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EcoCiencia

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Research works
16
▲ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
525
32.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
61%
world 18%
EcoCiencia

Not ranked overall: EcoCiencia 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 EcoCiencia work in?

In all years, 48% of research at EcoCiencia is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (40%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (18%), Social Sciences (11%).

Physical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 48.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 40.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 17.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 9.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 29.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 22.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 18.4% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKEcoCiencia16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences22%Physical Sciences48%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences29%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science740.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.9%
    3. Computer Science01.5%
    4. Engineering01.4%
    1. Social Sciences211.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities16.1%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance15.0%
    4. Psychology13.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting13.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences318.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.4%
    3. Neuroscience01.2%
    1. Veterinary00.4%
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: 2.32× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 9.13× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 6.93× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.49× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 6.76× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.89× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 9.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences9.13×0 works
  2. Environmental Science6.93×1 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance6.76×0 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting4.49×0 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.32×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.89×0 works

What are the most cited papers from EcoCiencia?

The most cited paper from EcoCiencia is "The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas" (Wayne Walker, Seth R. Gorelik, Alessandro Baccini et al., 2020), with 347 citations. Next come "Decentralized payments for environmental services: The cases of Pimampiro and PROFAFOR in Ecuador" (327) and "An ecosystem risk assessment of temperate and tropical forests of the Americas with an outlook on future conservation strategies" (112).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The role of forest conversion, degradation, and disturbance in the carbon dynamics of Amazon indigenous territories and protected areas Wayne Walker, Seth R. Gorelik, Alessandro Baccini et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 27 Jan 2020 347
2 Decentralized payments for environmental services: The cases of Pimampiro and PROFAFOR in Ecuador Sven Wunder, Montserrat Albán · Ecological Economics 2 Jan 2008 327
3 An ecosystem risk assessment of temperate and tropical forests of the Americas with an outlook on future conservation strategies José Rafael Ferrer-Paris, Irene Zager, David A. Keith et al. · Conservation Letters Open access 15 Jan 2019 112
4 Range fragmentation in the spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus in the northern Andes Gustavo H. Kattan, Olga Lucía Hernández-Manrique, Isaac R. Goldstein et al. · Oryx Open access Apr 2004 96
5 Response of vascular epiphyte diversity to different land-use intensities in a neotropical montane wet forest Mario L. Larrea, Florian Werner · Forest Ecology and Management 24 Sep 2010 93
All 46 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does EcoCiencia publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Business, Education, Mathematics Research, Business, Innovation, and Economy, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management and Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy.

Business, Education, Mat…0Business, Education, Mathematics Research: 0 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, an…0Business, Innovation, and Economy: 0 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 0 fractional worksCocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Monitoring…0Environmental Monitoring and Data Management: 0 fractional worksAfrican Botany and Ecology Studies: 0 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 0 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 0 fractional worksLatin American Cultural Politics: 0 fractional works
AccountingEconomics and EconometricsGlobal and Planetary ChangeHorticulture5 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 0 works
  2. 2 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  4. 4 Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy Horticulture 0 works
  5. 5 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  6. 6 Environmental Monitoring and Data Management Geology 0 works
  7. 7 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 0 works
  8. 8 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 0 works
  10. 10 Latin American Cultural Politics Anthropology 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 available59.0%not open41.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors61.1%domestic only38.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has EcoCiencia'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 EcoCiencia as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

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Fractional works of EcoCiencia over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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