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Buglife

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Research works
16
▼ 45% vs 2018-21
Citations
407
25.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
76%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Buglife

Not ranked overall: Buglife 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 Buglife work in?

In all years, 64% of research at Buglife is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (56%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (23%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 63.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 56.0% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 37.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 9.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 29.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 23.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 16.2% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKBuglife16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences64%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences5%

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 Science956.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.6%
    3. Engineering03.1%
    4. Computer Science00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences423.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.6%
    3. Neuroscience01.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.5%
    1. Psychology13.6%
    2. Social Sciences01.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Medicine02.1%
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: 2.40× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.56× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 10.01× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 1.61× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 10.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science10.01×2 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences7.56×0 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.06×1 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.40×0 works
  5. Psychology1.61×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.39×0 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.15×0 works
  8. Computer Science0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Buglife?

Ranked on the quality score, Craig R. Macadam lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Buglife.

  1. 1 Craig R. Macadam United Kingdom · #1,651,793 worldwide 1.6k citations · 58 works
All ranked researchers at Buglife

What are the most cited papers from Buglife?

The most cited paper from Buglife is "Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites" (Noa Simon‐Delso et al., 2014), with 1,834 citations. Next come "Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates" (975) and "A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna" (602).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites Noa Simon‐Delso et al. · Environmental Science and Pollution Research Open access 18 Sep 2014 1,834
2 Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates Lennard Pisa, Vanessa Amaral-Rogers, Luc Belzunces et al. · Environmental Science and Pollution Research Open access 15 Sep 2014 975
3 A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna Liam M Crowley, Heather Allen, Ian Barnes et al. · Wellcome Open Research Open access 20 Mar 2023 602
4 The identification of 100 ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK William J. Sutherland et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology Open access 30 May 2006 478
5 International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery Jeffrey A. Harvey et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution Open access 6 Jan 2020 302
All 48 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Buglife publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal and Plant Science Education and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology: 0 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 0 fractional worksAnimal and Plant Science Education: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksScarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography: 0 fractional worksInvertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology: 0 fractional worksSpider Taxonomy and Beha…0Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies: 0 fractional worksArchaeology and Natural …0Archaeology and Natural History: 0 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and…0Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental DNA in Bio…0Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies: 0 fractional works
EcologyEcological ModelingSocial PsychologyNature and Landscape Conservation4 others

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

  1. 1 Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology Ecology 0 works
  2. 2 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 0 works
  3. 3 Animal and Plant Science Education Social Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  5. 5 Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography Paleontology 0 works
  6. 6 Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  7. 7 Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies Genetics 0 works
  8. 8 Archaeology and Natural History Anthropology 0 works
  9. 9 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 0 works
  10. 10 Environmental DNA in Biodiversity 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 available76.5%not open23.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.5%domestic only85.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Buglife's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% 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 Buglife as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000089% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Buglife0.000011% in 202520102020

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

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