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Environmental and ecological economics: A citation analysis

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Content Inside: ANALYSIS Environmental and ecological economics: A citation analysis Chunbo Ma 1 David I. Stern * Department of Economics Sage Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy NY 12180-3590 USA Received 6 September 2004; received in revised form 16 July 2005; accepted 18 July 2005 Available online 5 October 2005 Abstract This study looks at two distinct questions: dWhat have been the most influential journal articles in environmental economics and ecological economics over the 10-year period 19942003?T; and dHow much overlap is there between the fields of environmental and ecological economics?T We examine the references in all articles published in JEEM and Ecological Economics (EE) over this period. For each of these two fields a list of the top articles and top journals cited by articles published in JEEM and EE is presented. We also present some results based on our study of the ISI Journal Citation Reports. We find that there is a significant overlap between the two fields at the journal level the two journals cite similar journals. There is a correlation of 0.34 between the number of citations received by the journals that are most cited and the correlation is even higher if journal self-citation is excluded. The main differences are that ecological economics tends to cite (but not be cited by) general natural science journals more often than environmental economics does environmental economics cites more heavily from journals rather than other publications and citations in environmental economics are more concentrated on particular journals and individual publications. However there is much less similarity at the level of individual articles. Non- market valuation articles dominate the most cited articles in JEEM while green accounting sustainability and the environ- mental Kuznets curve are all prominent topics in EE. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Citations; Bibliometrics; Environmental economics; Ecologi ...