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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

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Research works
18
▲ 49% vs 2018-21
Citations
217
12.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Not ranked overall: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Bristol Museum & Art Gallery work in?

In all years, 46% of research at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is in Physical Sciences, 46% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (31%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (27%), Environmental Science (19%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 46.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 27.3% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 15.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 18.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 46.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 30.7% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 11.5% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 15.0% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workALL ITS WORKBristol Museum &Art Gallery18fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences46%Social Sciences46%

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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences527.3%
    2. Environmental Science318.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities530.7%
    2. Social Sciences315.0%
    3. Psychology00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.2%
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: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 21.49× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 3.29× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceArts and Humanities: 7.16× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesSocial Sciences: 2.04× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 21.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.49×1 works
  2. Arts and Humanities7.16×1 works
  3. Environmental Science3.29×0 works
  4. Social Sciences2.04×1 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.36×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.32×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery?

Ranked on the quality score, L. W. G. Malcolm and E. Wilson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

  1. 1 L. W. G. Malcolm United Kingdom · #2,662,757 worldwide 42 citations · 25 works
  2. 2 E. Wilson United Kingdom · #3,185,105 worldwide 57 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

What are the most cited papers from Bristol Museum & Art Gallery?

The most cited paper from Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is "MARINE REPTILES FROM THE UPPER LIAS (LOWER TOARCIAN, LOWER JURASSIC) OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST" (Michael J. Benton, Michael Alan Taylor, 1984), with 73 citations. Next come "Excavations at Threave Castle, Galloway, 1974–78" (41) and "Excavations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Complex at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1947–1952 and 1981" (37).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MARINE REPTILES FROM THE UPPER LIAS (LOWER TOARCIAN, LOWER JURASSIC) OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST Michael J. Benton, Michael Alan Taylor · Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society Feb 1984 73
2 Excavations at Threave Castle, Galloway, 1974–78 George L. Good, Christopher Tabraham · Medieval Archaeology 1981 41
3 Excavations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Complex at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1947–1952 and 1981 Alasdair Whittle, R. J. C. Atkinson, Richard Leon Chambers et al. · Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 1992 37
4 Beginning of Mesozoic marine overstep of the Mendips: The Rhaetian and its fauna at Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, Somerset, UK James A. Ronan, Christopher John Duffin, Claudia Hildebrandt et al. · Proceedings of the Geologists Association 28 May 2020 19
5 Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Westbury Garden Cliff, near Gloucester, UK H. V. Williams, Christopher John Duffin, Claudia Hildebrandt et al. · Proceedings of the Geologists Association 2 Feb 2022 14
All 31 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Bristol Museum & Art Gallery publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Museums and Cultural Heritage, Geographies of human-animal interactions, 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Museums and Cultural Her…0Museums and Cultural Heritage: 0 fractional worksGeographies of human-ani…0Geographies of human-animal interactions: 0 fractional works3D Surveying and Cultura…03D Surveying and Cultural Heritage: 0 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversi…0Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 0 fractional worksArchaeological Research …0Archaeological Research and Protection: 0 fractional worksAnthropological Studies …0Anthropological Studies and Insights: 0 fractional worksAsian American and Pacific Histories: 0 fractional worksArt, Technology, and Culture: 0 fractional worksFreshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology: 0 fractional worksIchthyology and Marine Biology: 0 fractional works
MuseologyGeography, Planning and DevelopmentGeologyGlobal and Planetary Change6 others

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

  1. 1 Museums and Cultural Heritage Museology 0 works
  2. 2 Geographies of human-animal interactions Geography, Planning and Development 0 works
  3. 3 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage Geology 0 works
  4. 4 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  5. 5 Archaeological Research and Protection Space and Planetary Science 0 works
  6. 6 Anthropological Studies and Insights Anthropology 0 works
  7. 7 Asian American and Pacific Histories Cultural Studies 0 works
  8. 8 Art, Technology, and Culture Visual Arts and Performing Arts 0 works
  9. 9 Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available31.3%not open68.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.1%domestic only83.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% 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 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000061% in 2023.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Bristol Museum & Art Gallery0.0000024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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