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Ecotrust

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Research works
11
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
574
50.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Ecotrust

Not ranked overall: Ecotrust 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 Ecotrust work in?

In all years, 74% of research at Ecotrust is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (65%), Social Sciences (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 74.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 64.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 23.5% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 20.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 16.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 15.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKEcotrust11fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences74%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences15%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science764.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences03.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy02.4%
    4. Engineering02.2%
    5. Energy01.5%
    1. Social Sciences110.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.6%
    3. Decision Sciences01.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences17.3%
    1. Health Professions02.9%
    2. Medicine00.4%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Ecotrust?

Ranked on the quality score, Astrid J. Scholz, Charles Steinback and Sarah A. Kruse lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ecotrust.

  1. 1 Astrid J. Scholz United States · #719,432 worldwide 2.2k citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Charles Steinback United States · #1,187,509 worldwide 1.4k citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Sarah A. Kruse United States · #2,514,828 worldwide 952 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Ecotrust

What are the most cited papers from Ecotrust?

The most cited paper from Ecotrust is "Marxan with Zones: Software for optimal conservation based land- and sea-use zoning" (Matthew Watts, Ian R. Ball, Romola Stewart et al., 2009), with 565 citations. Next come "Limitations of integrated assessment models of climate change" (377) and "Impact categories for life cycle assessment research of seafood production systems: Review and prospectus" (209).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Marxan with Zones: Software for optimal conservation based land- and sea-use zoning Matthew Watts, Ian R. Ball, Romola Stewart et al. · Environmental Modelling & Software Open access 23 Jul 2009 565
2 Limitations of integrated assessment models of climate change Frank Ackerman, Stephen J. DeCanio, Richard B. Howarth et al. · Climatic Change Book chapterOpen access Apr 2009 377
3 Impact categories for life cycle assessment research of seafood production systems: Review and prospectus Nathan L. Pelletier, Nathan W. Ayer, Peter H. Tyedmers et al. · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 26 Sep 2006 209
4 Participatory socioeconomic analysis: drawing on fishermen's knowledge for marine protected area planning in California Astrid J. Scholz, Kate Bonzon, Rod M. Fujita et al. · Marine Policy 24 Oct 2003 193
5 Spatial marine zoning for fisheries and conservation Carissa J. Klein, Charles Steinback, Matthew Watts et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 20 Aug 2009 181
All 27 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Ecotrust publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Economic and Environmental Valuation, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Climate change impacts on agriculture and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Economic and Environment…0Economic and Environmental Valuation: 0 fractional worksTropical and Extratropic…0Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 0 fractional worksClimate change impacts on agriculture: 0 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment an…0Flood Risk Assessment and Management: 0 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversi…0Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 0 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…0Marine and fisheries research: 0 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Manag…0Coastal and Marine Management: 0 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosyst…0Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Conservati…0Environmental Conservation and Management: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsAtmospheric ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsGlobal and Planetary Change2 others

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

  1. 1 Economic and Environmental Valuation Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  2. 2 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 0 works
  3. 3 Climate change impacts on agriculture Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  4. 4 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  5. 5 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  6. 6 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  7. 7 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  8. 8 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Environmental Conservation and Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  10. 10 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 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 available27.1%not open72.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.4%domestic only59.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ecotrust's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% 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 Ecotrust as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000072% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%Ecotrust0.00000051% in 202520102020

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

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