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Florida Museum of Natural History

In research, Florida Museum of Natural History stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,697 of 12,888 worldwide), Environmental Science (#1,769 of 3,551 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#5,241 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology — Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 33.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,262
of 28,054 · #5,639 all time
Rank in United States
#839
of 4,192
Research works
1.9k
▲ 11% vs 2013–17
Citations
57k
30.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Florida Museum of Natural History known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #5,697 of 12,888 27.1%125 #5823
Environmental ScienceField #1,769 of 3,551 28.3%70 #1218
Life SciencesDomain #5,241 of 7,800 24.0%119 #3909
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,354 of 3,409 23.4%77 #1401

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Florida Museum of Natural History 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#5,823 #5,697
  2. Environmental Science#1,218 #1,769
  3. Life Sciences#3,909 #5,241
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#1,401 #2,354
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Florida Museum of Natural History specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 33.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 44.1 works33×
  2. EcologySubfield · 23.2 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 5.78× its world share, 77 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.65× its world share, 40 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.04× its world share, 27 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.98× its world share, 70 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.27× its world share, 14 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.04× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.69× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Florida Museum of Natural History?

Ranked on the composite score, Lawrence M. Page, S. David Webb and David L. Dilcher lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Florida Museum of Natural History.

  1. 1 Lawrence M. Page United States · #9,585 worldwide 3.7k citations · 48 works
  2. 2 S. David Webb United States · #62,833 worldwide 162 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 David L. Dilcher United States · #64,769 worldwide 352 citations · 56 works
  4. 4 William F. Keegan United States · #68,784 worldwide 147 citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Steven R. Manchester United States · #83,897 worldwide 368 citations · 72 works
  6. 6 Robert Guralnick United States · #132,541 worldwide 296 citations · 53 works
  7. 7 D. S. Jones United States · #163,112 worldwide 192 citations · 44 works
  8. 8 Andrew Warren United States · #174,752 worldwide 178 citations · 57 works
  9. 9 Kathleen Deagan United States · #208,465 worldwide 39 citations · 41 works
  10. 10 Jonathan I. Bloch United States · #260,128 worldwide 179 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Florida Museum of Natural History

Which keywords describe research at Florida Museum of Natural History?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Invasive Species, Habitat Fragmentation, Conservation, Population Dynamics and Global Change.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Climate Change57▲ 7.5×48 topics
  2. Biodiversity52▲ 25×20 topics
  3. Biogeography36▲ 49×19 topics
  4. Invasive Species35▲ 29×19 topics
  5. Habitat Fragmentation30▲ 47×5 topics
  6. Conservation27▲ 22×18 topics
  7. Population Dynamics25▲ 35×10 topics
  8. Global Change24▲ 32×6 topics
  9. Taxonomy23▲ 64×12 topics
  10. Phylogeny23▲ 53×15 topics
  11. Molecular Phylogeny22▲ 50×11 topics
  12. Conservation Biology19▲ 67×4 topics
  13. Phylogenetic Analysis19▲ 22×16 topics
  14. Ecosystem Services18▲ 16×8 topics
  15. Evolution17▲ 25×14 topics
  16. Plant-Animal Interactions15▲ 62×1 topic
  17. Pollinator Decline15▲ 62×1 topic
  18. DNA Barcoding14▲ 31×9 topics
  19. Model Evaluation12▲ 33×2 topics
  20. Diversification12▲ 106×2 topics
  21. Ecological Niche11▲ 70×1 topic
  22. Phylogenetics11▲ 91×2 topics
  23. Species Distribution Modeling11▲ 70×1 topic
  24. Genetic Diversity11▲ 9.0×13 topics
  25. Evolutionary History11▲ 134×2 topics
  26. Angiosperm Phylogeny11▲ 149×1 topic
  27. Flowering Plants11▲ 149×1 topic
  28. Adaptive Evolution8▲ 52×2 topics
  29. Cryptic Species8▲ 124×2 topics
  30. Ecosystem8▲ 27×3 topics
  31. Lepidoptera8▲ 152×1 topic
  32. Molecular Phylogenetics8▲ 152×1 topic
  33. Biodiversity Loss8▲ 54×3 topics
  34. Biological Invasions7▲ 30×3 topics
  35. Community Ecology7▲ 30×2 topics
  36. molecular systematics7▲ 103×2 topics
  37. Adaptive Radiation6▲ 74×2 topics
  38. Agricultural Origins6▲ 66×1 topic
  39. Radiocarbon Dating6▲ 66×1 topic
  40. Species Richness6▲ 34×2 topics

Which research topics does Florida Museum of Natural History publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Diversity and Evolution and Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy.

Plant and animal studies: 15 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 11 fractional worksPlant Diversity and Evol…11Plant Diversity and Evolution: 11 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and…8Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 8 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient environmental studies: 6 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 6 fractional worksAmphibian and Reptile Bi…6Amphibian and Reptile Biology: 6 fractional worksPlant and Fungal Species Descriptions: 6 fractional worksEvolution and Paleontology Studies: 5 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 4 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcological ModelingGeneticsPaleontology3 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 15 works
  2. 2 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 11 works
  3. 3 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 11 works
  4. 4 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 8 works
  5. 5 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 6 works
  6. 6 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 6 works
  7. 7 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 6 works
  8. 8 Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions Molecular Biology 6 works
  9. 9 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 5 works
  10. 10 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 4 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 available49.7%not open50.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.0%domestic only70.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Florida Museum of Natural History's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.

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