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Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics

Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 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 policy and management in Mexico, including water management, sustainability, biodiversity conservation, community participation, climate change, resource governance, urban development, cultural heritage, and public health. The papers reflect a multidisciplinary approach to addressing environmental challenges and promoting sustainable development in the Mexican context.

  • Environmental Policy
  • Water Management
  • Sustainability
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Community Participation
  • Climate Change
  • Resource Governance
  • Urban Development
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Public Health
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
74% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics

Which countries lead Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics research?

By volume, Mexico and Spain publish the most (1.4k and 160 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 1.4k works
  2. 2 Spain 160 works
  3. 3 United States 90 works
  4. 4 Argentina 67 works
  5. 5 Colombia 43 works
  6. 6 Costa Rica 39 works
  7. 7 France 33 works
  8. 8 Chile 30 works
  9. 9 Brazil 28 works
  10. 10 Peru 18 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.

Mexico: 73.6%Spain: 8.3%United States: 4.7%Argentina: 3.5%6 others listed: 10.0%74%largest
Mexico1,412 · 73.6%Spain160 · 8.3%United States90 · 4.7%Argentina67 · 3.5%6 others listed191 · 10.0%

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

Which institutions lead Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México publishes the most Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics research, followed by Universidad Veracruzana and Universidad de Guadalajara.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 210 works
  2. 2 Universidad VeracruzanaMexico 72 works
  3. 3 Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 70 works
  4. 4 El Colegio de MéxicoMexico 58 works
  5. 5 Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico 53 works
  6. 6 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 46 works
  7. 7 Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de HidalgoMexico 45 works
  8. 8 Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de PueblaMexico 42 works
  9. 9 National Institute of Anthropology and HistoryMexico 39 works
  10. 10 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics include John C. Reed and Charles Michael Gibson.

  1. 1 John C. Reed United States 135k citations
  2. 2 Charles Michael Gibson United States 65k 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 Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics is "Los tipos de vegetación de México y su clasificación" (Faustino Miranda, Efraim Hernández-X., 1963), with 535 citations. Next come "Garcia Canclini N. Culturas híbridas. Estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad. México, GRIJALBO-CONACULTA, 1990" (493) and "Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico1" (468).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Los tipos de vegetación de México y su clasificación Faustino Miranda, Efraim Hernández-X. · Botanical Sciences Open access 15 Sep 1963 535
2 Garcia Canclini N. Culturas híbridas. Estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad. México, GRIJALBO-CONACULTA, 1990 Raúl Nieto Calleja · Alteridades Open access 1991 493
3 Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico1 Eric R. Wolf · American Anthropologist Dec 1956 468
4 Ecology and Ritual: Water Management and the Maya Vernon L. Scarborough · Latin American Antiquity Jun 1998 212
5 Revista Mexicana de Fisica J. Dí­az-Reyes, M. Galván-Arellano, Ramón Peña-Sierra et al. · conference Conference paper 2007 188
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Where is Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Xalapa (Mexico), Guadalajara (Mexico) and Madrid (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tlalpan, Ciudad Juárez and Tuxtla Gutiérrez.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 457 works
  2. 2 XalapaMexico 90 works
  3. 3 GuadalajaraMexico 78 works
  4. 4 MadridSpain 70 works
  5. 5 TlalpanMexico 59 works
  6. 6 Puebla CityMexico 51 works
  7. 7 TolucaMexico 50 works
  8. 8 MoreliaMexico 47 works
  9. 9 PachucaMexico 38 works
  10. 10 San Nicolás de los GarzaMexico 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TlalpanMX · 59.2 works275×
  2. Ciudad JuárezMX · 23.8 works185×
  3. Tuxtla GutiérrezMX · 20.9 works176×
  4. Zacatecas CityMX · 27.4 works172×
  5. AguascalientesMX · 21.7 works166×
  6. CuliacánMX · 28.5 works150×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Colegio de Postgraduados and Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa score highest, combining citation 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 15.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Autonomous Universit…Universidad Autónoma…Colegio de Postgradu…Universidad Nacional…
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

Citation 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
1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 61.612.2%121.1×210 -23.0%
2Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 60.414.6%153.3×36 +3.5%
3Universidad Autónoma de SinaloaMexico 60.117.7%195.0×28 +129.7%
4Autonomous University of YucatánMexico 58.231.9%126.8×13 -27.1%
5Instituto Politécnico NacionalMexico 54.215.7%38.6×23 +4.9%
6Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de HidalgoMexico 53.013.3%196.4×45 +38.3%
7Universidad Autónoma de GuerreroMexico 51.314.0%182.1×18 +24.3%
8Autonomous University of San Luis PotosíMexico 47.816.0%90.1×15 -11.0%
9Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico 47.510.2%175.1×46 +1.2%
10Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo LeónMexico 47.47.0%92.5×34 +72.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics, country by country

Is Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0081% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics0.0076% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics 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%Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics10.1% 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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