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Australian Plague Locust Commission

agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/locustsROR OpenAlex
Research works
72
▼ 4% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.3k
17.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
40.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Australian Plague Locust Commission is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 8.82× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.47× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.19× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.91× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.78× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 8.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Australian Plague Locust Commission?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Invasive Species, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Biological Control, Global Change, Evolution, Habitat Fragmentation and Conservation.

▲ 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. Invasive Species16▲ 38×14 topics
  2. Climate Change15▲ 7.7×23 topics
  3. Biodiversity14▲ 27×12 topics
  4. Biological Control10▲ 83×7 topics
  5. Global Change10▲ 47×4 topics
  6. Evolution10▲ 47×6 topics
  7. Habitat Fragmentation9▲ 44×4 topics
  8. Conservation8▲ 22×9 topics
  9. Phylogeny8▲ 58×6 topics
  10. Genomics7▲ 29×2 topics
  11. Taxonomy7▲ 63×5 topics
  12. Population Dynamics5▲ 24×8 topics
  13. Ecosystem Services5▲ 21×4 topics
  14. Conservation Biology5▲ 63×3 topics
  15. Microbiota5▲ 31×3 topics
  16. Biogeography5▲ 21×6 topics
  17. Plant-Animal Interactions5▲ 58×1 topic
  18. Pollinator Decline5▲ 58×1 topic
  19. Acoustic Communication4▲ 105×2 topics
  20. Biological Invasions4▲ 54×2 topics
  21. Phylogeography4▲ 130×2 topics
  22. Speciation4▲ 170×2 topics
  23. Biopesticides4▲ 86×2 topics
  24. Orthoptera4▲ 1051×1 topic
  25. grasshoppers4▲ 1051×1 topic
  26. Ecosystem4▲ 39×3 topics
  27. Community Ecology4▲ 51×2 topics
  28. Species Richness4▲ 69×2 topics
  29. Functional Diversity4▲ 79×1 topic
  30. Pest Management4▲ 59×4 topics
  31. Social Insects4▲ 101×1 topic
  32. Symbiosis4▲ 44×1 topic
  33. Honey Bees4▲ 72×1 topic
  34. Neonicotinoids4▲ 72×1 topic
  35. Ecological Impact3▲ 65×2 topics
  36. Yersinia pestis3▲ 247×1 topic
  37. plague3▲ 247×1 topic
  38. Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles3▲ 78×1 topic
  39. Jasmonate Signaling3▲ 78×1 topic
  40. Ecological Niche3▲ 86×1 topic

Which research topics does Australian Plague Locust Commission publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control.

Animal Ecology and Behav…0Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 0 fractional worksInsect and Pesticide Res…0Insect and Pesticide Research: 0 fractional worksOrthoptera Research and …0Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy: 0 fractional worksInsect-Plant Interaction…0Insect-Plant Interactions and Control: 0 fractional worksHemiptera Insect Studies: 0 fractional worksYersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research: 0 fractional worksGenomics and Phylogeneti…0Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies: 0 fractional worksVector-borne infectious …0Vector-borne infectious diseases: 0 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…0Species Distribution and Climate Change: 0 fractional worksPlant and animal studies0Plant and animal studies: 0 fractional works
EcologyInsect ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 0 works
  2. 2 Insect and Pesticide Research Insect Science 0 works
  3. 3 Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  4. 4 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control Insect Science 0 works
  5. 5 Hemiptera Insect Studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  6. 6 Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research Genetics 0 works
  7. 7 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Molecular Biology 0 works
  8. 8 Vector-borne infectious diseases Parasitology 0 works
  9. 9 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 0 works
  10. 10 Plant and animal 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 available29.4%not open70.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.3%domestic only84.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Australian Plague Locust Commission's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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