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Blue Resources Trust

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Research works
17
▲ 56% vs 2018-21
Citations
331
19.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
71%
world 40%
International
56%
world 18%
Blue Resources Trust

Not ranked overall: Blue Resources Trust is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Blue Resources Trust work in?

In all years, 49% of research at Blue Resources Trust is in Physical Sciences, 33% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (37%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (19%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 49.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 36.7% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 15.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 12.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.1% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 32.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 18.7% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 14.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKBlue ResourcesTrust17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences33%Physical Sciences49%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences14%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science636.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences17.1%
    3. Engineering13.9%
    4. Computer Science00.6%
    5. Energy00.4%
    6. Materials Science00.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences318.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology18.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology16.0%
    1. Social Sciences18.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance16.0%
    1. Medicine13.6%
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: 5.29× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.17× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.65× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.30× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.29× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 1.23× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5.29×2 works
  2. Environmental Science5.29×2 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.30×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology3.65×0 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.17×1 works
  6. Social Sciences1.23×1 works
  7. Energy0.80×0 works
  8. Engineering0.49×1 works
  9. Materials Science0.21×0 works
  10. Computer Science0.14×0 works
  11. Medicine0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Blue Resources Trust?

Ranked on the quality score, Daniel Fernando, Akshay Tanna and Nishan Perera lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Blue Resources Trust.

  1. 1 Daniel Fernando Sri Lanka · #265,739 worldwide 4.2k citations · 114 works
  2. 2 Akshay Tanna Sri Lanka · #1,081,119 worldwide 537 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Nishan Perera Sri Lanka · #1,350,182 worldwide 787 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Susantha Udagedara Sri Lanka · #3,202,619 worldwide 293 citations · 52 works
All ranked researchers at Blue Resources Trust

What are the most cited papers from Blue Resources Trust?

The most cited paper from Blue Resources Trust is "Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis" (Nicholas K. Dulvy et al., 2021), with 1,082 citations. Next come "Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays" (824) and "Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks" (325).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis Nicholas K. Dulvy et al. · Current Biology Open access 6 Sep 2021 1,082
2 Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays Nathan Pacoureau, Cassandra L. Rigby, Peter M. Kyne et al. · Nature 27 Jan 2021 824
3 Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks M. Aaron MacNeil et al. · Nature Open access123 authors 22 Jul 2020 325
4 Research Priorities to Support Effective Manta and Devil Ray Conservation Joshua David Stewart et al. · Frontiers in Marine Science Open access 18 Sep 2018 188
5 Half a century of rising extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays C. Samantha Sherman et al. · Nature Communications Open access 17 Jan 2023 152
All 85 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Blue Resources Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Agricultural risk and resilience, Disaster Management and Resilience, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration.

Agricultural risk and resilience: 1 fractional worksDisaster Management and Resilience: 1 fractional worksPlant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases: 1 fractional worksClimate Change, Adaptation, Migration: 0 fractional worksInfrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis: 0 fractional worksMarine and coastal plant biology: 0 fractional worksCoastal wetland ecosyste…0Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics: 0 fractional worksMycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions: 0 fractional worksIchthyology and Marine Biology: 0 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 0 fractional works
Soil ScienceSociology and Political ScienceCell BiologyCivil and Structural Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Agricultural risk and resilience Soil Science 1 works
  2. 2 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Cell Biology 1 works
  4. 4 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Marine and coastal plant biology Oceanography 0 works
  7. 7 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions Plant Science 0 works
  9. 9 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  10. 10 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 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 available70.9%not open29.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors56.2%domestic only43.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Blue Resources Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 56% higher 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 Blue Resources Trust as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000073% in 2024.

still counting0.000025%0.000050%0.000075%Blue Resources Trust0.000029% in 20252020

Fractional works of Blue Resources Trust over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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