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Research in Thetford

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Thetford, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are British Trust for Ornithology.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
718
▼ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
34k
47.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
35.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1952-2026
75 years on the record
Thetford

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Thetford?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1British Trust for OrnithologyNonprofit 718 #22,052

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 Thetford work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research in Thetford is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (73%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%), Medicine (4%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 51 fractional works · 77.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 48 fractional works · 72.7% of its workEcology: 28 fractional works · 41.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 8 fractional works · 12.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 6 fractional works · 9.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 5.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 15.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 7.4% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKThetford66fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences77%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences3%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science4872.7%
    2. Engineering11.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.5%
    4. Computer Science10.9%
    5. Mathematics00.1%
    6. Energy00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences69.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology23.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.9%
    4. Neuroscience00.3%
    1. Medicine34.3%
    2. Health Professions00.3%
    1. Social Sciences11.0%
    2. Psychology10.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Thetford strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Thetford is most concentrated in Ecology and Environmental Science (54.2× the world share in Ecology).

  1. EcologySubfield · 26.1 works54×
  2. Environmental ScienceField · 45.5 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

The whole field profile

All 22 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.00× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.88× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 14.95× its world share, 46 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 14.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science14.95×46 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.00×6 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology1.88×1 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.06×1 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.60×2 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.36×0 works
  7. Medicine0.22×2 works
  8. Psychology0.19×0 works
  9. Health Professions0.13×0 works
  10. Mathematics0.11×0 works
  11. Energy0.10×0 works
  12. Engineering0.10×1 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.10×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.09×1 works
  15. Computer Science0.07×0 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.07×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Thetford?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Biodiversity, Population Dynamics, Avian Ecology, Migration Patterns, Trophic Cascades and Animal Movement.

▲ 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. Climate Change29▲ 16×33 topics
  2. Habitat Selection20▲ 425×2 topics
  3. Biodiversity16▲ 32×12 topics
  4. Population Dynamics14▲ 80×7 topics
  5. Avian Ecology10▲ 725×1 topic
  6. Migration Patterns10▲ 610×1 topic
  7. Trophic Cascades10▲ 168×2 topics
  8. Animal Movement10▲ 297×1 topic
  9. Invasive Species10▲ 36×13 topics
  10. Occupancy Rates10▲ 297×1 topic
  11. Conservation Biology10▲ 140×4 topics
  12. Conservation9▲ 32×11 topics
  13. Ecological Niche8▲ 209×1 topic
  14. Species Distribution Modeling8▲ 209×1 topic
  15. Habitat Fragmentation6▲ 45×4 topics
  16. Global Change6▲ 35×4 topics
  17. Ecosystem5▲ 77×3 topics
  18. Biological Invasions5▲ 78×3 topics
  19. Community Ecology5▲ 82×2 topics
  20. Functional Diversity4▲ 125×1 topic
  21. Species Richness4▲ 107×1 topic
  22. Ecosystem Services3▲ 11×5 topics
  23. Predator-Prey Interactions3▲ 53×2 topics
  24. Molecular Phylogeny3▲ 24×6 topics
  25. Acoustic Communication2▲ 71×2 topics
  26. Biodiversity Conservation2▲ 9.1×7 topics
  27. Pathogenesis2▲ 6.2×4 topics
  28. Adaptive Evolution2▲ 54×2 topics
  29. Ecosystem Resilience2▲ 20×5 topics
  30. Genetic Variation2▲ 13×2 topics
  31. Natural Selection2▲ 52×1 topic
  32. Phenotypic Plasticity2▲ 105×1 topic
  33. Reproductive Strategies2▲ 73×2 topics
  34. Land Use Change2▲ 8.0×3 topics
  35. Island Ecosystems2▲ 70×1 topic
  36. Rodent Eradication2▲ 113×1 topic
  37. Climate Change Impacts1▲ 18×3 topics
  38. Host Specificity1▲ 19×2 topics
  39. Anthropogenic Noise1▲ 68×1 topic
  40. Marine Mammals1▲ 68×1 topic

What research is done in Thetford?

Wildlife Ecology and Con…10Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 10 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior10Avian ecology and behavior: 10 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 8 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 4 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Reproduction: 2 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 2 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 1 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 1 fractional worksBat Biology and Ecology Studies: 1 fractional works
EcologyEcological ModelingNature and Landscape ConservationEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics1 others

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

  1. 1 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 10 works
  2. 2 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 10 works
  3. 3 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 8 works
  4. 4 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 4 works
  5. 5 Animal Behavior and Reproduction Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2 works
  6. 6 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 2 works
  7. 7 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 1 works
  8. 8 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  9. 9 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  10. 10 Bat Biology and Ecology Studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works

Research output over time

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