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Bumblebee Conservation Trust

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Research works
9
▼ 12% vs 2018-21
Citations
176
19.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
70%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Not ranked overall: Bumblebee Conservation 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 Bumblebee Conservation Trust work in?

In all years, 76% of research at Bumblebee Conservation Trust is in Life Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (59%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Environmental Science (15%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 7 fractional works · 76.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 58.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 25.3% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 18.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 10.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 17.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 17.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 20.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 14.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 10.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBumblebeeConservation…9fractional works, all years
Life Sciences76%Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences3%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences558.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology217.8%
    1. Environmental Science114.8%
    2. Computer Science15.6%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    1. Psychology02.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities00.2%
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: 14.88× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 5.13× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksArts and Humanities1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 14.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.88×2 works
  2. Environmental Science5.13×1 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.40×0 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.37×0 works
  5. Arts and Humanities0.20×0 works
  6. Computer Science0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Bumblebee Conservation Trust?

Ranked on the quality score, Richard Comont lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

  1. 1 Richard Comont United Kingdom · #2,516,070 worldwide 1.2k citations · 65 works
All ranked researchers at Bumblebee Conservation Trust

What are the most cited papers from Bumblebee Conservation Trust?

The most cited paper from Bumblebee Conservation Trust is "The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis: global perspectives on invasion history and ecology" (Helen Elizabeth Roy et al., 2016), with 354 citations. Next come "Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself" (114) and "Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise" (94).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis: global perspectives on invasion history and ecology Helen Elizabeth Roy et al. · Biological Invasions Open access 23 Mar 2016 354
2 Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself Tom D. Breeze et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology Open access 7 Oct 2020 114
3 Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise Lynn V. Dicks et al. · Insect Conservation and Diversity 12 Oct 2012 94
4 Evaluating the ability of citizen scientists to identify bumblebee (Bombus) species Steven Falk, Gemma L. Foster, Richard Comont et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 24 Jun 2019 81
5 Mapping species distributions: A comparison of skilled naturalist and lay citizen science recording René van der Wal, H Anderson, Annie Robinson et al. · AMBIO Open access 27 Oct 2015 62
All 29 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Bumblebee Conservation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Plant and animal studies, Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health, Insect and Pesticide Research and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Plant and animal studies0Plant and animal studies: 0 fractional worksRabbits: Nutrition, Repr…0Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health: 0 fractional worksInsect and Pesticide Res…0Insect and Pesticide Research: 0 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…0Species Distribution and Climate Change: 0 fractional worksMeat and Animal Product …0Meat and Animal Product Quality: 0 fractional worksAnimal Nutrition and Phy…0Animal Nutrition and Physiology: 0 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 0 fractional worksInsect-Plant Interactions and Control: 0 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 0 fractional worksInsect Resistance and Genetics: 0 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAnimal Science and ZoologyInsect ScienceEcological Modeling3 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  2. 2 Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  3. 3 Insect and Pesticide Research Insect Science 0 works
  4. 4 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 0 works
  5. 5 Meat and Animal Product Quality Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  6. 6 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  7. 7 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  8. 8 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control Insect Science 0 works
  9. 9 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Insect Resistance and Genetics Molecular Biology 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 available69.8%not open30.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.1%domestic only82.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Bumblebee Conservation Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% 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 Bumblebee Conservation Trust as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000054% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%Bumblebee Conservation Trust0.000018% in 20252020

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

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