Journal Monthly Downloads
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
Jan
6,266
3,884
4,957
1,514
1,516
1,114
599
362
Feb
6,714
3,812
3,109
1,812
1,356
1,327
795
365
Mar
7,362
7,198
14,499*
2,190
2,112
1,381
774
367
Apr
7,329
6,669
6,409
1,590
2,132
1,252
1,127
377
May
5,797
4,629
3,443
1,728
1,522
1,396
758
366
Jun
4,949
3,583
3,164
1,725
1,266
1,021
704
245
Jul
4,636
3,359
2,442
1,133
1,479
975
1,371
339
Aug
5,552
4,005
2,589
2,365
1,055
1,009
919
316
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
5,275
3,127
2,309
1,486
1,454
973
376
6,618
4,550
3,766
1,789
1,774
1,236
666
8,436
5,072
3,936
1,808
1,763
1,635
608
5,110
3,183
3,156
1,451
1,443
931
424
Total PDF Downloads Jan-August 2009: 48,605
31 % increase over Jan-August 2008: 37,139
2008 Impact Factor: 1.253
Section "Anthropology": Rank 13 of 61
Section "Environmental studies": Rank 19 of 58
Section "Sociology": Rank 21 of 100
2008 Impact Factor Calculation:
Cites in 2006 to articles published in: 2007 56 Number of articles published in: 2007 57
2006 63
2006 38
Sum: 119
Sum: 95
Calculation: Cites to recent articles
119 = 1.253
Number of recent articles 95
2007 Impact Factor Calculation:
Cites in 2007 to articles published in: 2006 41 Number of articles published in: 2006 38
2005 48
2005 33
Sum: 89
Sum: 71
Calculation: Cites to recent articles
89 = 1.254
Number of recent articles
71
2008 5-year Impact Factor: 1.721
Section “Anthropology”: Rank 14 of 61
Section “Environmental Studies”: Rank 17 of 58
Section “Sociology”: Rank 25 of 100
5-yr Impact Factor Calculation:
Cites in 2007 to articles published in: 2007 56
2007 57
2006 41 Number of articles published in: 2006 38
2005 48
2005 33
2004 57
2004 31
2003 64
2003 24
Sum: 315
Sum: 183
Calculation: Cites to recent articles
315 = 1.721
Number of recent articles 183
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Geographic Usage
The journal has strong international usage. According to data available currently, the chart below
shows the geographic spread of the top 25 institutions to download articles from the journal in the
year 2008 (including the usage number).
Author Country of Origin
The journal has a more international pool of contributors than ever. The chart below shows the
country of origin for authors submitting articles in 2008- March 2009. There was a shift from the
same time period in 07-08 in the percentage of authors from Asia (3% to 7%) and Latin America
(7% to 17%). In the previous period 48% of the authors were from North America: this has
decreased to 44%. Europe remained the same.
Author Country of Origin 2008- March 2009
Top 25 Most-Downloaded Articles for 2008
Usage
976
Author
David Feeny, et al
Issue/Title
(Volume 18 / Number 1 / March, 1990) The Tragedy of the
Commons: Twenty-two years later
811
D. Pimental, et al
(Volume 35 / Number 6 / December, 2007) Ecology of Increasing
Diseases: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation
807
(Volume 27 / Number 1 / March, 1999) Against Political Ecology
608
Andrew P. Vayda
and Bradley B.
Walters
D. Pimental, et al
548
Clark L. Gray, et al.
(Volume 36 / Number 4 / August, 2008) Reducing Energy Inputs in
the US Food System
(Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Indigenous Land Use in the
Ecuadorian Amazon: A Cross-cultural and Multilevel Analysis
547
Paul B. Trawick
(Volume 29 / Number 1 / March, 2001) Successfully Governing the
Commons: Principles of Social Organization in an Andean Irrigation
System
538
Rafael Reuveny
524
David Henley
(Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Ecomigration and Violent
Conflict: Case Studies and Public Policy Implications
(Volume 36 / Number 2 / April, 2008) Natural Resource
Management: Historical Lessons from Indonesia
443
Lisa M. Campbell
and Arja VainioMattila
Jane I. Guyer, et al.
439
439
424
421
418
372
354
352
351
332
328
313
(Volume 31 / Number 3 / September, 2003) Participatory
Development and Community-Based Conservation: Opportunities
Missed for Lessons Learned?
(Volume 35 / Number 1 / February, 2007) Temporal Heterogeneity
in the Study of African Land Use
Keshav Bhattarai
(Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Evaluating Land Use
and Dennis Conway Dynamics and Forest Cover Change in Nepal's Bara District (19732003)
Koen Kusters, et al
(Volume 35 / Number 4 / August, 2007) Towards Solutions for State
vs. Local Community Conflicts Over Forestland: The Impact of Formal
Recognition of User Rights in Krui, Sumatra, Indonesia
J. Peter Brosius
(Volume 25 / Number 1 / March, 1997) Endangered Forest,
Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous
Knowledge
Jon Pedersen and
(Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) One Leg or Two? Food
Tor A. Benjaminsen Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel
Svein Jentoft, Thijs
(Volume 35 / Number 5 / October, 2007) Marine Protected Areas: A
C. van Son and
Governance System Analysis
Maiken Bjørkan
Anders Henrik
(Volume 35 / Number 6 / December, 2007) Population Growth and
Sirén
Land Use Intensification in a Subsistence-based Indigenous Community
in the Amazon
Koen P. Overmars,
(Volume 35 / Number 4 / August, 2007) Comparing Inductive and
Wouter T. de
Deductive Modeling of Land Use Decisions: Principles, a Model and an
Groot, and Marco
Illustration from the Philippines
G.A. Huigen
Matthew D. Turner
(Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Changing Access to Labor,
and Pierre
Pastures, and Knowledge: The Extensification of Grazing Management
Hiernaux
in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa
Jessica Méndez(Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Community Member
Contreras, Federico Viewpoints on the Ría Celestán Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, Mexico:
Dickinson and
Suggestions for Improving the Community/Natural Protected Area
Teresa CastilloRelationship
Burguete
Fikret Berkes and
(Volume 34 / Number 4 / August, 2006) Knowledge, Learning and
Nancy J. Turner
the Evolution of Conservation Practice for Social-Ecological System
Resilience
Emilio F. Moran
(Volume 21 / Number 1 / March, 1993) Deforestation and land use in
the Brazilian Amazon
310
Ståle Knudsen
287
Andrés CamouGuerrero et al
283
Bryan Tilt
267
Anthony Davis and
John R. Wagner
(Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Ethical Know-how and
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Small Scale Fisheries on the
Eastern Black Sea Coast of Turkey
(Volume 36 / Number 2 / April, 2008) Knowledge and Use Value of
Plant Species in a Rarámuri Community: A Gender Perspective for
Conservation
(Volume 36 / Number 2 / April, 2008)Smallholders and the
"Household Responsibility System": Adapting to Institutional Change in
Chinese Agriculture
(Volume 31 / Number 3 / September, 2003) Who Knows? On the
Importance of Identifying "Experts" When Researching Local Ecological
Knowledge