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Anglo-Boer War Museum

In research, Anglo-Boer War Museum stands highest in Life Sciences (#9,356 of 11,023 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Anthropology (Paleontology is 91.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#25,304
of 34,923
Rank in South Africa
#95
of 126
Research works
283
▲ 285% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.2k
32.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Anglo-Boer War Museum

What is Anglo-Boer War Museum known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Life SciencesDomain #9,356 of 11,023 7.4%122

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Anglo-Boer War Museum sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Anglo-Boer War Museum work in?

In all years, 43% of research at Anglo-Boer War Museum is in Life Sciences, 36% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (31%), Environmental Science (19%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 122 fractional works · 42.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 87 fractional works · 30.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 66 fractional works · 23.1% of its workInsect Science: 9 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workForestry: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 fractional works · 11.4% of its workGenetics: 27 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 103 fractional works · 36.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 55 fractional works · 19.4% of its workEcology: 36 fractional works · 12.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 43 fractional works · 15.1% of its workPaleontology: 38 fractional works · 13.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 54 fractional works · 19.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 39 fractional works · 13.8% of its workAnthropology: 25 fractional works · 8.7% of its workArcheology: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAnglo-Boer WarMuseum283fractional works, all years
Life Sciences43%Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences19%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8730.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3211.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.7%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Environmental Science5519.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4315.1%
    3. Mathematics41.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy10.3%
    5. Computer Science00.2%
    6. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Social Sciences3913.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities82.9%
    3. Psychology62.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    1. Medicine31.1%
    2. Health Professions10.5%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Anglo-Boer War Museum specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Paleontology takes 91.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PaleontologySubfield · 37.9 works91×
  2. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 65.5 works41×
  3. AnthropologySubfield · 24.8 works28×
  4. EcologySubfield · 36.3 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Who are the top researchers at Anglo-Boer War Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Wilhelm Haacke and Douglas H. Gordon lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Anglo-Boer War Museum.

  1. 1 Wilhelm Haacke South Africa · #2,893,479 worldwide 40 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Douglas H. Gordon South Africa · #4,099,393 worldwide 367 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Anglo-Boer War Museum

What are the most cited papers from Anglo-Boer War Museum?

The most cited paper from Anglo-Boer War Museum is "Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form" (Stephen Jay Gould, Elisabeth S. Vrba, 1982), with 5,178 citations. Next come "The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection: sorting and selection cannot be equated" (397) and "Individuals, hierarchies and processes: towards a more complete evolutionary theory" (314).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form Stephen Jay Gould, Elisabeth S. Vrba · Paleobiology 1982 5,178
2 The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection: sorting and selection cannot be equated Elisabeth S. Vrba, Stephen Jay Gould · Paleobiology 1986 397
3 Individuals, hierarchies and processes: towards a more complete evolutionary theory Elisabeth S. Vrba, Niles Eldredge · Paleobiology 1984 314
4 Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of Australopithecus Tim D. White et al. · Nature Apr 2006 289
5 Evidence from the Swartkrans cave for the earliest use of fire Charles K. Brain, A. Sillent · Nature Dec 1988 280
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Anglo-Boer War Museum?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biogeography, Evolution, Taxonomy, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Phylogeny, Molecular Phylogeny and DNA Barcoding.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 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. Biogeography61▲ 64×14 topics
  2. Evolution55▲ 66×13 topics
  3. Climate Change53▲ 7.0×24 topics
  4. Taxonomy52▲ 122×8 topics
  5. Biodiversity50▲ 24×16 topics
  6. Phylogeny46▲ 90×11 topics
  7. Molecular Phylogeny42▲ 73×9 topics
  8. DNA Barcoding38▲ 84×6 topics
  9. Population Dynamics34▲ 40×9 topics
  10. Invasive Species32▲ 19×17 topics
  11. Conservation32▲ 23×11 topics
  12. Coleoptera23▲ 479×2 topics
  13. Hominin Genetics23▲ 307×1 topic
  14. Paleolithic Archaeology23▲ 307×1 topic
  15. Habitat Selection23▲ 88×2 topics
  16. Phylogenetic Analysis23▲ 21×8 topics
  17. Speciation23▲ 222×2 topics
  18. Morphology22▲ 41×5 topics
  19. Mammal Evolution22▲ 272×1 topic
  20. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis22▲ 272×1 topic
  21. Habitat Fragmentation20▲ 24×5 topics
  22. Animal Movement18▲ 106×1 topic
  23. Occupancy Rates18▲ 106×1 topic
  24. Lepidoptera18▲ 346×1 topic
  25. Molecular Phylogenetics18▲ 346×1 topic
  26. Diversification16▲ 134×2 topics
  27. Neotropical Region16▲ 390×2 topics
  28. beetles15▲ 475×1 topic
  29. Global Change13▲ 15×4 topics
  30. Conservation Biology12▲ 38×3 topics
  31. Metabolic Rate11▲ 41×2 topics
  32. Phylogeography10▲ 76×2 topics
  33. Bats10▲ 87×1 topic
  34. Hibernation10▲ 163×1 topic
  35. Acoustic Communication10▲ 57×3 topics
  36. Archaeology8▲ 20×3 topics
  37. Biodiversity Conservation8▲ 11×4 topics
  38. Cerambycidae8▲ 486×1 topic
  39. Host Plants8▲ 267×1 topic
  40. Endemism8▲ 129×2 topics

Which research topics does Anglo-Boer War Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution, Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography and Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies.

Coleoptera Taxonomy and …0Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution: 0 fractional worksScarabaeidae Beetle Taxo…0Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography: 0 fractional worksColeoptera: Cerambycidae…0Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies: 0 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsPaleontology

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

  1. 1 Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  2. 2 Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography Paleontology 0 works
  3. 3 Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 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 available11.6%not open88.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.8%domestic only90.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Anglo-Boer War Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 285% higher than in 2018-2021.

1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Anglo-Boer War Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000029% in 2019.

0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Anglo-Boer War Museum0.0000093% in 202319801990200020102020

Fractional works of Anglo-Boer War Museum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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