This finding is from the report “Research on Biodiversity in the Netherlands and Worldwide” produced by Elsevier, an information and research analytics company.

A report produced by Elsevier, an information and research analytics company, found that USP is the third university in the world that publishes the most articles on biodiversity. The report titled “Research on Biodiversity in the Netherlands and Worldwide” compares the scope and impact of biodiversity research in the Netherlands and other countries around the world, covering the academic landscape, collaboration with industry, how international policy is shaped, and analyzing Dutch funding for biodiversity research.

With 1,882 indexed publications in the last five years, USP ranks behind the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Montpellier.

Biodiversity research is the study of life on Earth at all levels, from genes to entire ecosystems composed of plants, animals, humans, and other organisms. For the report, the Scopus database was used, which is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, indexing content from over 25,000 academic journals and 7,000 publishers.

Michiel Kolman – Photo: Elsevier “The decline in biodiversity is one of the greatest challenges we face on a global scale, so at Elsevier, we decided to contribute to mapping biodiversity research globally and with an in-depth dive into the Netherlands, where Elsevier is based. We wanted to see which nations and scientific organizations have contributed the most to biodiversity research,” explains Michiel Kolman, Senior Vice President of Research Networks at Elsevier.

“If biodiversity continues to decline, the quality of life on Earth will also decrease. We hope this report will be useful for all stakeholders – from policymakers to researchers and the public – as we collectively address this important issue. It is very encouraging to see both the high volume and quality of research on this topic, both here in the Netherlands and worldwide,” Kolman adds.

USP in the top 3 One of the main results of the study concerns a 10% increase in academic research on biodiversity in the past five years. The report identified strong international collaboration on this topic, with Dutch researchers collaborating with authors outside the Netherlands in 83% of research articles, while the global average is 37% for biodiversity articles. Over the past decade, European countries have published more biodiversity research, with 41% of authors based in Europe, followed by the United States (21%) and China (16%).

According to the document, countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa publish substantially more on biodiversity than their overall contribution to global research, while countries like Russia, India, China, and Japan publish relatively less.

MOST PRODUCTIVE UNIVERSITIES SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT Chinese Academy of Sciences 2,937 University of Montpellier 1,945 University of São Paulo (USP) 1,882 PSL University 1,846 Smithsonian Institution 1,555 National Autonomous University of Mexico 1,531 Sorbonne University 1,477 University of Queensland 1,366 Wageningen University & Research 1,366 Friedrich Schiller University Jena 1,329

“When we look at countries, we see that some of them really stand out as they contribute more to biodiversity research than expected based on their overall contribution to research literature. Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa contribute about 2% of all their publications to biodiversity, which is three times higher than the global average. It is clear that these countries also contribute immensely to biodiversity, considering the variety of species in their ecosystems,” evaluates the Elsevier representative.

The report also reveals that researchers and Brazilians work together on a variety of topics related to the ecology and conservation of Amazonian tropical forests, including the impacts of deforestation and climate change, fish ecology, and other aquatic species, and the use of remote sensing and other technologies for monitoring forest ecosystems.

The report also reveals that researchers and Brazilians work together on a variety of topics related to the ecology and conservation of Amazonian tropical forests, including the impacts of deforestation and climate change, fish ecology, and other aquatic species, as well as the use of remote sensing and other technologies for monitoring forest ecosystems.

According to the analysis of the most prolific universities in the world in terms of biodiversity, “USP is in the top 3, which is an impressive achievement. I am confident that USP contributes significantly to Brazil’s strong history in biodiversity research.”

The Elsevier report was launched on May 22nd, which marks the International Day for Biological Diversity.