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Forest Management and Policy

Forest Management and Policy is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impacts of climate change on forest carbon sequestration, sustainable forest management, and the economic value of European forests. It covers topics such as adaptive forest management, biodiversity conservation, private forest ownership, and the role of forests in mitigating climate change through carbon sinks.

  • Forest Carbon Sequestration
  • Climate Change Impacts
  • Sustainable Forest Management
  • Economic Value
  • Adaptive Management
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Private Forest Ownership
  • Carbon Sinks
  • Timber Production
  • European Forestry
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Forest Management and Policy

Which countries lead Forest Management and Policy research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (841 and 707 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 841 works
  2. 2 China 707 works
  3. 3 Germany 253 works
  4. 4 Russia 209 works
  5. 5 Canada 183 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 173 works
  7. 7 Italy 155 works
  8. 8 India 154 works
  9. 9 Finland 144 works
  10. 10 Spain 132 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: 28.5%China: 24.0%Germany: 8.6%Russia: 7.1%6 others listed: 31.9%28%largest
United States841 · 28.5%China707 · 24.0%Germany253 · 8.6%Russia209 · 7.1%6 others listed941 · 31.9%

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

Which institutions lead Forest Management and Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Agriculture publishes the most Forest Management and Policy research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 81 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 57 works
  3. 3 Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 53 works
  4. 4 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 46 works
  5. 5 Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 41 works
  6. 6 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 38 works
  7. 7 Natural Resources Institute FinlandFinland 37 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 36 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 35 works
  10. 10 University of GeorgiaUnited States 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Forest Management and Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Forest Management and Policy include Mark A. Bradford, Philippe Ciais and David Tilman.

  1. 1 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  4. 4 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  5. 5 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  6. 6 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  7. 7 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  8. 8 Stephen R. Carpenter United States 165k citations
  9. 9 Pamela S. Soltis United States 165k 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 Management and Policy?

The most cited paper in Forest Management and Policy is "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change" (Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al., 2013), with 11,936 citations. Next come "Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100" (9,345) and "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges" (4,673).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al. · Science 14 Nov 2013 11,936
2 Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100 Osvaldo E. Sala, F. Stuart Chapin, Iii. et al. · Science 10 Mar 2000 9,345
3 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem, Pablo Inchausti et al. · Science 26 Oct 2001 4,673
4 Consequences of changing biodiversity F. Stuart Chapin, Erika S. Zavaleta, Valerie T. Eviner et al. · Nature Open access May 2000 4,302
5 Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity Andrés Baselga · Global Ecology and Biogeography Open access Oct 2009 4,034
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Forest Management and Policy research done?

The largest centres of Forest Management and Policy research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Helsinki (Finland), Uppsala (Sweden) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zvolen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 235 works
  2. 2 HelsinkiFinland 83 works
  3. 3 UppsalaSweden 65 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 58 works
  5. 5 VoronezhRussia 47 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 46 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 44 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 40 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 36 works
  10. 10 OttawaCanada 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZvolenSK · 23.0 works137×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Forest Management and Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and University of Helsinki 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.

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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 77.820.6%15.9×24 +7.7%
2Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 74.315.0%81.6×53 -8.1%
3University of HelsinkiFinland 67.916.0%10.1×30 +5.8%
4Beijing Normal UniversityChina 63.324.6%3.4×12 +123.7%
5BOKU UniversityAustria 63.115.0%44.6×19 -24.8%
6Lund UniversitySweden 62.219.1%4.3×10 +25.7%
7Peking UniversityChina 61.722.4%1.4×12 +180.9%
8ETH ZurichSwitzerland 59.213.4%5.6×16 +22.2%
9Czech University of Life Sciences PragueCzechia 58.310.1%49.8×21 +22.7%
10Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 58.212.6%29.9×38 +227.0%

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 Management and Policy, country by country

Is Forest Management and Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Forest Management and Policy.

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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 Management and Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Forest Management and Policy0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Forest Management and Policy 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 Management and Policy10.1% 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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