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Dryad Digital Repository

In research, Dryad Digital Repository stands highest in Social Sciences (#9,616 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#25,569
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,347
of 7,310
Research works
211
▼ 50% vs 2018-21
Citations
49
0.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
27.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
100%
world 40%
International
0%
world 18%
Dryad Digital Repository

What is Dryad Digital Repository 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
Social SciencesDomain #9,616 of 14,833 10.0%151

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Dryad Digital Repository 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 Dryad Digital Repository work in?

In all years, 72% of research at Dryad Digital Repository is in Social Sciences, 14% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (30%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (23%), Arts and Humanities (9%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 151 fractional works · 71.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 64 fractional works · 30.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 28 fractional works · 13.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 22 fractional works · 10.2% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 48 fractional works · 22.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 18 fractional works · 8.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 17 fractional works · 8.0% of its workFinance: 14 fractional works · 6.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 19 fractional works · 9.1% of its workHistory: 10 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPhilosophy: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 15 fractional works · 7.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 8 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 29 fractional works · 13.6% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 3.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeophysics: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 21 fractional works · 9.7% of its workHealth Professions: 12 fractional works · 5.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 12 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 4.1% of its workForestry: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKDryad DigitalRepository211fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences72%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences6430.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4822.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities199.1%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting157.2%
    5. Decision Sciences41.9%
    6. Psychology10.3%
    1. Engineering94.3%
    2. Environmental Science83.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences41.9%
    4. Computer Science41.9%
    5. Energy31.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    7. Chemistry00.2%
    8. Materials Science00.2%
    9. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Health Professions125.8%
    2. Medicine83.6%
    3. Nursing10.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences94.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
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 Dryad Digital Repository?

The most cited paper from Dryad Digital Repository is "Data Curation Network: A Cross-Institutional Staffing Model for Curating Research Data" (Lisa Johnston, Jake R. Carlson, Cynthia Hudson‐Vitale et al., 2018), with 59 citations. Next come "Sharing Selves: Developing an Ethical Framework for Curating Social Media Data" (23) and "Beginning to track 1000 datasets from public repositories into the published literature" (21).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Data Curation Network: A Cross-Institutional Staffing Model for Curating Research Data Lisa Johnston, Jake R. Carlson, Cynthia Hudson‐Vitale et al. · International Journal of Digital Curation Open access 26 Dec 2018 59
2 Sharing Selves: Developing an Ethical Framework for Curating Social Media Data Sara Mannheimer, Elizabeth Hull · International Journal of Digital Curation Open access 18 Apr 2018 23
3 Beginning to track 1000 datasets from public repositories into the published literature Heather Piwowar, Jonathan Dennis Carlson, Todd Vision · Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Open access 2011 21
4 Metadata Capital in a Data Repository Jane Greenberg, Shea Swauger, Elena Feinstein 2013 20
5 The location of the citation: changing practices in how publications cite original data in the Dryad Digital Repository Christine Mayo, Todd Vision, Elizabeth Hull · International Journal of Digital Curation Open access 28 Oct 2016 19
All 25 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Dryad Digital Repository?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Identity, Latin America, Economic Development, Healthcare, Democracy, Economic Growth and Human Rights.

▲ 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. Globalization27▲ 7.0×21 topics
  2. Identity20▲ 13×9 topics
  3. Latin America19▲ 47×6 topics
  4. Economic Development19▲ 13×12 topics
  5. Healthcare17▲ 11×4 topics
  6. Sustainability15▲ 4.0×19 topics
  7. Democracy15▲ 19×5 topics
  8. Economic Growth15▲ 9.3×10 topics
  9. Human Rights13▲ 7.2×13 topics
  10. Monetary Policy11▲ 19×8 topics
  11. Cultural Studies11▲ 14×2 topics
  12. Capital Flows10▲ 89×1 topic
  13. Financial Integration10▲ 108×1 topic
  14. Caribbean10▲ 260×2 topics
  15. Global Governance10▲ 21×10 topics
  16. Innovation10▲ 5.0×6 topics
  17. Financial Crisis10▲ 31×6 topics
  18. Gender9▲ 7.4×7 topics
  19. Ethnography8▲ 30×3 topics
  20. Culture8▲ 8.1×5 topics
  21. Structural Change8▲ 38×2 topics
  22. Governance8▲ 13×3 topics
  23. Politics8▲ 14×3 topics
  24. Race8▲ 30×4 topics
  25. Central America8▲ 1572×1 topic
  26. Economic Integration8▲ 115×2 topics
  27. Indigenous Peoples8▲ 169×1 topic
  28. Public Policy8▲ 8.5×5 topics
  29. Migration8▲ 12×4 topics
  30. Corruption7▲ 31×3 topics
  31. International Law7▲ 12×9 topics
  32. Neoliberalism7▲ 9.0×2 topics
  33. Political Economy7▲ 12×5 topics
  34. Global Trade6▲ 21×7 topics
  35. Decentralization6▲ 25×2 topics
  36. Agriculture6▲ 11×7 topics
  37. Economy6▲ 30×2 topics
  38. End-of-Life Care6▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Industrialization6▲ 36×2 topics
  40. Medical Ethics6▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Dryad Digital Repository publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Scientific Computing and Data Management, Research Data Management Practices, Academic Publishing and Open Access and Data Quality and Management.

Scientific Computing and…1Scientific Computing and Data Management: 1 fractional worksResearch Data Management…1Research Data Management Practices: 1 fractional worksAcademic Publishing and …1Academic Publishing and Open Access: 1 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 0 fractional worksOptics and Image Analysis: 0 fractional works
Information Systems and ManagementInformation SystemsManagement Science and Operations ResearchManagement Information Systems

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

  1. 1 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 1 works
  2. 2 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 1 works
  3. 3 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 1 works
  4. 4 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  5. 5 Optics and Image Analysis Management Information Systems 0 works
  6. 6 Radiology practices and education Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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 available99.8%not open0.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors0.5%domestic only99.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Dryad Digital Repository's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% 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 Dryad Digital Repository as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2023.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Dryad Digital Repository0.00000085% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Dryad Digital Repository over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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