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Indigenous Studies and Ecology

Indigenous Studies and Ecology is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the health, well-being, and resilience of Arctic Indigenous Peoples, focusing on the impacts of climate change, traditional ecological knowledge, food security, and the nutrition transition. It highlights the vulnerability of communities such as the Inuit and Sami to environmental and social changes, and the importance of integrating traditional knowledge with scientific research for effective adaptation strategies.

  • Arctic Indigenous Peoples
  • climate change
  • traditional knowledge
  • food security
  • nutrition transition
  • community-based monitoring
  • vulnerability
  • Inuit
  • Sami
  • ecological knowledge
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Indigenous Studies and Ecology

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Indigenous Studies and Ecology research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (885 and 681 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 885 works
  2. 2 Canada 681 works
  3. 3 Russia 569 works
  4. 4 Australia 271 works
  5. 5 Norway 172 works
  6. 6 France 166 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 165 works
  8. 8 China 144 works
  9. 9 Finland 113 works
  10. 10 Denmark 97 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: 27.1%Canada: 20.9%Russia: 17.4%Australia: 8.3%6 others listed: 26.2%27%largest
United States885 · 27.1%Canada681 · 20.9%Russia569 · 17.4%Australia271 · 8.3%6 others listed856 · 26.2%

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

Which institutions lead Indigenous Studies and Ecology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Indigenous Studies and Ecology research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of British Columbia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 227 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 54 works
  3. 3 University of British ColumbiaCanada 43 works
  4. 4 UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNorway 40 works
  5. 5 North-Eastern Federal UniversityRussia 39 works
  6. 6 Université LavalCanada 36 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 33 works
  8. 8 University of HelsinkiFinland 27 works
  9. 9 University of Alaska FairbanksUnited States 27 works
  10. 10 University of CopenhagenDenmark 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Indigenous Studies and Ecology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Indigenous Studies and Ecology include Rob Knight, Elaine R. Mardis and Michael Snyder.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
  3. 3 Michael Snyder United States 224k 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 Indigenous Studies and Ecology?

The most cited paper in Indigenous Studies and Ecology is "The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives" (Will Steffen, Jacques Grinevald, Paul J. Crutzen et al., 2011), with 2,397 citations. Next come "Indigenous health part 2: the underlying causes of the health gap" (1,504) and "Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change" (1,276).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives Will Steffen, Jacques Grinevald, Paul J. Crutzen et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 31 Jan 2011 2,397
2 Indigenous health part 2: the underlying causes of the health gap Malcolm King, Alexandra G. Smith, Michael S Gracey · The Lancet Jul 2009 1,504
3 Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change Eric Post et al. · Science 10 Sep 2009 1,276
4 Determination of trophic relationships within a high Arctic marine food web using δ13C and δ15N analysis KA Hobson, HE Welch · Marine Ecology Progress Series Open access 1992 1,200
5 Island Biogeography — Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Rosemary Grace Gillespie · Heredity Jul 1999 1,150
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Indigenous Studies and Ecology research done?

The largest centres of Indigenous Studies and Ecology research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Yakutsk (Russia), Ottawa (Canada) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kautokeino, Rovaniemi and Yakutsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 136 works
  2. 2 YakutskRussia 78 works
  3. 3 OttawaCanada 74 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 68 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 65 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 64 works
  7. 7 MontrealCanada 59 works
  8. 8 TromsøNorway 47 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 46 works
  10. 10 QuébecCanada 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KautokeinoNO · 20.2 works873×
  2. RovaniemiFI · 23.8 works164×
  3. YakutskRU · 78.2 works140×
  4. FairbanksUS · 27.4 works113×
  5. TromsøNO · 47.3 works50×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Indigenous Studies and Ecology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Indigenous Studies and Ecology?

Among universities, judged by research, University of British Columbia, University of Guelph and University of Victoria 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%30%mean 15.99%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of VictoriaUniversity of GuelphUniversity of Britis…University of Toronto
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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
1University of British ColumbiaCanada 77.615.6%9.9×43 +4.0%
2University of GuelphCanada 74.216.1%22.8×23 +33.2%
3University of VictoriaCanada 66.126.4%20.3×16 -33.7%
4University of TorontoCanada 64.713.4%4.5×33 +4.9%
5Sapienza University of RomeItaly 64.627.4%3.6×15 -
6The University of QueenslandAustralia 61.116.5%5.0×17 +18.9%
7University of CopenhagenDenmark 58.87.1%7.6×26 +24.3%
8UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNorway 58.67.2%62.8×40 -21.1%
9The University of AdelaideAustralia 57.922.9%6.7×10 +107.1%
10Université LavalCanada 57.27.3%23.4×36 -0.2%

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 Indigenous Studies and Ecology, country by country

Is Indigenous Studies and Ecology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Indigenous Studies and Ecology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Indigenous Studies and Ecology0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Indigenous Studies and Ecology 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%Indigenous Studies and Ecology10.3% 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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