Human-wildlife conflict: A bibliometric analysis during 1991-2023

doi:10.1016/j.regsus.2023.08.008

Abstract

Abstract:

The escalating conflict between human and wildlife due to competing demands for limited space and resources has raised concerns worldwide, and understanding the dynamics of this conflict is crucial for devising effective strategies and policies. The present study is an attempt to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the published literature on the topic of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) for the period of January 1991-February 2023. For carrying out the analysis of the data obtained from Web of Science, the ‘Bibliometrix’ tool, developed through the R programming language, was used. The findings of the study revealed that a total of 1592 documents have been published on the HWC research topic from January 1991 to February 2023 within 338 sources. It is observed that the number of publications has continuously increased since 1991, with an annual growth rate of 5.16%. A total of 4995 authors have contributed to the targeted research field. Of the 388 sources, the journal ‘Biological Conservation’ is the most relevant and productive, followed by ‘Oryx’ and ‘Human Dimensions of Wildlife’. Based on the country production analysis, authors from 110 countries have contributed to the field, and the USA has the highest frequency of publications on HWC, followed by the UK and Australia. The USA also has the highest multiple country publications and has collaborated with 88 countries, with the highest frequency of collaboration with the UK, followed by India, Australia, and South Africa. The most frequently used keywords include ‘human-wildlife conflict’, ‘conservation’, ‘conflict’, ‘human-wildlife’, ‘wildlife’, ‘wildlife management’, ‘livestock’, ‘management’, ‘coexistence’, and ‘carnivore’. The present study identifies the most prolific authors, sources, institutions, and countries, as well as the study hotspots in the subject of HWC, which may assist researchers in finding the best working and publication platforms. Further, it may also help them identify reliable research partners to acquire the best findings and develop more effective strategies and policies to address the issue.

Key words: Bibliometrix, Human-wildlife conflict, Carnivore, Wildlife management, Coexistence, Collaboration analysis

Qamer RIDWAN, Zishan Ahmad WANI, Nahila ANJUM, Jahangeer Ahmad BHAT, Mohd HANIEF, Shreekar PANT. Human-wildlife conflict: A bibliometric analysis during 1991-2023[J]. Regional Sustainability, 2023, 4(3): 309-321.

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Top 20 global cited articles on the HWC research topic during January 1991-February 2023."

Title	Author(s)	Journal	Publication year	Total citations	Total citations per year	Normalized total citations
Complexities of conflict: the importance of considering social factors for effectively resolving human-wildlife conflict	Amy Dickman	Animal Conservation	2010	717	51	11.10
Human-felid conflict: a review of patterns and priorities worldwide	Chole Inskip and Alexandra Zimmermann	Oryx	2009	452	30	5.00
Diet of wild boar Sus scrofa in Western Europe, with particular reference to consumption of agricultural crops	Laurant Schley and Timothy Roper	Mammal Review	2003	335	16	2.42
Human-wildlife conflict and coexistence	Philip Nyhus	Annual Review of Environment and Resources	2016	272	34	10.23
The hidden dimensions of human-wildlife conflict: Health impacts, opportunity and transaction costs.	Maan Barua, Shonil Bhagwat, and Sushrut Jadhav	Biological Conservation	2013	271	25	9.22
Fencing for conservation: restriction of evolutionary potential or a riposte to threatening processes?	Matt Hayward and Graham Kerley	Biological Conservation	2009	247	16	2.73
Suitability of amphibians and reptiles for translocation	Jennifer Germano and Phillip Bishop	Conservation Biology	2009	246	16	2.72
Conservation's blind spot: The case for conflict transformation in wildlife conservation	Francine Madden and Brian McQuinn	Biological Conservation	2014	244	24	8.25
Livestock depredation by large carnivores in the Indian trans-Himalaya: conflict perceptions and conservation prospects	Charudutt Mishra	Environmental Conservation	1997	219	8	1.00
Livestock predation by lions, leopards, spotted hyenas, and their vulnerability to retaliatory killing in the Maasai steppe, Tanzania	Bernard Kissui	Animal Conservation	2008	217	14	3.95
Rearticulating the myth of human-wildlife conflict	Markus Nils Peterson, Jessie Birckhead, Kirsten Leong, et al.	Conservation Letters	2010	212	15	3.28
Human-wildlife interactions in urban areas: a review of conflicts, benefits and opportunities	Carl Soulsbury and Piran White	Wildlife Research	2015	210	23	7.88
Food cleaning in gorillas: Social learning is a possibility but not a necessity	Damien Neadle, Matthias Allritz, and Claudio Tennie	PLoS ONE	2017	203	23	7.62
Conflict of interest between people and baboons: crop raiding in Uganda	Catherine Hill	International Journal of Primatology	2000	202	8	1.43
Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard (Uncia uncia)	Sumanta Bagchi and Charudutt Mishra	Journal of Zoology	2006	188	10	3.26
Tilting at wildlife: reconsidering human-wildlife conflict	Stephen Mark Redpath, Saloni Bhatia, and Juliette Young	Oryx	2015	186	21	6.98
Leopard (Panthera pardus) status, distribution, and the research efforts across its range	Andrew Jacobson, Peter Gerngross, Rebecca Schoonover, et al.	PeerJ	2016	169	21	6.36
Effects of trophy hunting on lion and leopard populations in Tanzania	Craig Packer, Henry Brink, Bernard Kissui, et al.	Conservation Biology	2011	158	12	4.42
A review of flight-initiation distances and their application to managing disturbance to Australian birds	Mike Weston, Emily Mcleod, Daniel Blumstein, et al.	Emu-Austral Ornithology	2012	155	13	3.84
Urban mammals: what does the future hold? An analysis of the factors affecting patterns of use of residential gardens in Great Britain	Philip Baker and Stephen Harris	Mammal Review	2007	154	9	2.48

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Author	Number of publications	Total citations
David Macdonald	29	834
Andrew Loveridge	15	449
Catherine Hill	14	731
Stewart Breck	11	247
Justin O’Riain	11	228
Ruth Kansky	10	383
Charudutt Mishra	10	632
Colleen Cassady Clair	10	256
Young Julie	10	69
Nils Bunnefeld	9	231
Meredith Gore	9	280
Krithi Karanth	9	177
Igor Khorozyan	9	55
Silvio Marchini	9	242
Sindhu Radhakrishna	9	88
Steve Redpath	9	404
Rosie Woodroffe	9	491
Daniel Blumstein	8	293
Colleen Downs	8	81
Russell Hill	8	81