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Institution · Peterborough · United Kingdom

British Ornithologists Union

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Research works
15
▲ 255% vs 2018-21
Citations
205
13.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
64%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
British Ornithologists Union

Not ranked overall: British Ornithologists Union 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 British Ornithologists Union work in?

In all years, 67% of research at British Ornithologists Union is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (64%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 66.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 64.3% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 40.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 9.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 16.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 12.1% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 16.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKBritishOrnithologists…15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences16%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1064.3%
    2. Chemistry01.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences212.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology13.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.1%
    1. Social Sciences17.0%
    2. Psychology16.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.2%
    4. Decision Sciences00.7%
    1. Medicine00.3%
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.

Who are the top researchers at British Ornithologists Union?

Ranked on the quality score, James Edmund Harting and Steve Dudley lead among researchers whose main affiliation is British Ornithologists Union.

  1. 1 James Edmund Harting United Kingdom · #2,507,231 worldwide 42 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Steve Dudley United Kingdom · #4,262,194 worldwide 163 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at British Ornithologists Union

What are the most cited papers from British Ornithologists Union?

The most cited paper from British Ornithologists Union is "FACTORS DETERMINING THE BREEDING SEASONS OF BIRDS: AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW" (A. Landsborough Thomson, 1950), with 91 citations. Next come "Birds killed in the Torrey Canyon Disaster" (64) and "Tweeting birds: online mentions predict future citations in ornithology" (48).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 FACTORS DETERMINING THE BREEDING SEASONS OF BIRDS: AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW A. Landsborough Thomson · Ibis Apr 1950 91
2 Birds killed in the Torrey Canyon Disaster William R.P. Bourne, J. D. PARRACK, G. R. Potts · Nature Sep 1967 64
3 Tweeting birds: online mentions predict future citations in ornithology Tom Finch, Nina J. O’Hanlon, Steve Dudley · Royal Society Open Science Open access Nov 2017 48
4 Ensuring tests of conservation interventions build on existing literature William J. Sutherland et al. · Conservation Biology Open access Aug 2020 38
5 The British List: A Checklist of Birds of Britain (8th edition) Andrew H. J. Harrop, J. Martin Collinson, Steve Dudley et al. · Ibis Open access 18 Jun 2013 23
All 25 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does British Ornithologists Union publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Insects and Parasite Interactions, Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation.

Insects and Parasite Int…1Insects and Parasite Interactions: 1 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior0Avian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behav…0Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 0 fractional worksWildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation: 0 fractional worksTardigrade Biology and Ecology: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental and Biolog…0Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones: 0 fractional worksPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 0 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 0 fractional worksInvertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology: 0 fractional works
Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisEcologyEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law2 others

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

  1. 1 Insects and Parasite Interactions Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  2. 2 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  3. 3 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 0 works
  4. 4 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  5. 5 Tardigrade Biology and Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  6. 6 Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  7. 7 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 0 works
  8. 8 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 0 works
  9. 9 Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  10. 10 Forest Insect Ecology and Management 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 available64.4%not open35.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.1%domestic only85.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has British Ornithologists Union's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 255% 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 British Ornithologists Union as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000027% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%British Ornithologists Union0.000017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of British Ornithologists Union over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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