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Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies

Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 4.5k research works in it since 1960. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study and management of urban greenery, including arborization, green areas, and public spaces. It encompasses topics such as urban forestry, biodiversity conservation, community perception of green spaces, and sustainable urban planning. The papers also cover floristic analysis and geospatial mapping to assess the environmental quality of urban areas.

  • Arborization
  • Urban Forestry
  • Green Areas
  • Public Spaces
  • Environmental Quality
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Community Perception
  • Sustainable Urban Planning
  • Floristic Analysis
  • Geospatial Mapping
Research works
4.5k
fractional, since 1960
In the world top 10%
442
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
86% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies

Which countries lead Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 97 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 97 works
  3. 3 Portugal 40 works
  4. 4 Spain 30 works
  5. 5 China 17 works
  6. 6 ?? 17 works
  7. 7 Mexico 15 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 11 works
  9. 9 France 11 works
  10. 10 Italy 8 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.

Brazil: 85.6%United States: 5.7%Portugal: 2.3%Spain: 1.8%6 others listed: 4.7%86%largest
Brazil1,460 · 85.6%United States97 · 5.7%Portugal40 · 2.3%Spain30 · 1.8%6 others listed80 · 4.7%

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

Which institutions lead Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade de Brasília.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 45 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 45 works
  3. 3 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 39 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 39 works
  5. 5 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 31 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 28 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 25 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 24 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 24 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies include Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva.

  1. 1 Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva Brazil 44k 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 Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies?

The most cited paper in Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies is "Benefits and costs of street trees in Lisbon, Portugal" (Ana Luísa Soares, Francisco Castro Rego, E. Gregory McPherson et al., 2011), with 264 citations. Next come "Óleos essenciais no Brasil: aspectos gerais, desenvolvimento e perspectivas" (223) and "A comparative study of cerrado (sensu stricto) vegetation in Central Brazil" (142).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Benefits and costs of street trees in Lisbon, Portugal Ana Luísa Soares, Francisco Castro Rego, E. Gregory McPherson et al. · Urban forestry & urban greening Open access 2011 264
2 Óleos essenciais no Brasil: aspectos gerais, desenvolvimento e perspectivas H. R. Bizzo, Ana Maria C. Hovell, Cláudia M. Rezende · Química Nova Open access 2009 223
3 A comparative study of cerrado (sensu stricto) vegetation in Central Brazil Jeanine Maria Felfili, Manoel Cláudio da Silva · Journal of Tropical Ecology Aug 1993 142
4 Stewardship matters: Case studies in establishment success of urban trees Lara A. Roman, Lindsey A. Walker, Catherine M. Martineau et al. · Urban forestry & urban greening Open access 2015 122
5 Participatory democracy and sustainable development: integrated urban environmental management in Porto Alegre, Brazil Rualdo Menegat · Environment and Urbanization Oct 2002 111
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Where is Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies research done?

The largest centres of Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Recife (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cuiabá and Campo Grande.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 214 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 131 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 68 works
  4. 4 RecifeBrazil 58 works
  5. 5 CuritibaBrazil 53 works
  6. 6 FlorianópolisBrazil 48 works
  7. 7 Belo HorizonteBrazil 47 works
  8. 8 BelémBrazil 42 works
  9. 9 CampinasBrazil 32 works
  10. 10 ManausBrazil 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CuiabáBR · 21.9 works50×
  2. Campo GrandeBR · 22.5 works45×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria and Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 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%mean 13.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade Estadua…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 62.39.5%14.6×45 +58.2%
2Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 58.713.0%43.3×28 +29.8%
3Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 57.013.4%24.7×31 +15.1%
4Universidade Federal de PelotasBrazil 54.316.6%52.4×20 +64.3%
5Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-ÁridoBrazil 54.123.0%72.0×10 +20.8%
6Universidade de PernambucoBrazil 52.723.7%59.0×13 +17.0%
7Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 50.47.8%37.8×44 +84.6%
8Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 49.713.2%31.6×24 +32.8%
9Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 47.411.8%30.6×24 -22.0%
10Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 45.34.9%44.6×39 +24.6%

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 Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies, country by country

Is Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Urban Arborization and Environmental 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 Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0043% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Urban Arborization and Environmental 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%Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies9.4% in 202520102020

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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