2026-09-20

96 journals· 265 candidates — 1 worth your time· 83 without an open abstract

no arXiv arXiv answered and returned nothing this day, so this issue covers the rest. The papers below are real — what is missing is the other half of the scope, not the reading.

Headline

Three decades of urban ecosystem service research, mapped through bibliometrics

Today, together

tag shift
no tag ran above its 30-day average
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no foundation work was cited by four of the day's papers counted over the 83 of this day's 84 named papers whose reference lists we have — standing on the same older work is not the same as being about the same thing
first appearance
Bankura University; Jadavpur University none of them on a paper we published in the 100 days before this issue

Two counts, not one counted twice: every row here but “on the same shoulders” counts the papers published above, and that one counts every paper this day named — those and the ones under Also published today, whose abstracts we could not read.

published: Discover Cities

Swarnava Dey, Jayita Guha Niyogi, Debashish Das, et al.
Discover Cities

Jadavpur University

Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Urban Green Space and Health · Urban Planning and Governance · Jadavpur University · Bankura University

Evaluating the evolution of urban ecosystem service assessment research through bibliometric and science mapping analysis

This study analyzed 4,821 academic articles on urban ecosystem service assessment published between 1996 and 2024 from the Web of Science Core Collection. Using the bibliometric and science mapping tools VOSviewer and SciMAT, it tracked the field's thematic evolution from early environmental valuations and land-use changes to more complex socio-ecological themes, including cultural services and institutional frameworks.

Why it matters — It maps nearly three decades of research to reveal that despite the field's expansion, environmental dimensions still disproportionately dominate the literature, exposing a critical gap in how researchers address socio-economic inequalities, governance, and behavioral drivers.

Caveat: The analysis is limited to literature indexed within the Web of Science Core Collection, potentially omitting relevant studies published in other databases or non-English languages.

Discover Cities · doi

Still cited

Nancy B. Grimm, Stanley H. Faeth (2008), Global Change and the Ecology of Cities 1 of today's items cite it · 16 of 3240 in the archive stand on it

Also published today

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