The TCA Corpus: A Comprehensive Literature Resource from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment
Background The Transformative Change Assessment Corpus (TCA Corpus) is a collection of literature compiled by the authors in support of the Thematic Assessment Report of the Underlying Causes of Biodiversity Loss and the Determinants of Transformative Change and Options for Achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity (TCA) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Methods The corpus is based on the OpenAlex database, which contained about 253 million documents at the time of compilation (April 2024). It was built by searching for documents combining terms defining nature and transformative change in the context of the TCA assessment, combined with the boolean operator AND, yielding 4.7 million documents. Its inclusiveness was checked against 134 key papers considered foundational by the IPBES TCA author team. Conclusions The TCA Corpus played a key role in the TCA by serving as a documentary basis to support quantitative statements, and provides a foundation for further research on transformative change toward a just and sustainable world, usable by the scientific community, policy makers and stakeholders. The TCA Corpus has already supported several peer-reviewed follow-up publications.
Authors
- Fern Wickson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2841-4155)
- Aidin Niamir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-3407)
- Edward R. Carr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-471X)
- Rainer M. Krug (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7490-0066)
- Karina Benessaiah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9959-554X)
- Elena Bennett
- Rafael Calderón-Contreras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8709-4502)
- Janita Gurung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-4412)
- Hannah Gosnell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2108-945X)
- L. V. Shannon
- Sandra Waddock
- Camille Guibal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3376-2891)
- Lucas A. Garibaldi
- Sergio A. Lambertucci
- Arun Agrawal
- Reinette Biggs
- Karen O'Brien
- Victoria Reyes-García
- Sebastian Villasante
- Niki Frantzeskaki
- Yves Zinngrebe
- Chuan Liao
- Julia Leventon
Institutions
- Boston College (US)
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
- Oregon State University (US)
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (SE)
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (DE)
- Stockholm Resilience Centre (SE)
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (MX)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Cornell University (US)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (DE)
- National University of Río Negro (AR)
- Stockholm Environment Institute (US)
- Centro Científico Tecnológico - San Juan (AR)
- Zurich University of Teacher Education (CH)
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute (CZ)
- UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (TH)
- Ste. Anne's Hospital (CA)
- Services déconcentrés d'appui à la recherche Occitanie-Montpellier (FR)
- McGill University (CA)
- Universidad Nacional del Comahue (AR)
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway (NO)
- University of Guelph (CA)
- University of the Western Cape (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- F1000Research
- Published
- 2026-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.180654.1
- Primary Topic
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Research Council
- Horizon 2020