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Land Use and Management

Land Use and Management is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 3.1k research works in it since 1953. 10.0% 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 European integration, regional development in Ukraine, soil management, COVID-19, oligarchs, common property resources, geospatial data infrastructure, land market formation, and environmental pollution. The papers explore the political, economic, environmental, and social aspects of these issues within the context of European integration and regional development in Ukraine.

  • European Integration
  • Regional Development
  • Ukraine
  • Soil Management
  • COVID-19
  • Oligarchs
  • Common Property Resources
  • Geospatial Data Infrastructure
  • Land Market Formation
  • Environmental Pollution
Research works
3.1k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
307
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Land Use and Management

Which countries lead Land Use and Management research?

By volume, Ukraine and the United States publish the most (698 and 186 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 698 works
  2. 2 United States 186 works
  3. 3 Russia 140 works
  4. 4 Germany 38 works
  5. 5 Poland 31 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 28 works
  7. 7 ?? 23 works
  8. 8 China 18 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 13 works
  10. 10 India 12 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.

Ukraine: 58.7%United States: 15.6%Russia: 11.8%Germany: 3.2%6 others listed: 10.6%59%largest
Ukraine698 · 58.7%United States186 · 15.6%Russia140 · 11.8%Germany38 · 3.2%6 others listed126 · 10.6%

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

Which institutions lead Land Use and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Human Growth Foundation publishes the most Land Use and Management research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 102 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 63 works
  3. 3 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 41 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of UkraineUkraine 40 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 40 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 28 works
  7. 7 Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 28 works
  8. 8 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 27 works
  9. 9 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 25 works
  10. 10 Lviv UniversityUkraine 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Land Use and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Land Use and Management include Rattan Lal and Alex B. McBratney.

  1. 1 Rattan Lal United States 126k citations
  2. 2 Alex B. McBratney Australia 59k 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 Land Use and Management?

The most cited paper in Land Use and Management is "Species diversity as a task for organic agriculture in Europe" (Thomas van Elsen, 2000), with 193 citations. Next come "Landscape Ecology – towards a unified discipline?" (141) and "An overview of the global fertilizer trends and India’s position in 2020" (126).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Species diversity as a task for organic agriculture in Europe Thomas van Elsen · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2000 193
2 Landscape Ecology – towards a unified discipline? Olaf Bastian · Landscape Ecology Dec 2001 141
3 An overview of the global fertilizer trends and India’s position in 2020 Kirtikumar R. Randive, Tejashree Raut, Sanjeevani Jawadand · Mineral Economics 7 Jan 2021 126
4 Recultivation of abandoned agricultural lands in Ukraine: Patterns and drivers Аnatoliy Smaliychuk, Daniel B. Müller, Alexander V. Prishchepov et al. · Global Environmental Change 11 Mar 2016 121
5 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 17 June 1994 Philippe Sands, Paolo Galizzi · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 20 May 2004 114
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Land Use and Management research done?

The largest centres of Land Use and Management research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), New York (United States), Kharkiv (Ukraine) and Lviv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mykolayiv, Vinnytsia and Ternopil.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 236 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 103 works
  3. 3 KharkivUkraine 86 works
  4. 4 LvivUkraine 61 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 59 works
  6. 6 WeatherfordUnited States 40 works
  7. 7 VinnytsiaUkraine 36 works
  8. 8 OdesaUkraine 29 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 29 works
  10. 10 DniproUkraine 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MykolayivUA · 20.9 works156×
  2. VinnytsiaUA · 36.4 works126×
  3. TernopilUA · 20.3 works77×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Land Use and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Land Use and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Weatherford College and Vinnytsia National Agrarian 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 11.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Mykolayiv National A…National University …Vinnytsia National A…Weatherford College
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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
1National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 62.915.0%315.2×41 -40.5%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 60.69.3%25.1×40 +205.7%
3Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 54.511.9%378.2×28 +4.1%
4Mykolayiv National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 49.618.2%456.6×11 -7.7%
5Sumy National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 45.310.9%261.8×15 -6.9%
6V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 44.26.7%105.3×25 +135.0%
7National University of Water and Environmental EngineeringUkraine 43.711.1%210.2×11 +40.2%
8Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 42.17.9%57.8×18 +27.4%
9Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and GasUkraine 38.411.9%145.1×8 +98.8%
10Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 37.17.6%82.2×27 -46.4%

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 Land Use and Management, country by country

Is Land Use and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Land Use 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 Land Use and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0036% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Land Use and Management0.0071% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Land Use 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%Land Use and Management9.5% 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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