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Communitech

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Research works
4
▲ 428% vs 2018-21
Citations
70
18.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
60%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Communitech

Not ranked overall: Communitech 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 Communitech work in?

In all years, 68% of research at Communitech is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (26%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Computer Science (13%).

Physical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 68.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 26.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 21.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 13.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 18.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 13.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 10.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workALL ITS WORKCommunitech4fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences68%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences18%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science126.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences121.1%
    3. Computer Science013.2%
    4. Engineering07.9%
    1. Decision Sciences07.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting05.3%
    3. Social Sciences05.3%
    1. Health Professions010.5%
    2. Medicine02.6%
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.

Computer Science: 2.43× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.51× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.96× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 1.72× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.79× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 11.92× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 11.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences11.92×0 works
  2. Environmental Science6.96×1 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.51×0 works
  4. Computer Science2.43×0 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.79×0 works
  6. Health Professions1.72×0 works
  7. Social Sciences0.59×0 works
  8. Engineering0.58×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Communitech?

The most cited paper from Communitech is "Assessment of machine learning classifiers for global lake ice cover mapping from MODIS TOA reflectance data" (Yuhao Wu, Claude Duguay, Linlin Xu, 2020), with 86 citations. Next come "Temporary stratification promotes large greenhouse gas emissions in a shallow eutrophic lake" (34) and "Temporarily summer-stratified lakes are common: profile data from 436 lakes in lowland Denmark" (16).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Assessment of machine learning classifiers for global lake ice cover mapping from MODIS TOA reflectance data Yuhao Wu, Claude Duguay, Linlin Xu · Remote Sensing of Environment 29 Nov 2020 86
2 Temporary stratification promotes large greenhouse gas emissions in a shallow eutrophic lake Thomas A. Davidson, Martin Søndergaard, Joachim Audet et al. · Biogeosciences Open access 3 Jan 2024 34
3 Temporarily summer-stratified lakes are common: profile data from 436 lakes in lowland Denmark Martin Søndergaard, Anders Nielsen, Liselotte Sander Johansson et al. · Inland Waters 3 Apr 2023 16
4 ClereMed: Lessons Learned From a Pilot Study of a Mobile Screening Tool to Identify and Support Adults Who Have Difficulty With Medication Labels Kelly Grindrod, Allison Gates, Lisa R Dolovich et al. · JMIR mhealth and uhealth Open access 15 Aug 2014 12
5 Exploring the Role of Active Assisted Living in the Continuum of Care for Older Adults: Thematic Analysis Gaya Bin Noon, Thokozani Hanjahanja-Phiri, Harishree Dave et al. · JMIR Aging Open access 5 Mar 2023 11
All 9 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Communitech publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and coastal ecosystems, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance.

Marine and coastal ecosy…0Marine and coastal ecosystems: 0 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Ap…0Blockchain Technology Applications and Security: 0 fractional worksAquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics: 0 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 0 fractional worksSmart Grid Security and Resilience: 0 fractional worksAquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior: 0 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 0 fractional worksCryptography and Data Se…0Cryptography and Data Security: 0 fractional worksdemographic modeling and climate adaptation: 0 fractional worksAuction Theory and Applications: 0 fractional works
OceanographyInformation SystemsEnvironmental ChemistryManagement Information Systems5 others

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

  1. 1 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 0 works
  2. 2 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 0 works
  3. 3 Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  4. 4 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 Smart Grid Security and Resilience Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  8. 8 Cryptography and Data Security Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  9. 9 demographic modeling and climate adaptation Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  10. 10 Auction Theory and Applications Management Science and Operations Research 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 available59.7%not open40.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.3%domestic only59.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Communitech's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 428% higher than in 2018-2021.

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