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Scientific Research and Studies

Scientific Research and Studies is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 2.3k research works in it since 1956. 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 the impacts of climate change, including adaptation strategies, sustainable development, greenhouse gas emissions, land use planning, and ecological consequences. It also explores the challenges and opportunities for urban adaptation to climate change, as well as the role of remote sensing and GIS in regional geomorphological mapping for land use planning.

  • Climate Change
  • Adaptation
  • Sustainable Development
  • Global Warming
  • Land Use Planning
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Remote Sensing
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Ecological Consequences
  • Urban Adaptation
Research works
2.3k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
230
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Scientific Research and Studies

Which countries lead Scientific Research and Studies research?

By volume, Ukraine and Russia publish the most (535 and 142 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 535 works
  2. 2 Russia 142 works
  3. 3 United States 81 works
  4. 4 China 19 works
  5. 5 Germany 14 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 12 works
  7. 7 Poland 12 works
  8. 8 ?? 11 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 11 works
  10. 10 Azerbaijan 9 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: 63.3%Russia: 16.8%United States: 9.5%China: 2.2%6 others listed: 8.2%63%largest
Ukraine535 · 63.3%Russia142 · 16.8%United States81 · 9.5%China19 · 2.2%6 others listed69 · 8.2%

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

Which institutions lead Scientific Research and Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine publishes the most Scientific Research and Studies research, followed by Weatherford College and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 62 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 41 works
  3. 3 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 37 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 31 works
  5. 5 Lviv UniversityUkraine 18 works
  6. 6 Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 17 works
  7. 7 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 17 works
  8. 8 O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in KharkivUkraine 17 works
  9. 9 V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 15 works
  10. 10 Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies LvivUkraine 15 works

What are the most cited papers in Scientific Research and Studies?

The most cited paper in Scientific Research and Studies is "Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK" (Harriet Bulkeley, Kristine Kern, 2006), with 709 citations. Next come "SPREAD OF ANALGESIC SOLUTIONS IN THE EPIDURAL SPACE AND THEIR SITE OF ACTION: A STATISTICAL STUDY" (197) and "Efficacy of Crizotinib among Different Types of ROS1 Fusion Partners in Patients with ROS1-Rearranged Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer" (122).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK Harriet Bulkeley, Kristine Kern · Urban Studies Nov 2006 709
2 SPREAD OF ANALGESIC SOLUTIONS IN THE EPIDURAL SPACE AND THEIR SITE OF ACTION: A STATISTICAL STUDY Philip R. Bromage · British Journal of Anaesthesia Open access Mar 1962 197
3 Efficacy of Crizotinib among Different Types of ROS1 Fusion Partners in Patients with ROS1-Rearranged Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Ziming Li, Lan Shen, Ding Ding et al. · Journal of Thoracic Oncology Open access 25 Apr 2018 122
4 Clinacanthus nutansExtracts Are Antioxidant with Antiproliferative Effect on Cultured Human Cancer Cell Lines Yoke Keong Yong, Jun Jie Tan, Soek Sin Teh et al. · Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Open access 2013 106
5 Heavy metals effect on breast cancer progression Anatolii Mykolaiovych Romaniuk, Mykola Lyndіn, Vladyslav Sikora et al. · Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology Open access 28 Nov 2017 96
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Scientific Research and Studies research done?

The largest centres of Scientific Research and Studies research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Lviv (Ukraine), Kharkiv (Ukraine) and Weatherford (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lviv, Poltava and Dnipro.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 172 works
  2. 2 LvivUkraine 82 works
  3. 3 KharkivUkraine 57 works
  4. 4 WeatherfordUnited States 41 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 39 works
  6. 6 DniproUkraine 22 works
  7. 7 PoltavaUkraine 21 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 ZaporizhiaUkraine 17 works
  10. 10 OdesaUkraine 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LvivUA · 81.8 works129×
  2. PoltavaUA · 20.9 works121×
  3. DniproUA · 22.4 works74×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Scientific Research and Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Scientific Research and Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies Lviv and V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National 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%30%mean 11.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stepan Gzhytskyi Nat…V. N. Karazin Kharki…Weatherford CollegeTaras Shevchenko Nat…
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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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 59.19.3%37.4×41 +218.1%
2Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies LvivUkraine 51.427.2%551.3×15 -40.4%
3V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 49.720.1%93.7×15 +44.5%
4Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 42.84.1%164.1×37 -42.6%
5O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in KharkivUkraine 36.57.6%338.8×17 +111.5%
6Adyghe State UniversityRussia 35.920.1%594.9×10 -
7National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of UkraineUkraine 34.911.5%134.8×12 -25.1%
8Lviv UniversityUkraine 31.26.7%177.1×18 -7.3%
9Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 28.65.7%81.0×17 -26.0%
10Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National UniversityUkraine 27.25.2%172.8×13 +13.7%

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 Scientific Research and Studies, country by country

Is Scientific Research and Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Scientific Research and Studies.

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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 Scientific Research and Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0021% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Scientific Research and Studies0.0046% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Scientific Research and Studies 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%Scientific Research and Studies9.6% in 20252020

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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