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Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 66k 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 covers a wide range of topics in wildlife ecology and conservation biology, including estimating occupancy rates, analyzing animal movement patterns, trophic cascades, habitat selection, population dynamics of large herbivores and carnivores, human-wildlife conflict, camera trapping for wildlife monitoring, and strategies for conservation management. It also explores the impact of predation risk on prey species, global biodiversity loss, and the ecological implications of human-induced stress on animal behavior.

  • Occupancy Rates
  • Animal Movement
  • Trophic Cascades
  • Habitat Selection
  • Population Dynamics
  • Human-Wildlife Conflict
  • Camera Trapping
  • Conservation Management
  • Predation Risk
  • Global Biodiversity Loss
Research works
66k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
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Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Which countries lead Wildlife Ecology and Conservation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 846 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 846 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 736 works
  4. 4 Australia 715 works
  5. 5 India 652 works
  6. 6 Canada 514 works
  7. 7 Brazil 481 works
  8. 8 Spain 413 works
  9. 9 Germany 366 works
  10. 10 France 362 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: 34.9%China: 10.8%United Kingdom: 9.4%Australia: 9.1%6 others listed: 35.7%35%largest
United States2,728 · 34.9%China846 · 10.8%United Kingdom736 · 9.4%Australia715 · 9.1%6 others listed2,789 · 35.7%

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

Which institutions lead Wildlife Ecology and Conservation research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 154 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 128 works
  3. 3 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 109 works
  4. 4 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 107 works
  5. 5 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 103 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 96 works
  7. 7 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 72 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63 works
  9. 9 Wildlife Institute of IndiaIndia 62 works
  10. 10 Leibniz AssociationGermany 59 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation include Rob Knight, George Davey Smith and Elaine R. Mardis.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
  4. 4 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  5. 5 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  6. 6 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations
  7. 7 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  8. 8 Ronald Klein United States 214k citations
  9. 9 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  10. 10 Paul Flicek United Kingdom 207k 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 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation?

The most cited paper in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation is "Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data" (Jonathan K. Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, Peter Donnelly, 2000), with 34,685 citations. Next come "Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities" (31,783) and "Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions" (18,119).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data Jonathan K. Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, Peter Donnelly · Genetics Jun 2000 34,685
2 Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities Norman Myers, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier et al. · Nature Feb 2000 31,783
3 Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson, Robert E. Schapire · Ecological Modelling 18 Jul 2005 18,119
4 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
5 Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity Lenore Fahrig · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics Review Nov 2003 7,880
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Where is Wildlife Ecology and Conservation research done?

The largest centres of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Paris (France) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 267 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 166 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 141 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 109 works
  5. 5 SydneyAustralia 106 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 102 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 99 works
  8. 8 Buenos AiresArgentina 95 works
  9. 9 Mexico CityMexico 91 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 85 works
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Where is the best place to study Wildlife Ecology and Conservation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of British Columbia and Wageningen University & Research 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 18.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Britis…University of ExeterUniversity of OxfordWageningen Universit…
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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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 76.715.1%4.2×63 -6.4%
2University of British ColumbiaCanada 71.518.8%3.9×50 -6.6%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 66.712.9%7.3×28 +25.2%
4University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 66.617.6%6.5×29 -11.6%
5University of HelsinkiFinland 63.418.0%3.7×28 +5.3%
6Swansea UniversityUnited Kingdom 63.322.9%4.5×10 +27.5%
7University of KonstanzGermany 62.824.4%6.3×9 +10.3%
8Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 62.712.1%20.7×34 -14.6%
9The University of MelbourneAustralia 62.518.2%2.7×32 -6.5%
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 61.920.9%1.5×26 +16.9%

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 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, country by country

Is Wildlife Ecology and Conservation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

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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 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.051% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Wildlife Ecology and Conservation0.049% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 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%Wildlife Ecology and Conservation9.9% 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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