Journal Monthly Downloads
2009 / 6,266 / 6,714 / 7,362 / 7,329 / 5,797 / 4,949 / 4,636 / 5,552
2008 / 3,884 / 3,812 / 7,198 / 6,669 / 4,629 / 3,583 / 3,359 / 4,005 / 5,275 / 6,618 / 8,436 / 5,110
2007 / 4,957 / 3,109 / 14,499* / 6,409 / 3,443 / 3,164 / 2,442 / 2,589 / 3,127 / 4,550 / 5,072 / 3,183
2006 / 1,514 / 1,812 / 2,190 / 1,590 / 1,728 / 1,725 / 1,133 / 2,365 / 2,309 / 3,766 / 3,936 / 3,156
2005 / 1,516 / 1,356 / 2,112 / 2,132 / 1,522 / 1,266 / 1,479 / 1,055 / 1,486 / 1,789 / 1,808 / 1,451
2004 / 1,114 / 1,327 / 1,381 / 1,252 / 1,396 / 1,021 / 975 / 1,009 / 1,454 / 1,774 / 1,763 / 1,443
2003 / 599 / 795 / 774 / 1,127 / 758 / 704 / 1,371 / 919 / 973 / 1,236 / 1,635 / 931
2002 / 362 / 365 / 367 / 377 / 366 / 245 / 339 / 316 / 376 / 666 / 608 / 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 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
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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 / Author / Issue/Title976 / David Feeny, et al / (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 / Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters / (Volume 27 / Number 1 / March, 1999) Against Political Ecology
608 / D. Pimental, et al / (Volume 36 / Number 4 / August, 2008) Reducing Energy Inputs in the US Food System
548 / Clark L. Gray, et al. / (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 / (Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Ecomigration and Violent Conflict: Case Studies and Public Policy Implications
524 / David Henley / (Volume 36 / Number 2 / April, 2008) Natural Resource Management: Historical Lessons from Indonesia
443 / Lisa M. Campbell and Arja Vainio-Mattila / (Volume 31 / Number 3 / September, 2003) Participatory Development and Community-Based Conservation: Opportunities Missed for Lessons Learned?
439 / Jane I. Guyer, et al. / (Volume 35 / Number 1 / February, 2007) Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
439 / Keshav Bhattarai and Dennis Conway / (Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Evaluating Land Use Dynamics and Forest Cover Change in Nepal's Bara District (1973-2003)
424 / 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
421 / J. Peter Brosius / (Volume 25 / Number 1 / March, 1997) Endangered Forest, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge
418 / Jon Pedersen and Tor A. Benjaminsen / (Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) One Leg or Two? Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel
372 / Svein Jentoft, Thijs C. van Son and Maiken Bjørkan / (Volume 35 / Number 5 / October, 2007) Marine Protected Areas: A Governance System Analysis
354 / Anders Henrik Sirén / (Volume 35 / Number 6 / December, 2007) Population Growth and Land Use Intensification in a Subsistence-based Indigenous Community in the Amazon
352 / Koen P. Overmars, Wouter T. de Groot, and Marco G.A. Huigen / (Volume 35 / Number 4 / August, 2007) Comparing Inductive and Deductive Modeling of Land Use Decisions: Principles, a Model and an Illustration from the Philippines
351 / Matthew D. Turner and Pierre Hiernaux / (Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Changing Access to Labor, Pastures, and Knowledge: The Extensification of Grazing Management in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa
332 / Jessica Méndez-Contreras, Federico Dickinson and Teresa Castillo-Burguete / (Volume 36 / Number 1 / February, 2008) Community Member Viewpoints on the Ría Celestán Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, Mexico: Suggestions for Improving the Community/Natural Protected Area Relationship
328 / Fikret Berkes and Nancy J. Turner / (Volume 34 / Number 4 / August, 2006) Knowledge, Learning and the Evolution of Conservation Practice for Social-Ecological System Resilience
313 / Emilio F. Moran / (Volume 21 / Number 1 / March, 1993) Deforestation and land use in the Brazilian Amazon
310 / Ståle Knudsen / (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
287 / Andrés Camou-Guerrero et al / (Volume 36 / Number 2 / April, 2008) Knowledge and Use Value of Plant Species in a Rarámuri Community: A Gender Perspective for Conservation
283 / Bryan Tilt / (Volume 36 / Number 2 / April, 2008)Smallholders and the "Household Responsibility System": Adapting to Institutional Change in Chinese Agriculture
267 / Anthony Davis and John R. Wagner / (Volume 31 / Number 3 / September, 2003) Who Knows? On the Importance of Identifying "Experts" When Researching Local Ecological Knowledge