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Centre For Wildlife Studies

In research, Centre For Wildlife Studies stands highest in Physical Sciences (#16,578 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology (Ecology is 33.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#21,825
of 22,385 · #31,856 all time
Rank in India
#1,528
of 1,562
Research works
232
▲ 46% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.3k
18.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.91×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
56%
world 40%
International
39%
world 18%
Centre For Wildlife Studies

What is Centre For Wildlife Studies known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #16,578 of 17,446 11.3%125

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Centre For Wildlife Studies sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Centre For Wildlife Studies work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Centre For Wildlife Studies is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (44%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 47 fractional works · 51.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 40 fractional works · 44.4% of its workEcology: 24 fractional works · 26.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 5.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 4 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 27 fractional works · 29.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 14.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 11.7% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 5.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 4.4% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 9.9% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 9.2% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVeterinary: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSmall Animals: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCentre ForWildlife Studies91fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences52%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences10%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science4044.4%
    2. Engineering22.1%
    3. Computer Science22.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.4%
    5. Chemistry10.6%
    6. Materials Science00.6%
    7. Mathematics00.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1314.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1111.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology32.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Psychology44.1%
    2. Social Sciences33.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.1%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    5. Decision Sciences00.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    1. Medicine56.0%
    2. Veterinary32.9%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    4. Health Professions00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Centre For Wildlife Studies specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology takes 33.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EcologySubfield · 24.2 works34×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 3.05× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.18× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.82× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 8.93× its world share, 40 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 5 worksMedicineNursing: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 21.70× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.36× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 21.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary21.70×3 works
  2. Environmental Science8.93×40 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.05×13 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology2.82×3 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.18×11 works
  6. Psychology1.36×4 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.91×1 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.78×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.50×1 works
  10. Chemistry0.40×1 works
  11. Nursing0.40×0 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.38×0 works
  13. Medicine0.31×5 works
  14. Social Sciences0.29×3 works
  15. Computer Science0.27×2 works
  16. Mathematics0.25×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.16×0 works
  18. Engineering0.14×2 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×0 works
  20. Neuroscience0.07×0 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.06×0 works
  22. Health Professions0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Centre For Wildlife Studies?

Ranked on the quality score, Kota Ullas Karanth, Krithi K. Karanth and Srinivas Vaidyanathan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Centre For Wildlife Studies.

  1. 1 Kota Ullas Karanth India · #99,983 worldwide 14k citations · 154 works
  2. 2 Krithi K. Karanth India · #199,758 worldwide 4.4k citations · 101 works
  3. 3 Srinivas Vaidyanathan India · #284,884 worldwide 1.8k citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Mahi Puri India · #688,270 worldwide 755 citations · 29 works
  5. 5 Thomas Robert Sharp India · #2,488,809 worldwide 1.2k citations · 73 works
  6. 6 Raman Kumar India · #2,663,721 worldwide 483 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Shashank Dalvi India · #4,540,723 worldwide 141 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Attur Shanmugam Arun India · #4,864,093 worldwide 96 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Ilayaraja Selvaraj India · #4,912,583 worldwide 11 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Arun A Sha India · #5,781,897 worldwide 46 citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at Centre For Wildlife Studies

What are the most cited papers from Centre For Wildlife Studies?

