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Mining and Resource Management

Mining and Resource Management is a research topic within Building and Construction. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 intersection of mining activities, sustainable development, and social responsibility. It explores topics such as the environmental impact of mining, community relations, artisanal mining, corporate social responsibility, resource conflicts, and the role of indigenous participation in the mining industry.

  • Sustainable Development
  • Mining Industry
  • Social License to Operate
  • Environmental Impact
  • Community Relations
  • Artisanal Mining
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Resource Conflict
  • Indigenous Participation
  • Globalization
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mining and Resource Management

Which countries lead Mining and Resource Management research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (553 and 487 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 553 works
  2. 2 United States 487 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 356 works
  4. 4 Australia 316 works
  5. 5 Canada 280 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 277 works
  7. 7 Brazil 197 works
  8. 8 South Africa 169 works
  9. 9 France 154 works
  10. 10 India 145 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.

China: 18.8%United States: 16.6%Indonesia: 12.1%Australia: 10.8%6 others listed: 41.7%19%largest
China553 · 18.8%United States487 · 16.6%Indonesia356 · 12.1%Australia316 · 10.8%6 others listed1,222 · 41.7%

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

Which institutions lead Mining and Resource Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Mining and Resource Management research, followed by The University of Queensland and China University of Mining and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 54 works
  2. 2 The University of QueenslandAustralia 49 works
  3. 3 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 36 works
  4. 4 University of British ColumbiaCanada 24 works
  5. 5 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 23 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  7. 7 University of GhanaGhana 21 works
  8. 8 Australian National UniversityAustralia 21 works
  9. 9 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 20 works
  10. 10 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mining and Resource Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mining and Resource Management include Элинор Остром.

  1. 1 Элинор Остром United States 149k 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 Mining and Resource Management?

The most cited paper in Mining and Resource Management is "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment" (Robert D. Benford, David A. Snow, 2000), with 9,915 citations. Next come "Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation" (2,922) and "A review of soil heavy metal pollution from mines in China: Pollution and health risk assessment" (2,880).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment Robert D. Benford, David A. Snow · Annual Review of Sociology Review Aug 2000 9,915
2 Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation Arun Agrawal, Clark C. Gibson · World Development Open access Apr 1999 2,922
3 A review of soil heavy metal pollution from mines in China: Pollution and health risk assessment Zhiyuan Li, Zongwei Ma, Tsering Jan van der Kuijp et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 25 Sep 2013 2,880
4 A Theory of Access* Jesse Ribot, Nancy Lee Peluso · Rural Sociology Jun 2003 2,312
5 Acid mine drainage remediation options: a review David Barrie Johnson, Kevin B. Hallberg · The Science of The Total Environment 28 Oct 2004 2,196
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mining and Resource Management research done?

The largest centres of Mining and Resource Management research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Brisbane (Australia), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kumasi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 127 works
  2. 2 BrisbaneAustralia 69 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 57 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 49 works
  5. 5 SydneyAustralia 45 works
  6. 6 JakartaIndonesia 45 works
  7. 7 JohannesburgSouth Africa 45 works
  8. 8 CanberraAustralia 41 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 41 works
  10. 10 AccraGhana 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KumasiGH · 25.8 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Mining and Resource Management?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Queensland, China University of Mining and Technology and China University of Geosciences 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%20%40%mean 19.98%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China University of …Central South Univer…The University of Qu…China University of …
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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
1The University of QueenslandAustralia 82.723.1%12.2×49 +3.3%
2China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 73.119.8%10.9×36 +38.9%
3China University of GeosciencesChina 64.228.7%6.3×12 +55.6%
4Central South UniversityChina 62.624.2%2.1×17 +160.4%
5Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 62.421.7%3.6×10 +10.1%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 60.323.9%2.3×14 +27.0%
7Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 59.19.7%25.6×23 +32.3%
8University of HelsinkiFinland 56.122.9%4.0×12 +38.4%
9University of GhanaGhana 54.56.7%20.1×21 +57.7%
10University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 52.319.1%5.3×9 +40.4%

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 Mining and Resource Management, country by country

Is Mining and Resource Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mining and Resource 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 Mining and Resource Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Mining and Resource Management0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mining and Resource 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%Mining and Resource Management10.7% 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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