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Geology and Environmental Impact Studies

Geology and Environmental Impact Studies is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 6.5k research works in it since 1956. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to environmental law, sustainable development, and natural resource management. It includes discussions on environmental protection, public participation in environmental issues, mining regulations, habitat distribution, geoinformation systems, mineral resources, land reclamation, water management, and biodiversity conservation.

  • Environmental Protection
  • Public Participation
  • Sustainable Development
  • Mining Regulations
  • Habitat Distribution
  • Geoinformation Systems
  • Mineral Resources
  • Land Reclamation
  • Water Management
  • Biodiversity Conservation
Research works
6.5k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
636
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-39%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
82% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geology and Environmental Impact Studies

Which countries lead Geology and Environmental Impact Studies research?

By volume, Poland and Ukraine publish the most (288 and 11 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 288 works
  2. 2 Ukraine 11 works
  3. 3 Romania 10 works
  4. 4 Russia 9 works
  5. 5 United States 9 works
  6. 6 Czechia 8 works
  7. 7 Slovakia 6 works
  8. 8 China 4 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 4 works
  10. 10 France 2 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.

Poland: 82.1%Ukraine: 3.2%Romania: 2.9%Russia: 2.6%6 others listed: 9.2%82%largest
Poland288 · 82.1%Ukraine11 · 3.2%Romania10 · 2.9%Russia9 · 2.6%6 others listed32 · 9.2%

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

Which institutions lead Geology and Environmental Impact Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Geology and Environmental Impact Studies research, followed by AGH University of Krakow and Silesian University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 29 works
  2. 2 AGH University of KrakowPoland 20 works
  3. 3 Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 13 works
  4. 4 University of WarsawPoland 13 works
  5. 5 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 12 works
  6. 6 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 11 works
  7. 7 Polish Geological InstitutePoland 10 works
  8. 8 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 10 works
  9. 9 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 7 works
  10. 10 University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geology and Environmental Impact Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geology and Environmental Impact Studies include Maciej R. Górski and Ming Hung Wong.

  1. 1 Maciej R. Górski Austria 112k citations
  2. 2 Ming Hung Wong China 64k 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 Geology and Environmental Impact Studies?

The most cited paper in Geology and Environmental Impact Studies is "Mine-water chemistry: the good, the bad and the ugly" (David Archibald Banks, Paul L. Younger, R.T. Arnesen et al., 1997), with 570 citations. Next come "Tertiary evolution of the Intra-Carpathian area: A model" (413) and "Acid mine drainage formation, control and treatment: Approaches and strategies" (312).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mine-water chemistry: the good, the bad and the ugly David Archibald Banks, Paul L. Younger, R.T. Arnesen et al. · Environmental Geology 17 Oct 1997 570
2 Tertiary evolution of the Intra-Carpathian area: A model László Csontos, A. Nagymarosy, Ferenc Horváth et al. · Tectonophysics Jul 1992 413
3 Acid mine drainage formation, control and treatment: Approaches and strategies Jeff Skousen, Paul F. Ziemkiewicz, Louis M. McDonald · The Extractive Industries and Society 5 Oct 2018 312
4 Sustainable Development of Mining Mineral Resources J. Dubiński · Journal of Sustainable Mining Open access 2013 252
5 Late Jurassic-Miocene evolution of the Outer Carpathian fold-and-thrust belt and its foredeep basin (Western Carpathians, Poland) Nestor Oszczypko · Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University) Open access 2006 195
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Geology and Environmental Impact Studies research done?

The largest centres of Geology and Environmental Impact Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Katowice (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Katowice, Krakow and Poznań.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 68 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 56 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 24 works
  4. 4 KatowicePoland 21 works
  5. 5 WrocławPoland 20 works
  6. 6 GliwicePoland 14 works
  7. 7 LublinPoland 14 works
  8. 8 ŁódźPoland 10 works
  9. 9 GdańskPoland 9 works
  10. 10 KielcePoland 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KatowicePL · 20.5 works106×
  2. KrakowPL · 56.2 works95×
  3. PoznańPL · 23.9 works68×
  4. WarsawPL · 68.0 works62×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geology and Environmental Impact Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Geology and Environmental Impact Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, AGH University of Krakow, University of Silesia in Katowice and Silesian University of Technology 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 10.5333%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Silesian University …University of Silesi…AGH University of Kr…University of Warsaw
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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
1AGH University of KrakowPoland 69.614.3%161.5×20 -62.3%
2University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 53.817.0%182.8×12 -18.4%
3Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 50.221.2%159.7×13 -46.0%
4University of WarsawPoland 23.51.0%76.7×13 +0.5%
5Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 17.65.3%47.2×10 +36.5%
6Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 7.24.4%87.4×11 -12.2%

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 Geology and Environmental Impact Studies, country by country

Is Geology and Environmental Impact Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

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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 Geology and Environmental Impact Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Geology and Environmental Impact Studies0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geology and Environmental Impact 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%Geology and Environmental Impact Studies11.1% 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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