The most cited paper from Centre For Wildlife Studies is "Big Cats in Our Backyards: Persistence of Large Carnivores in a Human Dominated Landscape in India" (Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell et al., 2013), with 473 citations. Next come "ASSESSING TIGER POPULATION DYNAMICS USING PHOTOGRAPHIC CAPTURE–RECAPTURE SAMPLING" (397) and "Bayesian inference in camera trapping studies for a class of spatial capture–recapture models" (318).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Big Cats in Our Backyards: Persistence of Large Carnivores in a Human Dominated Landscape in India Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 6 Mar 2013 473
2 ASSESSING TIGER POPULATION DYNAMICS USING PHOTOGRAPHIC CAPTURE–RECAPTURE SAMPLING Kota Ullas Karanth, James David Nichols, Narayanarao Samba Kumar et al. · Ecology Nov 2006 397
3 Bayesian inference in camera trapping studies for a class of spatial capture–recapture models Jeffrey Andrew Royle, Kota Ullas Karanth, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy et al. · Ecology Nov 2009 318
4 Interactions between protected areas and their surroundings in human-dominated tropical landscapes Ruth DeFries, Krithi K. Karanth, Sajid Pareeth · Biological Conservation 15 Mar 2010 295
5 Monitoring carnivore populations at the landscape scale: occupancy modelling of tigers from sign surveys Kota Ullas Karanth, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, Narayanarao Samba Kumar et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology Open access 11 May 2011 290
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Which keywords describe research at Centre For Wildlife Studies?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Population Dynamics, Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Trophic Cascades, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Biodiversity and Conservation.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change19▲ 7.5×28 topics
  2. Population Dynamics18▲ 79×10 topics
  3. Habitat Selection15▲ 225×2 topics
  4. Trophic Cascades13▲ 157×2 topics
  5. Animal Movement13▲ 278×1 topic
  6. Occupancy Rates13▲ 278×1 topic
  7. Biodiversity13▲ 18×20 topics
  8. Conservation9▲ 22×14 topics
  9. Invasive Species8▲ 21×11 topics
  10. Conservation Biology7▲ 72×4 topics
  11. Molecular Phylogeny7▲ 46×8 topics
  12. Evolution5▲ 22×10 topics
  13. Bats4▲ 143×2 topics
  14. Habitat Fragmentation4▲ 20×4 topics
  15. Ecological Niche4▲ 66×1 topic
  16. Species Distribution Modeling4▲ 66×1 topic
  17. Biogeography3▲ 13×10 topics
  18. Echolocation3▲ 235×1 topic
  19. Hibernation3▲ 235×1 topic
  20. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 12×4 topics
  21. DNA Barcoding3▲ 20×4 topics
  22. Genetic Diversity3▲ 7.6×9 topics
  23. Spatial Patterns3▲ 34×3 topics
  24. Altruism3▲ 37×2 topics
  25. Cooperation3▲ 48×2 topics
  26. Biodiversity Conservation3▲ 7.9×9 topics
  27. Ecosystem3▲ 28×3 topics
  28. Primates3▲ 156×1 topic
  29. Social Behavior3▲ 51×1 topic
  30. Global Change3▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Predator-Prey Interactions2▲ 35×3 topics
  32. Species Richness2▲ 42×2 topics
  33. Adaptation2▲ 8.3×7 topics
  34. Habitat Connectivity2▲ 143×1 topic
  35. Road Ecology2▲ 143×1 topic
  36. Agricultural Intensification2▲ 69×2 topics
  37. Island Ecosystems2▲ 72×2 topics
  38. Land Use Change2▲ 7.9×3 topics
  39. Phylogeny2▲ 14×8 topics
  40. Avian Ecology2▲ 102×1 topic

Which research topics does Centre For Wildlife Studies publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Wildlife Ecology and Con…13Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 13 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…4Species Distribution and Climate Change: 4 fractional worksBat Biology and Ecology …3Bat Biology and Ecology Studies: 3 fractional worksPrimate Behavior and Eco…3Primate Behavior and Ecology: 3 fractional worksWildlife-Road Interactio…2Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation: 2 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 2 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 2 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 2 fractional worksRangeland Management and Livestock Ecology: 2 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 2 fractional works
EcologyEcological ModelingEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSocial Psychology3 others

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

  1. 1 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 13 works
  2. 2 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 4 works
  3. 3 Bat Biology and Ecology Studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 works
  4. 4 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 3 works
  5. 5 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 2 works
  6. 6 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 2 works
  7. 7 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 2 works
  8. 8 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  9. 9 Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
  10. 10 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 2 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 available56.1%not open43.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.0%domestic only61.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Centre For Wildlife Studies's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Centre For Wildlife Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00025% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Centre For Wildlife Studies0.00043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Centre For Wildlife Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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