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Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century

Overview of attention for article published in Restoration Ecology, June 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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Title
Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty‐first century
Published in
Restoration Ecology, June 2017
DOI 10.1111/rec.12554
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Authors

David M. Martin

Abstract

Forty years ago, ecological restoration was conceptualized through a natural science lens. Today, ecological restoration has evolved into a social and scientific concept. The duality of ecological restoration is acknowledged in guidance documents on the subject but is not apparent in its definition. Current definitions reflect our views about what ecological restoration does but not why we do it. This viewpoint does not give appropriate credit to contributions from social sciences, nor does it provide compelling goals for people with different motivating rationales to engage in or support restoration. In this study, I give a concise history of the conceptualization and definition of ecological restoration, and I propose an alternative definition and corresponding viewpoint on restoration goal-setting to meet twenty-first century scientific and public inquiry.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 460 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 73 16%
Student > Bachelor 72 16%
Researcher 58 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 5%
Other 70 15%
Unknown 110 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 162 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 107 23%
Social Sciences 12 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 12 3%
Engineering 7 2%
Other 37 8%
Unknown 123 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 November 2022.
All research outputs
#1,196,955
of 24,716,872 outputs
Outputs from Restoration Ecology
#98
of 1,675 outputs
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#24,215
of 320,083 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Restoration Ecology
#2
of 16 outputs
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