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Water and Land Management

Water and Land Management is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 7.2k research works in it since 1970. 9.8% 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 environmental conservation and sustainable development, including soil health, garbage enzyme, zeolites, land reclamation, water management, erosion control, biodiversity, and climate change. The papers explore various aspects of environmental protection and resource management.

  • Environmental Conservation
  • Sustainable Development
  • Soil Health
  • Garbage Enzyme
  • Zeolites
  • Land Reclamation
  • Water Management
  • Erosion Control
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
Research works
7.2k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
707
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+73%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
95% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Water and Land Management

Which countries lead Water and Land Management research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (3.8k and 85 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 3.8k works
  2. 2 ?? 85 works
  3. 3 United States 30 works
  4. 4 Canada 28 works
  5. 5 Malaysia 20 works
  6. 6 Russia 14 works
  7. 7 India 11 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 11 works
  9. 9 Japan 10 works
  10. 10 Hungary 7 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.

Indonesia: 94.6%??: 2.1%United States: 0.8%Canada: 0.7%6 others listed: 1.8%95%largest
Indonesia3,769 · 94.6%??85 · 2.1%United States30 · 0.8%Canada28 · 0.7%6 others listed73 · 1.8%

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

Which institutions lead Water and Land Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Brawijaya publishes the most Water and Land Management research, followed by Universitas Gadjah Mada and Lambung Mangkurat University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 147 works
  2. 2 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 92 works
  3. 3 Lambung Mangkurat UniversityIndonesia 78 works
  4. 4 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 76 works
  5. 5 Lampung UniversityIndonesia 73 works
  6. 6 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 62 works
  7. 7 Tanjungpura UniversityIndonesia 61 works
  8. 8 University of MataramIndonesia 59 works
  9. 9 Sriwijaya UniversityIndonesia 58 works
  10. 10 State University of MalangIndonesia 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Water and Land Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Water and Land Management include Alexander Knohl, Meine van Noordwijk and Daniel Murdiyarso.

  1. 1 Alexander Knohl Germany 30k citations
  2. 2 Meine van Noordwijk Indonesia 29k citations
  3. 3 Daniel Murdiyarso Indonesia 23k citations
  4. 4 Mark A. Cochrane United States 23k 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 Water and Land Management?

The most cited paper in Water and Land Management is "Ecohydrology — the scientific background to use ecosystem properties as management tools toward sustainability of water resources" (Maciej Zalewski, 2000), with 347 citations. Next come "The Effect of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Flood Occurrence in Teunom Watershed, Aceh Jaya" (155) and "Urbanization and Increasing Flood Risk in the Northern Coast of Central Java—Indonesia: An Assessment towards Better Land Use Policy and Flood Management" (129).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ecohydrology — the scientific background to use ecosystem properties as management tools toward sustainability of water resources Maciej Zalewski · Ecological Engineering Oct 2000 347
2 The Effect of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Flood Occurrence in Teunom Watershed, Aceh Jaya Sugianto Sugianto, Anwar Deli, Edy Miswar et al. · Land Open access 8 Aug 2022 155
3 Urbanization and Increasing Flood Risk in the Northern Coast of Central Java—Indonesia: An Assessment towards Better Land Use Policy and Flood Management Wiwandari Handayani, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Iwan Rudiarto et al. · Land Open access 23 Sep 2020 129
4 Watershed management strategies for flood mitigation: A case study of Jakarta's flooding Chay Asdak, Sudradjat Supian, Subiyanto Subiyanto · Weather and Climate Extremes Open access 18 Aug 2018 112
5 Analisis Penyebab Kejadian dan Evaluasi Bencana Tanah Longsor di Desa Banaran, Kecamatan Pulung, Kabupaten Ponorogo, Provinsi Jawa Timur Tanggal 1 April 2017 Heru Sri Naryanto, Hasmana Soewandita, Deliyanti Ganesha et al. · Jurnal Ilmu Lingkungan Open access 9 Sep 2019 73
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Water and Land Management research done?

The largest centres of Water and Land Management research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Malang (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Semarang (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sleman, Balikpapan and Banjarmasin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 290 works
  2. 2 MalangIndonesia 257 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 214 works
  4. 4 SemarangIndonesia 190 works
  5. 5 YogyakartaIndonesia 176 works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 175 works
  7. 7 MakassarIndonesia 163 works
  8. 8 Bandar LampungIndonesia 136 works
  9. 9 PadangIndonesia 120 works
  10. 10 MedanIndonesia 107 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SlemanID · 69.6 works50×
  2. BalikpapanID · 34.6 works50×
  3. BanjarmasinID · 87.8 works39×
  4. SamarindaID · 65.2 works33×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Water and Land Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Water and Land Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Bandung Institute of Technology, University of Brawijaya and IPB 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 17.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →IPB UniversityBandung Institute of…Universitas Gadjah M…University of Brawij…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 82.220.3%24.8×56 +73.2%
2University of BrawijayaIndonesia 77.912.4%49.5×147 +135.4%
3IPB UniversityIndonesia 73.121.7%23.8×46 -22.6%
4Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 73.013.2%28.2×92 +8.5%
5University of PattimuraIndonesia 70.017.5%29.6×38 +425.6%
6University of IndonesiaIndonesia 69.625.9%8.8×35 -37.7%
7Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 67.121.7%25.8×11 +347.8%
8Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 66.516.4%28.2×76 -18.3%
9Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 66.213.9%30.2×43 +32.0%
10Universitas JemberIndonesia 63.213.2%25.3×49 +34.1%

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 Water and Land Management, country by country

Is Water and Land Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 73% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Water and Land 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 Water and Land Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Water and Land Management0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Water and Land 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%Water and Land Management9.8% 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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