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Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1953. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the measurement and evaluation of sustainable development, covering topics such as sustainability indicators, environmental sustainability, genuine progress indicator, economic growth, natural capital, weak and strong sustainability, global genuine progress, ecological economics, inclusive wealth, and sustainability assessment.

  • Sustainability Indicators
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Genuine Progress Indicator
  • Economic Growth
  • Natural Capital
  • Weak and Strong Sustainability
  • Global Genuine Progress
  • Ecological Economics
  • Inclusive Wealth
  • Sustainability Assessment
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+54%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Which countries lead Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (494 and 455 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 494 works
  2. 2 India 455 works
  3. 3 China 313 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 294 works
  5. 5 Italy 223 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 208 works
  7. 7 Brazil 195 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 171 works
  9. 9 Germany 156 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 132 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: 18.7%India: 17.2%China: 11.9%United Kingdom: 11.1%6 others listed: 41.1%19%largest
United States494 · 18.7%India455 · 17.2%China313 · 11.9%United Kingdom294 · 11.1%6 others listed1,085 · 41.1%

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

Which institutions lead Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sapienza University of Rome publishes the most Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 30 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 25 works
  4. 4 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 24 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 19 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 17 works
  7. 7 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 16 works
  8. 8 University of DelhiIndia 16 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
  10. 10 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy include David Tilman, F. Stuart Chapin and Carl Folke.

  1. 1 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  2. 2 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  3. 3 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  4. 4 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  5. 5 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  6. 6 Stephen R. Carpenter United States 165k 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 Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy?

The most cited paper in Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is "The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital" (Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot et al., 1997), with 22,491 citations. Next come "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth" (15,301) and "Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship" (13,204).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot et al. · Nature May 1997 22,491
2 A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth N. Gregory Mankiw, Daniel Römer, David Nathan Weil · The Quarterly Journal of Economics May 1992 15,301
3 Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship Michael E. Porter, Claas van der Linde · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Open access Nov 1995 13,204
4 Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet Will Steffen, Katherine Anne Koren Richardson, Johan Rockström et al. · Science Open access 15 Jan 2015 12,569
5 Human Development Report James A. Church · Journal of Government Information May 2001 9,192
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Where is Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy research done?

The largest centres of Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia) and Rome (Italy).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 75 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 71 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 61 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 60 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 47 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 46 works
  7. 7 BucharestRomania 43 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 40 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 34 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 32 works
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Where is the best place to study Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, Sapienza University of Rome, Bern University of Applied Sciences and University of Oxford 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%60%mean 20.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Bern University of A…Sapienza University …Bucharest University…University of Oxford
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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
1Sapienza University of RomeItaly 69.728.8%5.9×30 +305.7%
2Bern University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 67.556.5%29.2×10 -
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 57.08.2%4.0×25 +295.8%
4Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 51.910.8%32.0×24 +42.1%
5University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 49.838.0%3.7×9 +113.3%
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 48.111.9%3.0×16 +54.6%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 47.715.7%2.1×15 +65.7%
8Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 43.218.8%3.1×10 +38.4%
9University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 40.65.5%5.4×15 +171.0%
10Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 38.07.5%4.4×15 +154.1%

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 Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, country by country

Is Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy.

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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 Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy 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%Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy11.1% 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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