SDG 15: Life on land
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 15, Life on land. OpenAlex assigns a paper to each UN Sustainable Development Goal that its classifier scores above 0.4 from the paper's text; a paper can belong to several goals or to none. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 15 (Life on land) was addressed by 2,144 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,516), tourism and hospitality (246) and operations research (98).
- It is #15 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (671).
- 257 of them were published in 2025, against 222 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (23), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (22) and AgroParisTech (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Ecological Economics (243), Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (92) and World Development (76).
- The most-cited of them is “Ecological-economic trade-offs of Diversified Farming Systems – A review” (Ecological Economics, 2019), with 396 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 192 | 163 | 159 | 140 | 149 | 159 | 132 | 141 | 136 | 145 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 16 | 23 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 27 | 32 | 26 |
| Operations Research | 8 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 11 |
| AI | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 14 |
| Finance | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 36 | 32 |
| Management | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 14 |
| Statistics | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 222 | 198 | 201 | 183 | 199 | 219 | 198 | 216 | 257 | 251 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecological Economics | 243 |
| 2 | Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism | 92 |
| 3 | World Development | 76 |
| 4 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 50 |
| 5 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 35 |
| 6 | Expert Systems with Applications | 30 |
| 7 | Finance research letters | 28 |
| 8 | Agricultural and Food Economics | 18 |
| 9 | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences | 13 |
| 10 | Journal of Development Economics | 12 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | 23 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 22 |
| 3 | AgroParisTech | 15 |
| 4 | Peking University | 15 |
| 5 | Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement | 14 |
| 6 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 14 |
| 7 | Renmin University of China | 14 |
| 8 | Université Paris-Saclay | 14 |
| 9 | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | 13 |
| 10 | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | 13 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 205 |
| 2 | China | 175 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 93 |
| 4 | Germany | 92 |
| 5 | France | 67 |
| 6 | Italy | 52 |
| 7 | Australia | 50 |
| 8 | Brazil | 41 |
| 9 | Canada | 38 |
| 10 | Spain | 38 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | deforestation | 89 |
| 2 | biodiversity conservation | 63 |
| 3 | ecosystem services | 55 |
| 4 | China | 48 |
| 5 | protected areas | 46 |
| 6 | land use change | 42 |
| 7 | biodiversity risk | 39 |
| 8 | biodiversity loss | 37 |
| 9 | forest conservation | 27 |
| 10 | willingness to pay | 26 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 15: Life on land. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/15-life-on-land
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title = {SDG 15: Life on land},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/15-life-on-land}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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