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Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Rangeland and Wildlife Management is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the factors influencing the resilience, conservation, and management of sagebrush ecosystems, with a particular emphasis on the impact of invasive species, wildlife habitat preservation, fire ecology, and the effects of climate change. It addresses the challenges and strategies for maintaining biodiversity and ecological balance in sagebrush landscapes.

  • Sagebrush
  • Ecosystem
  • Conservation
  • Invasive Species
  • Wildlife Habitat
  • Fire
  • Resilience
  • Biodiversity
  • Grazing
  • Climate Change
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Which countries lead Rangeland and Wildlife Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 310 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 310 works
  3. 3 Australia 230 works
  4. 4 Canada 178 works
  5. 5 India 104 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 82 works
  7. 7 Spain 69 works
  8. 8 South Africa 68 works
  9. 9 Germany 63 works
  10. 10 ?? 56 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: 58.6%China: 11.0%Australia: 8.2%Canada: 6.4%6 others listed: 15.8%59%largest
United States1,646 · 58.6%China310 · 11.0%Australia230 · 8.2%Canada178 · 6.4%6 others listed443 · 15.8%

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

Which institutions lead Rangeland and Wildlife Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Agriculture publishes the most Rangeland and Wildlife Management research, followed by United States Geological Survey and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 147 works
  2. 2 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 85 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 57 works
  4. 4 University of FloridaUnited States 29 works
  5. 5 Oregon State UniversityUnited States 29 works
  6. 6 Colorado State UniversityUnited States 25 works
  7. 7 Utah State UniversityUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 United States Fish and Wildlife ServiceUnited States 22 works
  9. 9 University of WyomingUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 University of MontanaUnited States 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Rangeland and Wildlife Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Rangeland and Wildlife Management include Rob Knight, Mark A. Bradford and Philippe Ciais.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  4. 4 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  5. 5 Steven J.M. Jones Canada 200k citations
  6. 6 Ronald M. Evans United States 192k citations
  7. 7 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  8. 8 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k 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 Rangeland and Wildlife Management?

The most cited paper in Rangeland and Wildlife Management is "VEGAN, a package of R functions for community ecology" (Philip M. Dixon, 2003), with 7,096 citations. Next come "RANDOM FORESTS FOR CLASSIFICATION IN ECOLOGY" (4,967) and "Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference" (4,131).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 VEGAN, a package of R functions for community ecology Philip M. Dixon · Journal of Vegetation Science 9 Apr 2003 7,096
2 RANDOM FORESTS FOR CLASSIFICATION IN ECOLOGY D. Richard Cutler, Thomas C. Edwards, Karen H. Beard et al. · Ecology Nov 2007 4,967
3 Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference Miquel De Cáceres, Pierre Legendre · Ecology Dec 2009 4,131
4 Fire in the Earth System David M. J. S. Bowman et al. · Science 23 Apr 2009 3,400
5 Detrended Correspondence Analysis: An Improved Ordination Technique M. O. Hill, Hugh G. Gauch Book chapter 1980 3,364
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Where is Rangeland and Wildlife Management research done?

The largest centres of Rangeland and Wildlife Management research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), Beijing (China), Reston (United States) and Fort Collins (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Reston, Missoula and Laramie.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 136 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 96 works
  3. 3 RestonUnited States 56 works
  4. 4 Fort CollinsUnited States 48 works
  5. 5 CanberraAustralia 32 works
  6. 6 MadisonUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 31 works
  8. 8 CorvallisUnited States 30 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 30 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RestonUS · 55.9 works72×
  2. MissoulaUS · 21.0 works58×
  3. LaramieUS · 21.3 works47×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Rangeland and Wildlife Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Rangeland and Wildlife Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Washington, Oregon State University and University of Montana 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 15.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Washin…University of MontanaOregon State Univers…Colorado State Unive…
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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
1University of WashingtonUnited States 58.735.0%3.4×12 -8.5%
2Oregon State UniversityUnited States 58.011.7%33.0×29 -21.3%
3University of MontanaUnited States 56.812.7%75.6×21 -13.6%
4Colorado State UniversityUnited States 54.29.3%23.9×25 -28.5%
5University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 53.816.0%5.1×14 +13.2%
6University of FloridaUnited States 51.46.9%9.0×29 -8.6%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 50.521.5%2.5×12 +70.2%
8The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 50.116.2%7.7×10 +5.9%
9New Mexico State UniversityUnited States 49.47.1%54.2×18 +18.2%
10University of TasmaniaAustralia 48.713.8%15.3×11 +29.5%

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 Rangeland and Wildlife Management, country by country

Is Rangeland and Wildlife Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Rangeland and Wildlife 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 Rangeland and Wildlife Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Rangeland and Wildlife Management0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Rangeland and Wildlife 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%Rangeland and Wildlife Management10.3% 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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