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Alaska Pacific University

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World rank, all time
#19,628
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#4,070
of 7,310
Research works
244
▼ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.6k
14.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
Alaska Pacific University

Which fields of science does Alaska Pacific University work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research at Alaska Pacific University is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (43%), Social Sciences (21%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 15 fractional works · 57.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 43.1% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 16.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 13.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 6.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 8.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 6.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 24.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 20.8% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 9.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 10.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 7.4% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKAlaska PacificUniversity25fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences24%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1143.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences28.9%
    3. Engineering01.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.7%
    5. Computer Science01.5%
    6. Chemistry01.0%
    1. Social Sciences520.8%
    2. Psychology01.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities01.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.0%
    3. Neuroscience01.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.7%
    1. Medicine15.2%
    2. Health Professions01.9%
    3. Veterinary00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.70× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 8.68× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.77× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.73× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksMedicineVeterinary: 1.94× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.65× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 8.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science8.68×11 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.70×2 works
  3. Veterinary1.94×0 works
  4. Social Sciences1.65×5 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.91×1 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy0.77×0 works
  7. Neuroscience0.76×0 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.75×1 works
  9. Health Professions0.73×0 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.65×0 works
  11. Chemistry0.65×0 works
  12. Psychology0.60×0 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.46×0 works
  14. Medicine0.27×1 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.21×0 works
  16. Computer Science0.19×0 works
  17. Engineering0.11×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Alaska Pacific University?

Ranked on the quality score, David Scheel, Roman J. Dial and Robert Murphy lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Alaska Pacific University.

  1. 1 David Scheel United States · #279,305 worldwide 6.1k citations · 74 works
  2. 2 Roman J. Dial United States · #355,818 worldwide 2.3k citations · 73 works
  3. 3 Robert Murphy United States · #1,043,852 worldwide 1.2k citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Erin I. Larson United States · #1,555,300 worldwide 695 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Ann M. A. Harding United States · #1,628,747 worldwide 1.7k citations · 36 works
  6. 6 Nathan Wolf United States · #2,986,996 worldwide 2k citations · 54 works
  7. 7 Svetlana V. Nuss United States · #3,064,993 worldwide 25 citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Bradley P. Harris United States · #3,342,311 worldwide 894 citations · 64 works
  9. 9 Richard L. Myers United States · #3,349,122 worldwide 1.2k citations · 24 works
  10. 10 Jason E. Geck United States · #3,507,230 worldwide 241 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Alaska Pacific University

What are the most cited papers from Alaska Pacific University?

The most cited paper from Alaska Pacific University is "Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century" (Shelley D. Crausbay, Aaron R. Ramirez, Shawn L. Carter et al., 2017), with 491 citations. Next come "Role of Cysteine Residues in Regulation of p53 Function" (307) and "Microplastic pollution in the Greenland Sea: Background levels and selective contamination of planktivorous diving seabirds" (305).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century Shelley D. Crausbay, Aaron R. Ramirez, Shawn L. Carter et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 26 Jun 2017 491
2 Role of Cysteine Residues in Regulation of p53 Function Robin Rainwater, Dorothy Parks, Mary E. Anderson et al. · Molecular and Cellular Biology Open access Jul 1995 307
3 Microplastic pollution in the Greenland Sea: Background levels and selective contamination of planktivorous diving seabirds Françoise Amélineau, Delphine Bonnet, Olivier Heitz et al. · Environmental Pollution 13 Sep 2016 305
4 From Chemical Gardens to Chemobrionics Laura M. Barge et al. · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 15 Jul 2015 298
5 Validation of a Forest Values Typology for Use in National Forest Planning Greg Brown, Patrick C. Reed · Forest Science Open access May 2000 260
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Alaska Pacific University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Fisheries Sustainability, Invasive Species, Trophic Cascades, Biodiversity, Mediatization, Ecosystem Management and Marine Fisheries.

▲ 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 institution's work against its share of the world's. The 24 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change9▲ 13×29 topics
  2. Fisheries Sustainability3▲ 132×2 topics
  3. Invasive Species2▲ 23×8 topics
  4. Trophic Cascades2▲ 88×2 topics
  5. Biodiversity2▲ 9.7×13 topics
  6. Mediatization2▲ 138×2 topics
  7. Sustainability2▲ 2.8×9 topics
  8. Ecosystem Management2▲ 114×1 topic
  9. Marine Fisheries2▲ 166×1 topic
  10. Conservation2▲ 15×8 topics
  11. Agenda Setting2▲ 181×1 topic
  12. Media Framing2▲ 181×1 topic
  13. Social Media2▲ 4.4×4 topics
  14. Hydrology1▲ 43×3 topics
  15. Population Dynamics1▲ 21×4 topics
  16. Habitat Fragmentation1▲ 24×3 topics
  17. Migration1▲ 15×2 topics
  18. Conservation Challenges1▲ 101×1 topic
  19. Environmental Impact1▲ 2.9×7 topics
  20. Flow Regulation1▲ 101×1 topic
  21. Freshwater Biodiversity1▲ 81×2 topics
  22. Empire1▲ 46×1 topic
  23. Remote Sensing1▲ 3.3×3 topics
  24. Soviet Union1▲ 72×1 topic

Which research topics does Alaska Pacific University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and fisheries research, Media Studies and Communication, Fish Ecology and Management Studies and Soviet and Russian History.

Marine and fisheries research: 2 fractional worksMedia Studies and Communication: 2 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…1Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 1 fractional worksSoviet and Russian History1Soviet and Russian History: 1 fractional worksSocial Media and Politics: 1 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 1 fractional worksIsotope Analysis in Ecol…1Isotope Analysis in Ecology: 1 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 1 fractional worksClimate change and permafrost: 1 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 1 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeCommunicationNature and Landscape ConservationPolitical Science and International Relations2 others

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

  1. 1 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  2. 2 Media Studies and Communication Communication 2 works
  3. 3 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  4. 4 Soviet and Russian History Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  5. 5 Social Media and Politics Communication 1 works
  6. 6 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 1 works
  7. 7 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 1 works
  8. 8 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 1 works
  9. 9 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 1 works
  10. 10 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available30.7%not open69.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.9%domestic only88.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Alaska Pacific University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Alaska Pacific University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00013% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Alaska Pacific University0.000035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Alaska Pacific University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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