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Research in Sandakan

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Sandakan, Malaysia. The largest by output are Sabah Forestry Department.

Research institutions
1
Research works
182
▲ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.6k
25.5 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
14.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1963-2026
64 years on the record
Sandakan

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Which research institutions are in Sandakan?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Sabah Forestry DepartmentGovernment institution 182 #29,285 all time

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Sandakan work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research in Sandakan is in Physical Sciences, 37% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (32%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (28%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 23 fractional works · 43.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 32.0% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 13.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 9.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 20 fractional works · 37.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 fractional works · 28.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 9.9% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 6.1% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 14.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife-span and Life-course Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 4.6% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSandakan52fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences37%Physical Sciences43%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences14%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1732.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.3%
    3. Engineering23.1%
    4. Mathematics12.5%
    5. Computer Science11.2%
    6. Chemistry00.8%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1528.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology46.8%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics11.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.6%
    1. Social Sciences59.7%
    2. Psychology12.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.6%
    5. Decision Sciences00.2%
    1. Medicine24.6%
    2. Health Professions00.3%
    3. Nursing00.3%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Sandakan?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Conservation, Climate Change, Biogeography, Population Dynamics, Habitat Fragmentation and Global Change.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity10▲ 24×16 topics
  2. Climate Change8▲ 5.4×22 topics
  3. Invasive Species7▲ 33×16 topics
  4. Conservation7▲ 32×13 topics
  5. Biogeography5▲ 32×10 topics
  6. Population Dynamics5▲ 34×10 topics
  7. Habitat Fragmentation4▲ 39×5 topics
  8. Global Change4▲ 29×4 topics
  9. Evolution4▲ 28×6 topics
  10. Phylogeny4▲ 41×9 topics
  11. Biological Invasions3▲ 67×3 topics
  12. Taxonomy3▲ 43×6 topics
  13. Environmental Impact3▲ 3.2×5 topics
  14. Ecosystem3▲ 51×3 topics
  15. Land Use Change3▲ 18×4 topics
  16. Community Ecology3▲ 60×2 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services3▲ 13×6 topics
  18. Biodiversity Conservation3▲ 13×7 topics
  19. Functional Diversity3▲ 91×1 topic
  20. Species Richness3▲ 78×1 topic
  21. Animal Movement2▲ 81×1 topic
  22. Occupancy Rates2▲ 81×1 topic
  23. Conservation Biology2▲ 36×3 topics
  24. DNA Barcoding2▲ 22×7 topics
  25. Acoustic Communication2▲ 68×3 topics
  26. Biological Control2▲ 22×6 topics
  27. Molecular Phylogeny2▲ 19×6 topics
  28. Phylogeography2▲ 91×2 topics
  29. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 15×2 topics
  30. Oil Palm Expansion2▲ 171×1 topic
  31. Phylogenetic Analysis2▲ 9.5×6 topics
  32. Tropical Agriculture2▲ 171×1 topic
  33. Orthoptera2▲ 388×1 topic
  34. Speciation2▲ 62×1 topic
  35. Aquaculture1▲ 10×4 topics
  36. Ecosystem Functioning1▲ 13×6 topics
  37. Microbial Communities1▲ 6.1×3 topics
  38. Land Suitability1▲ 74×2 topics
  39. Agroforestry1▲ 35×4 topics
  40. Hydroponics1▲ 36×2 topics

What research is done in Sandakan?

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 2 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 2 fractional worksOil Palm Production and …1Oil Palm Production and Sustainability: 1 fractional worksOrthoptera Research and …1Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy: 1 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 1 fractional worksInnovations in Aquaponic…1Innovations in Aquaponics and Hydroponics Systems: 1 fractional worksPrimate Behavior and Ecology: 1 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 1 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 1 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationEcologyEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcological Modeling3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  2. 2 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 2 works
  3. 3 Oil Palm Production and Sustainability Ecology 1 works
  4. 4 Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  5. 5 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  6. 6 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 1 works
  7. 7 Innovations in Aquaponics and Hydroponics Systems Aquatic Science 1 works
  8. 8 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 1 works
  9. 9 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  10. 10 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works

Research output over time

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