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Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation

Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the ecological effects of roads on wildlife, including habitat connectivity, wildlife mortality, landscape fragmentation, and conservation planning. It explores the use of graph theory and spatial analysis to understand population connectivity, assess environmental impact, and develop mitigation measures to reduce the negative effects of roads on wildlife populations.

  • Road Ecology
  • Habitat Connectivity
  • Wildlife Mortality
  • Landscape Fragmentation
  • Conservation Planning
  • Graph Theory
  • Mitigation Measures
  • Population Connectivity
  • Spatial Patterns
  • Environmental Impact
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation

Which countries lead Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (940 and 575 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 940 works
  2. 2 United States 575 works
  3. 3 India 337 works
  4. 4 Brazil 276 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 156 works
  6. 6 Australia 134 works
  7. 7 Spain 119 works
  8. 8 Canada 114 works
  9. 9 Germany 98 works
  10. 10 France 88 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.

China: 33.1%United States: 20.3%India: 11.9%Brazil: 9.7%6 others listed: 25.0%33%largest
China940 · 33.1%United States575 · 20.3%India337 · 11.9%Brazil276 · 9.7%6 others listed709 · 25.0%

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

Which institutions lead Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 77 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
  3. 3 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 28 works
  4. 4 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 23 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina 22 works
  6. 6 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 21 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 20 works
  8. 8 Wildlife Institute of IndiaIndia 17 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 17 works
  10. 10 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation include Josep Peñuelas, Carlos Manuel Duarte and James G. Scott.

  1. 1 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  2. 2 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  3. 3 James G. Scott Australia 136k 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-Road Interactions and Conservation?

The most cited paper in Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation is "Global Change and the Ecology of Cities" (Nancy B. Grimm, Stanley H. Faeth, Nancy E. Golubiewski et al., 2008), with 7,209 citations. Next come "The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation" (4,293) and "ROADS AND THEIR MAJOR ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS" (3,372).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global Change and the Ecology of Cities Nancy B. Grimm, Stanley H. Faeth, Nancy E. Golubiewski et al. · Science 7 Feb 2008 7,209
2 The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation Milton Cézar Ribeiro, Jean Paul Metzger, Alexandre Camargo Martensen et al. · Biological Conservation 25 Mar 2009 4,293
3 ROADS AND THEIR MAJOR ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS Richard T. T. Forman, Lauren E. Alexander · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Nov 1998 3,372
4 A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research Ran Nathan, Wayne Marcus Getz, Eloy Revilla et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 5 Dec 2008 3,071
5 Review of Ecological Effects of Roads on Terrestrial and Aquatic Communities Stephen C. Trombulak, Christopher A. Frissell · Conservation Biology Feb 2000 2,766
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Where is Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation research done?

The largest centres of Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Wuhan (China), Nanjing (China) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dehra Dūn.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 255 works
  2. 2 WuhanChina 51 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 49 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 39 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 38 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 35 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 34 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 30 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 29 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Dehra DūnIN · 25.5 works6.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Forestry University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 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%mean 25.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northwest Normal Uni…Beijing Normal Unive…University of Chines…Beijing Forestry Uni…
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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
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 76.833.5%7.2×21 +110.8%
2Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 67.319.1%21.7×23 +96.1%
3University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.826.9%2.8×17 +48.9%
4Northwest Normal UniversityChina 59.642.8%9.2×8 +230.1%
5Guizhou Normal UniversityChina 55.527.1%37.5×14 -
6Wuhan UniversityChina 53.430.0%2.3×12 +91.3%
7China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 49.522.4%4.2×12 +61.1%
8China University of GeosciencesChina 49.528.1%5.3×9 +148.8%
9Wildlife Institute of IndiaIndia 47.94.5%210.3×17 +69.4%
10University of British ColumbiaCanada 45.118.6%2.8×12 +0.1%

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 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, country by country

Is Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Wildlife-Road Interactions 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-Road Interactions and Conservation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Wildlife-Road Interactions 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-Road Interactions and Conservation10.2% 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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