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BirdLife Australia

In research, BirdLife Australia stands highest in Physical Sciences (#15,756 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology and Environmental Science (Ecology is 34.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,659
of 22,385 · #17,905 all time
Rank in Australia
#209
of 270
Research works
306
▼ 34% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.8k
9.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
BirdLife Australia

What is BirdLife Australia 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
Physical SciencesDomain #15,756 of 17,446 8.4%139

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where BirdLife Australia 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 BirdLife Australia work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at BirdLife Australia is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (47%), Medicine (13%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 45 fractional works · 51.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 41 fractional works · 46.7% of its workEcology: 24 fractional works · 27.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 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 workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 16 fractional works · 18.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 10.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 6.5% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 16.9% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 12.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTransplantation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 13.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.5% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBirdLifeAustralia87fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences52%Health Sciences17%Social Sciences13%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science4146.7%
    2. Engineering22.4%
    3. Computer Science11.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.1%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.3%
    6. Chemistry00.0%
    7. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences910.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology66.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Medicine1112.6%
    2. Health Professions33.3%
    3. Dentistry10.8%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences66.5%
    2. Psychology22.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities11.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does BirdLife Australia specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology takes 34.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EcologySubfield · 23.9 works35×
  2. Environmental ScienceField · 40.8 works9.4×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.24× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.22× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.10× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.41× its world share, 41 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.57× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.25× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.65× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.66× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.41×41 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.24×9 works
  3. Dentistry1.57×1 works
  4. Health Professions1.25×3 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.22×6 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.10×1 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.71×1 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.66×1 works
  9. Psychology0.66×2 works
  10. Medicine0.65×11 works
  11. Veterinary0.59×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.52×6 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.47×1 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.41×1 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.36×0 works
  16. Nursing0.31×0 works
  17. Engineering0.16×2 works
  18. Computer Science0.15×1 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.13×0 works
  20. Neuroscience0.05×0 works
  21. Mathematics0.03×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at BirdLife Australia?

Ranked on the quality score, Glenn C. Ehmke, Dean Ingwersen and Rohit D’Costa lead among researchers whose main affiliation is BirdLife Australia.

  1. 1 Glenn C. Ehmke Australia · #1,372,415 worldwide 1.1k citations · 36 works
  2. 2 Dean Ingwersen Australia · #1,810,707 worldwide 618 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Rohit D’Costa Australia · #2,276,819 worldwide 609 citations · 54 works
  4. 4 Janelle L. Thomas Australia · #3,584,490 worldwide 172 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Antonio Gutiérrez Australia · #4,742,850 worldwide 48 citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Marcin Alberski Australia · #4,748,656 worldwide 0 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Tom Macken Australia · #4,808,164 worldwide 21 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Vojtéch Chloupek Australia · #5,154,150 worldwide 3 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Pauline Kuipers Australia · #5,918,813 worldwide 6 citations · 49 works
  10. 10 Andrew J. Ley Australia · #5,950,185 worldwide 146 citations · 50 works
All ranked researchers at BirdLife Australia

What are the most cited papers from BirdLife Australia?

The most cited paper from BirdLife Australia is "The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates" (Michael P. Hoffmann et al., 2010), with 1,548 citations. Next come "BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene" (457) and "Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets" (457).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates Michael P. Hoffmann et al. · Science Open access174 authors 26 Oct 2010 1,548
2 BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene María Dornelas et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography Open access270 authors Jul 2018 457
3 Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 21 Mar 2012 457
4 Protected area targets post-2020 Piero Visconti, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Thomas M. Brooks et al. · Science Open access 11 Apr 2019 419
5 Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat Michelle S. Ward et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution 20 Jul 2020 417
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at BirdLife Australia?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Invasive Species, Avian Ecology, Migration Patterns, Biodiversity, Population Dynamics 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 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 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 Change26▲ 11×35 topics
  2. Habitat Selection15▲ 233×2 topics
  3. Invasive Species11▲ 30×13 topics
  4. Avian Ecology10▲ 550×1 topic
  5. Migration Patterns10▲ 462×1 topic
  6. Biodiversity10▲ 15×11 topics
  7. Population Dynamics9▲ 40×9 topics
  8. Conservation9▲ 24×14 topics
  9. Conservation Biology8▲ 80×4 topics
  10. Sustainability6▲ 2.6×12 topics
  11. Trophic Cascades4▲ 57×2 topics
  12. Animal Movement4▲ 97×1 topic
  13. Occupancy Rates4▲ 97×1 topic
  14. Ecological Niche4▲ 73×1 topic
  15. Species Distribution Modeling4▲ 73×1 topic
  16. Ecosystem4▲ 40×2 topics
  17. Ethical Considerations4▲ 12×6 topics
  18. Habitat Fragmentation3▲ 17×5 topics
  19. Species Richness3▲ 59×2 topics
  20. Predator-Prey Interactions3▲ 43×2 topics
  21. Acoustic Communication3▲ 62×3 topics
  22. Resilience3▲ 6.2×3 topics
  23. Biological Invasions2▲ 31×3 topics
  24. Biodiversity Conservation2▲ 7.3×5 topics
  25. Molecular Phylogeny2▲ 16×4 topics
  26. Global Change2▲ 9.4×3 topics
  27. Island Ecosystems2▲ 80×2 topics
  28. Mast Seeding2▲ 127×1 topic
  29. Rodent Eradication2▲ 127×1 topic
  30. Avian Vocal Communication2▲ 141×1 topic
  31. Birdsong2▲ 141×1 topic
  32. Sagebrush2▲ 152×1 topic
  33. Wildlife Habitat2▲ 152×1 topic
  34. Adaptive Evolution2▲ 37×2 topics
  35. Community Ecology2▲ 24×1 topic
  36. Functional Diversity2▲ 37×1 topic
  37. Transplantation2▲ 20×3 topics
  38. Ecosystem Resilience2▲ 12×4 topics
  39. Kidney Transplantation2▲ 31×2 topics
  40. Ecosystem Engineering2▲ 58×2 topics

Which research topics does BirdLife Australia publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Avian ecology and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Avian ecology and behavior10Avian ecology and behavior: 10 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…4Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 4 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…4Species Distribution and Climate Change: 4 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 2 fractional worksAnimal Vocal Communication and Behavior: 2 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 2 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 2 fractional worksConservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education: 2 fractional worksEcology and biodiversity studies: 2 fractional worksOrgan Donation and Transplantation: 2 fractional works
EcologyEcological ModelingDevelopmental BiologyNature and Landscape Conservation2 others

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

  1. 1 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 10 works
  2. 2 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 4 works
  3. 3 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 4 works
  4. 4 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 2 works
  5. 5 Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior Developmental Biology 2 works
  6. 6 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 2 works
  7. 7 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  8. 8 Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
  9. 9 Ecology and biodiversity studies Ecology 2 works
  10. 10 Organ Donation and Transplantation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 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 available52.3%not open47.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.5%domestic only74.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has BirdLife Australia's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 BirdLife Australia as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00027% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%BirdLife Australia0.00056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of BirdLife Australia over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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