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Denver Botanic Gardens

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Research works
81
▲ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.3k
16.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Denver Botanic Gardens

Not ranked overall: Denver Botanic Gardens 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 Denver Botanic Gardens work in?

In all years, 63% of research at Denver Botanic Gardens is in Life Sciences, 28% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (50%), Environmental Science (25%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 51 fractional works · 63.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 40 fractional works · 49.8% of its workPlant Science: 21 fractional works · 25.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 14 fractional works · 16.9% of its workInsect Science: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 13.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 23 fractional works · 28.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 20 fractional works · 25.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 7 fractional works · 9.2% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDenver BotanicGardens81fractional works, all years
Life Sciences63%Physical Sciences28%Health Sciences5%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 4 domains and 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4049.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1113.0%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Environmental Science2025.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.7%
    3. Chemistry11.1%
    4. Engineering00.3%
    5. Computer Science00.1%
    6. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Medicine34.3%
    2. Nursing00.6%
    1. Arts and Humanities10.8%
    2. Psychology10.8%
    3. Social Sciences10.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
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: 9.56× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.63× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.67× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 6.06× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 9.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9.56×9 works
  2. Environmental Science6.06×6 works
  3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.67×0 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.63×3 works
  5. Psychology0.63×0 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology0.35×0 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.35×0 works
  8. Medicine0.26×1 works
  9. Chemistry0.18×0 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.12×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.08×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Denver Botanic Gardens?

Ranked on the quality score, Andrew W. Wilson, Christina Alba and Rebecca A. Hufft lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Denver Botanic Gardens.

  1. 1 Andrew W. Wilson United States · #1,686,515 worldwide 3.5k citations · 81 works
  2. 2 Christina Alba United States · #2,441,831 worldwide 1.1k citations · 47 works
  3. 3 Rebecca A. Hufft United States · #3,055,700 worldwide 311 citations · 22 works
  4. 4 Sarada Krishnan United States · #4,171,238 worldwide 571 citations · 71 works
  5. 5 Jennifer Ramp Neale United States · #4,342,468 worldwide 180 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 David Mitchel United States · #4,389,662 worldwide 176 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Denver Botanic Gardens

What are the most cited papers from Denver Botanic Gardens?

The most cited paper from Denver Botanic Gardens is "A Universal Probe Set for Targeted Sequencing of 353 Nuclear Genes from Any Flowering Plant Designed Using k-Medoids Clustering" (Matthew G. Johnson, Lisa Pokorny, Steven Dodsworth et al., 2018), with 638 citations. Next come "Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity" (461) and "A Comprehensive Phylogenomic Platform for Exploring the Angiosperm Tree of Life" (328).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Universal Probe Set for Targeted Sequencing of 353 Nuclear Genes from Any Flowering Plant Designed Using k-Medoids Clustering Matthew G. Johnson, Lisa Pokorny, Steven Dodsworth et al. · Systematic Biology Open access 7 Dec 2018 638
2 Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity Colin K. Khoury, Stephen B. Brush, Denise E. Costich et al. · New Phytologist Open access 13 Sep 2021 461
3 A Comprehensive Phylogenomic Platform for Exploring the Angiosperm Tree of Life William J. Baker et al. · Systematic Biology Open access 11 May 2021 328
4 Plant conservation genetics in a changing world Andrea T. Kramer, Kayri Havens · Trends in Plant Science Review 11 Sep 2009 280
5 Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation SCOTT A. THOMSON et al. · PLoS Biology Open access184 authors 14 Mar 2018 268
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Denver Botanic Gardens?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Climate Change, Conservation, Habitat Fragmentation, Global Change, Biogeography and Ecosystem Services.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Biodiversity21▲ 35×14 topics
  2. Invasive Species20▲ 43×14 topics
  3. Climate Change18▲ 8.3×30 topics
  4. Conservation14▲ 37×10 topics
  5. Habitat Fragmentation14▲ 58×4 topics
  6. Global Change13▲ 51×4 topics
  7. Biogeography11▲ 41×12 topics
  8. Ecosystem Services10▲ 35×8 topics
  9. Ecosystem10▲ 83×3 topics
  10. Phylogeny8▲ 56×8 topics
  11. Antioxidant8▲ 14×11 topics
  12. Species Richness7▲ 112×2 topics
  13. Biological Invasions7▲ 78×2 topics
  14. Community Ecology7▲ 78×1 topic
  15. Functional Diversity7▲ 124×1 topic
  16. Medicinal Plants7▲ 23×11 topics
  17. Plant-Animal Interactions6▲ 65×1 topic
  18. Pollinator Decline6▲ 65×1 topic
  19. Antioxidant Activity6▲ 12×15 topics
  20. Phylogenetic Analysis6▲ 18×10 topics
  21. Cyperus5▲ 312×1 topic
  22. essential oil5▲ 312×1 topic
  23. Ecosystem Functioning5▲ 27×4 topics
  24. Biodiversity Conservation4▲ 20×8 topics
  25. DNA Barcoding4▲ 33×6 topics
  26. Mycorrhizal Fungi4▲ 69×2 topics
  27. Taxonomy4▲ 30×8 topics
  28. Fungal Diversity4▲ 103×1 topic
  29. Molecular Phylogeny4▲ 21×6 topics
  30. Plant Interactions4▲ 114×1 topic
  31. Host Specificity3▲ 31×2 topics
  32. Population Dynamics3▲ 13×5 topics
  33. Fungal Pathogens3▲ 23×3 topics
  34. Evolution3▲ 13×7 topics
  35. Endophytic Fungi3▲ 30×2 topics
  36. Sagebrush3▲ 154×1 topic
  37. Wildlife Habitat3▲ 154×1 topic
  38. Conservation Biology3▲ 29×2 topics
  39. Genomic Characterization3▲ 20×1 topic
  40. Plant Pathogenesis3▲ 42×1 topic

Which research topics does Denver Botanic Gardens publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.

Ecology and Vegetation D…2Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 2 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife M…1Rangeland and Wildlife Management: 1 fractional worksBotany, Ecology, and Tax…1Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies: 1 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 1 fractional worksBotanical Research and Chemistry: 1 fractional worksYersinia bacterium, plag…1Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research: 1 fractional worksMycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions: 1 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 1 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 0 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcologyPlant Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  3. 3 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 1 works
  4. 4 Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies Plant Science 1 works
  5. 5 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 1 works
  6. 6 Botanical Research and Chemistry Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  7. 7 Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research Genetics 1 works
  8. 8 Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions Plant Science 1 works
  9. 9 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 1 works
  10. 10 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 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 available59.3%not open40.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.8%domestic only79.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Denver Botanic Gardens's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher 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 Denver Botanic Gardens as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00010% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Denver Botanic Gardens0.000046% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Denver Botanic Gardens over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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