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Forest ecology and management

Forest ecology and management is a research topic within Nature and Landscape Conservation. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and improvement of allometric models for estimating biomass and carbon stocks in tropical forests. It also addresses the challenges and uncertainties associated with forest biomass estimation, including the impact of climate change on forest site productivity and the development of height-diameter models for accurate biomass estimation.

  • Allometric Models
  • Biomass Estimation
  • Carbon Stocks
  • Tropical Forests
  • Tree Allometry
  • Forest Site Productivity
  • Aboveground Biomass
  • Tree Height-Diameter Models
  • Stand Density
  • Climate Change Impact
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Forest ecology and management

Which countries lead Forest ecology and management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (983 and 690 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 983 works
  2. 2 United States 690 works
  3. 3 Brazil 551 works
  4. 4 India 356 works
  5. 5 Germany 215 works
  6. 6 Canada 191 works
  7. 7 Russia 175 works
  8. 8 Mexico 175 works
  9. 9 Spain 163 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 149 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.

China: 26.9%United States: 18.9%Brazil: 15.1%India: 9.8%6 others listed: 29.3%27%largest
China983 · 26.9%United States690 · 18.9%Brazil551 · 15.1%India356 · 9.8%6 others listed1,069 · 29.3%

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

Which institutions lead Forest ecology and management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Forest ecology and management research, followed by United States Department of Agriculture and Northeast Forestry University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 107 works
  2. 2 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 75 works
  3. 3 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 70 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 54 works
  5. 5 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 50 works
  6. 6 State Forestry and Grassland AdministrationChina 43 works
  7. 7 Indian Council of Forestry Research and EducationIndia 42 works
  8. 8 Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 39 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of ForestryChina 38 works
  10. 10 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Forest ecology and management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Forest ecology and management include Steven L. Salzberg, Mark A. Bradford and Leo Breiman.

  1. 1 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  2. 2 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  3. 3 Leo Breiman United States 243k citations
  4. 4 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  5. 5 David Tilman United States 209k 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 management?

The most cited paper in Forest ecology and management is "Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package" (Wolfgang Viechtbauer, 2010), with 19,468 citations. Next come "The worldwide leaf economics spectrum" (9,121) and "Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution" (9,021).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package Wolfgang Viechtbauer · Journal of Statistical Software Open access 2010 19,468
2 The worldwide leaf economics spectrum Ian J. Wright et al. · Nature Open access Apr 2004 9,121
3 Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution Benjamin M. Bolker, M. Brooks, Connie J. Clark et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution ReviewOpen access 29 Jan 2009 9,021
4 A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Chris S. Elphick · Methods in Ecology and Evolution Open access 13 Nov 2009 8,308
5 VEGAN, a package of R functions for community ecology Philip M. Dixon · Journal of Vegetation Science 9 Apr 2003 7,096
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Forest ecology and management research done?

The largest centres of Forest ecology and management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Harbin (China), São Paulo (Brazil) and Helsinki (Finland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zvolen, Farnham and Coyoacán.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 336 works
  2. 2 HarbinChina 76 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 67 works
  4. 4 HelsinkiFinland 53 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 48 works
  6. 6 UppsalaSweden 47 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 46 works
  8. 8 PragueCzechia 42 works
  9. 9 CuritibaBrazil 41 works
  10. 10 Dehra DūnIndia 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZvolenSK · 27.5 works130×
  2. FarnhamGB · 21.0 works98×
  3. CoyoacánMX · 27.9 works84×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Forest ecology and management?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Forestry University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Northeast Forestry 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%20%40%mean 22.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanjing Forestry Uni…University of Göttin…Swedish University o…Northeast Forestry U…
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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
1Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 67.028.3%12.3×30 +28.5%
2Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 66.716.5%47.0×39 +11.9%
3Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 63.011.6%43.7×70 +54.4%
4University of GöttingenGermany 58.324.6%13.9×27 -17.5%
5Zhejiang A & F UniversityChina 57.620.0%20.3×17 +51.0%
6Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 57.214.8%33.4×50 +8.2%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55.427.8%2.2×19 +23.0%
8BOKU UniversityAustria 54.715.4%32.1×18 +4.9%
9University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 54.736.8%3.0×9 -3.1%
10Peking UniversityChina 54.428.8%1.1×12 +72.2%

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 management, country by country

Is Forest ecology and management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Forest ecology 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 ecology and management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Forest ecology and management0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Forest ecology 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 ecology and management10.1% 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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