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Coastal Watershed Council

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Research works
3
▲ 475% vs 2018-21
Citations
14
5.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
53%
world 18%
Coastal Watershed Council

Not ranked overall: Coastal Watershed Council 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 Coastal Watershed Council work in?

In all years, 83% of research at Coastal Watershed Council is in Physical Sciences, 12% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (71%), Social Sciences (12%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 83.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 70.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 12.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 12.5% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCoastal WatershedCouncil2fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences83%Social Sciences12%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 5 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science270.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences08.3%
    3. Engineering04.2%
    1. Social Sciences012.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences04.2%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Coastal Watershed Council?

The most cited paper from Coastal Watershed Council is "Social Infrastructure to Integrate Science and Practice: the Experience of the Long Tom Watershed Council" (Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Dana C. Dedrick, C S Smith et al., 2009), with 43 citations. Next come "Blending I ndigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in K aruk A boriginal T erritory" (30) and "Threat assessment for Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) in the Salish Sea" (8).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social Infrastructure to Integrate Science and Practice: the Experience of the Long Tom Watershed Council Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Dana C. Dedrick, C S Smith et al. · Ecology and Society Open access 2009 43
2 Blending I ndigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in K aruk A boriginal T erritory Skye M. Greenler, Frank K. Lake, William Tripp et al. · Ecological Applications Open access 15 Apr 2024 30
3 Threat assessment for Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) in the Salish Sea Jacqueline R. Huard et al. · Frontiers in Marine Science Open access 30 Oct 2024 8
4 Lessons learned from community and citizen science monitoring on the Elwha River restoration project M. V. Eitzel, Ryan Meyer, Sarah A. Morley et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Open access 25 Sep 2023 4
5 Salmon, forage fish, and kelp Anne Shaffer, Dave Parks, Erik R. Schoen et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Open access Jun 2019 2
All 7 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Coastal Watershed Council publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fire effects on ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Disaster Management and Resilience and Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights.

Fire effects on ecosystems0Fire effects on ecosystems: 0 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation D…0Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 0 fractional worksDisaster Management and …0Disaster Management and Resilience: 0 fractional worksIndigenous Health, Educa…0Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights: 0 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife M…0Rangeland and Wildlife Management: 0 fractional worksPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology: 0 fractional worksBotany and Plant Ecology Studies: 0 fractional worksEcology and biodiversity studies: 0 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeNature and Landscape ConservationSociology and Political ScienceHealth2 others

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

  1. 1 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  2. 2 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  3. 3 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights Health 0 works
  5. 5 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 0 works
  6. 6 Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Botany and Plant Ecology Studies Plant Science 0 works
  8. 8 Ecology and biodiversity studies Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies Plant Science 0 works
  10. 10 Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond 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 available53.9%not open46.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors52.6%domestic only47.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Coastal Watershed Council's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 475% higher than in 2018-2021.

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