutions lead Forest Ecology and Conservation research?

By volume in 2022-now, IPB University publishes the most Forest Ecology and Conservation research, followed by Lambung Mangkurat University and Lampung University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IPB UniversityIndonesia 157 works
  2. 2 Lambung Mangkurat UniversityIndonesia 109 works
  3. 3 Lampung UniversityIndonesia 78 works
  4. 4 Tanjungpura UniversityIndonesia 75 works
  5. 5 University of MataramIndonesia 74 works
  6. 6 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 70 works
  7. 7 University of PattimuraIndonesia 63 works
  8. 8 Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 62 works
  9. 9 National Research and Innovation AgencyIndonesia 62 works
  10. 10 Universitas Syiah KualaIndonesia 61 works

Who are the leading researchers in Forest Ecology and Conservation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Forest Ecology and Conservation include Yakov V. Kuzyakov, Yadvinder Singh Malhi and Matthew C. Hansen.

  1. 1 Yakov V. Kuzyakov Germany 100k citations
  2. 2 Yadvinder Singh Malhi United Kingdom 90k citations
  3. 3 Matthew C. Hansen United States 60k citations
  4. 4 Stefan Scheu Germany 56k citations
  5. 5 Diana H. Wall United States 48k 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 Ecology and Conservation?

The most cited paper in Forest Ecology and Conservation is "Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia" (Kimberly M. Carlson, Lisa M. Curran, Dessy Ratnasari et al., 2012), with 485 citations. Next come "Phenology of a tropical rain forest in Malaya" (281) and "Aquilaria spp. (agarwood) as source of health beneficial compounds: A review of traditional use, phytochemistry and pharmacology" (254).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Kimberly M. Carlson, Lisa M. Curran, Dessy Ratnasari et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 20 Apr 2012 485
2 Phenology of a tropical rain forest in Malaya Lord Medway · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Jun 1972 281
3 Aquilaria spp. (agarwood) as source of health beneficial compounds: A review of traditional use, phytochemistry and pharmacology Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun Hashim, Philip G. Kerr, Phirdaous Abbas et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology 23 Jun 2016 254
4 Prediction of Land Use and Land Cover Changes for North Sumatra, Indonesia, Using an Artificial-Neural-Network-Based Cellular Automaton Muhammad Hadi Saputra, Han Soo Lee · Sustainability Open access 28 May 2019 253
5 Soil Nitrogen-Cycling Responses to Conversion of Lowland Forests to Oil Palm and Rubber Plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia Kara Allen, Marife D. Corre, Aiyen B. Tjoa et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 29 Jul 2015 249
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Forest Ecology and Conservation research done?

The largest centres of Forest Ecology and Conservation research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bogor (Indonesia), Medan (Indonesia) and Banjarmasin (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Manokwari, Banjarmasin and Ambon City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 203 works
  2. 2 BogorIndonesia 199 works
  3. 3 MedanIndonesia 135 works
  4. 4 BanjarmasinIndonesia 112 works
  5. 5 MalangIndonesia 109 works
  6. 6 YogyakartaIndonesia 107 works
  7. 7 BandungIndonesia 101 works
  8. 8 Bandar LampungIndonesia 98 works
  9. 9 PontianakIndonesia 96 works
  10. 10 PadangIndonesia 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ManokwariID · 27.9 works137×
  2. BanjarmasinID · 112.3 works61×
  3. Ambon CityID · 67.2 works52×
  4. SamarindaID · 68.1 works42×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Forest Ecology and Conservation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Forest Ecology and Conservation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Indonesia, Padjadjaran University and IPB University 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 14.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Indone…Padjadjaran UniversitySebelas Maret Univer…IPB University
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 IndonesiaIndonesia 78.220.6%12.6×41 +2.1%
2Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 76.816.2%14.1×34 +13.4%
3IPB UniversityIndonesia 75.414.4%100.8×157 -23.0%
4Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 72.015.3%22.1×57 +29.2%
5Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 69.713.9%26.4×70 -21.8%
6Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa UniversityIndonesia 64.215.5%11.1×12 +260.8%
7University of BrawijayaIndonesia 63.213.0%21.4×52 -3.5%
8State University of PadangIndonesia 62.413.9%10.6×31 +35.8%
9Andalas UniversityIndonesia 62.310.8%30.4×42 +37.8%
10Universitas Syiah KualaIndonesia 61.810.6%51.8×61 +4.2%

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 Forest Ecology and Conservation, country by country

Is Forest Ecology and Conservation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Forest Ecology and Conservation.

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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 Ecology and Conservation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Forest Ecology and Conservation0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Forest Ecology and Conservation 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 Ecology and Conservation9.7% 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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