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Species Distribution and Climate Change

Species Distribution and Climate Change is a research topic within Ecological Modeling. Science Explorer counts 54k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on species distribution modeling in the context of climate change impacts, utilizing methods such as MaxEnt and ecological niche modeling. It explores the effects of climate change on biodiversity, habitat suitability, range shifts, and conservation efforts. Additionally, it highlights the role of citizen science in ecological research.

  • Species Distribution Modeling
  • Climate Change
  • Ecological Niche
  • MaxEnt
  • Biodiversity
  • Citizen Science
  • Habitat Suitability
  • Model Evaluation
  • Range Shifts
  • Conservation Biology
Research works
54k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Species Distribution and Climate Change

Which countries lead Species Distribution and Climate Change research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.8k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.8k works
  2. 2 China 1.8k works
  3. 3 India 730 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 712 works
  5. 5 Australia 654 works
  6. 6 Brazil 607 works
  7. 7 Germany 606 works
  8. 8 France 481 works
  9. 9 Spain 475 works
  10. 10 Canada 443 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: 29.9%China: 19.1%India: 7.9%United Kingdom: 7.7%6 others listed: 35.3%30%largest
United States2,765 · 29.9%China1,766 · 19.1%India730 · 7.9%United Kingdom712 · 7.7%6 others listed3,264 · 35.3%

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

Which institutions lead Species Distribution and Climate Change research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Species Distribution and Climate Change research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 278 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 199 works
  3. 3 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 123 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 106 works
  5. 5 Leibniz AssociationGermany 91 works
  6. 6 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 83 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 81 works
  8. 8 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 78 works
  9. 9 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 70 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 67 works

Who are the leading researchers in Species Distribution and Climate Change?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Species Distribution and Climate Change include Yoshua Bengio, Rob Knight and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  5. 5 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  8. 8 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  9. 9 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k 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 Species Distribution and Climate Change?

The most cited paper in Species Distribution and Climate Change is "Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities" (Norman Myers, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier et al., 2000), with 31,783 citations. Next come "Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions" (18,119) and "Red and photographic infrared linear combinations for monitoring vegetation" (11,851).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities Norman Myers, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier et al. · Nature Feb 2000 31,783
2 Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson, Robert E. Schapire · Ecological Modelling 18 Jul 2005 18,119
3 Red and photographic infrared linear combinations for monitoring vegetation Compton J. Tucker · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access May 1979 11,851
4 A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems Camille Parmesan, Gary Yohe · Nature 2003 11,364
5 Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance Carsten F. Dormann, Jane Elith, Sven Bacher et al. · Ecography Open access 18 May 2012 11,040
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Where is Species Distribution and Climate Change research done?

The largest centres of Species Distribution and Climate Change research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Washington D.C. (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Birmensdorf and Tongren.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 532 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 192 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 153 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 144 works
  5. 5 Mexico CityMexico 122 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 112 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 105 works
  8. 8 CanberraAustralia 96 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 95 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 95 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BirmensdorfCH · 22.5 works48×
  2. TongrenCN · 21.6 works46×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Species Distribution and Climate Change than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Species Distribution and Climate Change?

Among universities, judged by research, Peking University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and University of British Columbia 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%10%20%30%mean 18.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Peking UniversityFriedrich Schiller U…University of Britis…University of Exeter
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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
1Peking UniversityChina 70.427.9%0.9×23 +64.3%
2Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 69.321.0%7.9×31 -8.6%
3University of British ColumbiaCanada 69.117.6%3.3×49 +2.6%
4University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 68.717.5%5.1×27 +7.9%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 67.316.2%2.7×54 +37.7%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 66.112.1%2.5×44 +11.0%
7ETH ZurichSwitzerland 65.318.7%2.8×24 +6.5%
8Beijing Normal UniversityChina 65.215.8%3.6×35 +78.9%
9Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 64.414.5%5.5×24 +20.5%
10Yale UniversityUnited States 64.319.2%1.8×24 +50.7%

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 Species Distribution and Climate Change, country by country

Is Species Distribution and Climate Change research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Species Distribution and Climate Change.

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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 Species Distribution and Climate Change as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.054% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Species Distribution and Climate Change0.057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Species Distribution and Climate Change 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%Species Distribution and Climate Change9.8% 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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