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Ecology Action

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Research works
5
▼ 52% vs 2018-21
Citations
27
5.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
Ecology Action

Not ranked overall: Ecology Action 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 Ecology Action work in?

In all years, 54% of research at Ecology Action is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (47%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (19%), Health Professions (9%).

Physical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 53.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 46.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 22.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 9.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 7.3% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 7.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 23.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 18.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 12.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 6.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 6.2% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.2% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 9.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 9.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workALL ITS WORKEcology Action5fractional works, all years
Life Sciences23%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences12%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science246.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences07.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences118.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology02.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting06.2%
    2. Social Sciences06.2%
    1. Health Professions09.4%
    2. Nursing01.3%
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 Ecology Action?

The most cited paper from Ecology Action is "Response to Comment on "Declining Wild Salmon Populations in Relation to Parasites from Farm Salmon"" (Martin Krkošek, Jennifer S. Ford, Alexandra B. Morton et al., 2008), with 14 citations. Next come "Canada and the Precautionary Principle/Approach in Ocean and Coastal Management: Wading and Wandering in Tricky Currents" (11) and "Atlantic salmon survival at sea: temporal changes that lack regional synchrony" (6).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Response to Comment on "Declining Wild Salmon Populations in Relation to Parasites from Farm Salmon" Martin Krkošek, Jennifer S. Ford, Alexandra B. Morton et al. · Science 18 Dec 2008 14
2 Canada and the Precautionary Principle/Approach in Ocean and Coastal Management: Wading and Wandering in Tricky Currents David VanderZwaag, Susanna Fuller, Ransom A. Myers · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2002 11
3 Atlantic salmon survival at sea: temporal changes that lack regional synchrony Maria Tirronen, Jeffrey A. Hutchings, Sebastián A. Pardo et al. · Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Open access 20 May 2022 6
4 A field assessment of residential laundry to landscape greywater quality in the San Francisco Bay area Sara Khosrowshahi Asl, Katherine Kao Cushing, Rachel L. O’Malley et al. · Water Policy Open access 21 Jul 2023 5
5 Conserving corals in Atlantic Canada: a historical perspective Mark Butler Book chapter 2005 5
All 8 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Ecology Action publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Wastewater Treatment and Reuse and Urban Stormwater Management Solutions.

Marine and fisheries research: 0 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 0 fractional worksWastewater Treatment and Reuse: 0 fractional worksUrban Stormwater Management Solutions: 0 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeOceanographyIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringEnvironmental Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  2. 2 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 0 works
  3. 3 Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Urban Stormwater Management Solutions Environmental Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 0 works
  6. 6 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  7. 7 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  8. 8 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Land Use and Ecosystem Services 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 available37.2%not open62.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.1%domestic only65.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ecology Action's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 52% 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 Ecology Action as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000037% in 2023.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Ecology Action0.0000019% in 202520102020

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

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