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Oil Palm Production and Sustainability

Oil Palm Production and Sustainability is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of oil palm expansion on biodiversity, tropical agriculture, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions. It delves into the environmental and social consequences, sustainability certification, and the livelihood impacts on smallholder farmers. The research also addresses land use changes, conservation efforts, and the potential for sustainable oil palm production.

  • Oil Palm Expansion
  • Biodiversity
  • Tropical Agriculture
  • Deforestation
  • Sustainability Certification
  • Smallholder Farmers
  • Environmental Impact
  • Land Use Change
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Conservation
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
70% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Oil Palm Production and Sustainability

Which countries lead Oil Palm Production and Sustainability research?

By volume, Indonesia and Malaysia publish the most (2.6k and 397 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 2.6k works
  2. 2 Malaysia 397 works
  3. 3 India 124 works
  4. 4 China 113 works
  5. 5 Nigeria 110 works
  6. 6 United States 110 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 64 works
  8. 8 Brazil 63 works
  9. 9 ?? 57 works
  10. 10 Thailand 57 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.

Indonesia: 70.1%Malaysia: 10.9%India: 3.4%China: 3.1%6 others listed: 12.6%70%largest
Indonesia2,561 · 70.1%Malaysia397 · 10.9%India124 · 3.4%China113 · 3.1%6 others listed460 · 12.6%

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

Which institutions lead Oil Palm Production and Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022-now, IPB University publishes the most Oil Palm Production and Sustainability research, followed by Riau University and Jambi University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IPB UniversityIndonesia 161 works
  2. 2 Riau UniversityIndonesia 86 works
  3. 3 Jambi UniversityIndonesia 78 works
  4. 4 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 62 works
  5. 5 Tanjungpura UniversityIndonesia 62 works
  6. 6 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 61 works
  7. 7 Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 58 works
  8. 8 Andalas UniversityIndonesia 56 works
  9. 9 National Research and Innovation AgencyIndonesia 56 works
  10. 10 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Oil Palm Production and Sustainability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Oil Palm Production and Sustainability include Philippe Ciais, Sanjay Basu and Josep Peñuelas.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Sanjay Basu United States 193k citations
  3. 3 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  4. 4 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  5. 5 Pete Smith United Kingdom 121k 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 Oil Palm Production and Sustainability?

The most cited paper in Oil Palm Production and Sustainability is "Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics" (Daniel C. Donato, J. Boone Kauffman, Daniel Murdiyarso et al., 2011), with 3,410 citations. Next come "Present state and future of the world's mangrove forests" (2,045) and "Carbon Cycling and Storage in Mangrove Forests" (1,934).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics Daniel C. Donato, J. Boone Kauffman, Daniel Murdiyarso et al. · Nature Geoscience Open access 3 Apr 2011 3,410
2 Present state and future of the world's mangrove forests Daniel M. Alongi · Environmental Conservation Sep 2002 2,045
3 Carbon Cycling and Storage in Mangrove Forests Daniel M. Alongi · Annual Review of Marine Science Review 3 Jan 2014 1,934
4 Mangrove Forests: One of the World's Threatened Major Tropical Environments Iván Valiela, Jennifer L. Bowen, Joanna K. York · BioScience Open access 2001 1,805
5 Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature William Frederick Laurance, Jeffrey A. Sayer, Kenneth G. Cassman · Trends in Ecology & Evolution Review 3 Jan 2014 1,538
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Where is Oil Palm Production and Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Oil Palm Production and Sustainability research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Medan (Indonesia), Bogor (Indonesia) and Pekanbaru (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Meulaboh, Sleman and Jambi City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 248 works
  2. 2 MedanIndonesia 246 works
  3. 3 BogorIndonesia 197 works
  4. 4 PekanbaruIndonesia 137 works
  5. 5 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 125 works
  6. 6 PadangIndonesia 102 works
  7. 7 BandungIndonesia 100 works
  8. 8 YogyakartaIndonesia 94 works
  9. 9 Jambi CityIndonesia 92 works
  10. 10 DepokIndonesia 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MeulabohID · 23.9 works46×
  2. SlemanID · 60.7 works40×
  3. Jambi CityID · 91.6 works30×
  4. Seri KembanganMY · 61.4 works30×
  5. BogorID · 196.8 works29×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Oil Palm Production and Sustainability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Oil Palm Production and Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia and University of Göttingen 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%60%mean 17.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…University of Göttin…Universiti Sains Mal…Universiti Putra Mal…
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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.

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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 60.048.4%7.4×10 -26.5%
2Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 56.716.9%32.3×62 +5.1%
3University of GöttingenGermany 54.137.1%7.4×10 -43.4%
4Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 50.524.5%6.0×14 +28.6%
5IPB UniversityIndonesia 48.46.5%76.7×161 -14.2%
6University of IndonesiaIndonesia 47.86.6%13.9×61 +49.8%
7Riau UniversityIndonesia 47.63.8%42.8×86 +26.6%
8Jambi UniversityIndonesia 46.12.9%31.1×78 +41.6%
9Binus UniversityIndonesia 44.514.7%10.7×22 +165.5%
10Universiti Malaysia TerengganuMalaysia 43.818.3%17.4×9 +57.1%

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 Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, country by country

Is Oil Palm Production and Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Oil Palm Production and Sustainability.

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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 Oil Palm Production and Sustainability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Oil Palm Production and Sustainability0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Oil Palm Production and Sustainability 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%Oil Palm Production and Sustainability10.1% 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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