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Foodbank

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Research works
10
▲ 31% vs 2018-21
Citations
120
11.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
70%
world 40%
International
37%
world 18%
Foodbank

Not ranked overall: Foodbank 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 Foodbank work in?

In all years, 65% of research at Foodbank is in Health Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Health Professions (48%), Social Sciences (17%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 7 fractional works · 64.9% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 47.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 46.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 12.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 8.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 19.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 17.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 11.8% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 13.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 13.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKFoodbank10fractional works, all years
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences65%Social Sciences19%

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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Health Professions547.7%
    2. Medicine112.9%
    3. Nursing04.2%
    1. Social Sciences217.4%
    2. Decision Sciences01.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting00.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences113.7%
    1. Environmental Science02.4%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Foodbank?

The most cited paper from Foodbank is "Forging a Pediatric Primary Care–Community Partnership to Support Food-Insecure Families" (Andrew F. Beck, Adrienne W. Henize, Robert S. Kahn et al., 2014), with 98 citations. Next come "Finding Place in Community Change Initiatives: Using GIS to Uncover Resident Perceptions of their Neighborhoods" (78) and "Utilising a multi‐item questionnaire to assess household food security in Australia" (57).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Forging a Pediatric Primary Care–Community Partnership to Support Food-Insecure Families Andrew F. Beck, Adrienne W. Henize, Robert S. Kahn et al. · PEDIATRICS 22 Jul 2014 98
2 Finding Place in Community Change Initiatives: Using GIS to Uncover Resident Perceptions of their Neighborhoods Claudia J. Coulton, Tsui Chan, Kristen Mikelbank · Journal of Community Practice 28 Feb 2011 78
3 Utilising a multi‐item questionnaire to assess household food security in Australia Lucy Meredith Butcher, Therese A. O’Sullivan, Maria M Ryan et al. · Health Promotion Journal of Australia Open access 15 Mar 2018 57
4 Foodbank of Western Australia's healthy food for all Lucy Meredith Butcher, Miranda Chester, Leisha Michelle Aberle et al. · British Food Journal 26 Aug 2014 42
5 Looking through the Keyhole: Exploring Realities and Possibilities for School Breakfast Programs in Rural Western Australia Simon Ichumar, Emma Dahlberg, Ellen Paynter et al. · Nutrients Open access 17 Mar 2018 12
All 21 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Foodbank publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Digital Games and Media, Service-Learning and Community Engagement and Child Development and Digital Technology.

Food Security and Health…2Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations: 2 fractional worksDigital Games and Media1Digital Games and Media: 1 fractional worksService-Learning and Community Engagement: 0 fractional worksChild Development and Digital Technology: 0 fractional worksBreastfeeding Practices and Influences: 0 fractional worksUrban Agriculture and Sustainability: 0 fractional worksFood Quality and Safety Studies: 0 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Feeding Issues: 0 fractional worksMeat and Animal Product Quality: 0 fractional worksCommunity Health and Development: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSociology and Political ScienceEducationEpidemiology4 others

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

  1. 1 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 2 works
  2. 2 Digital Games and Media Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Service-Learning and Community Engagement Education 0 works
  4. 4 Child Development and Digital Technology Education 0 works
  5. 5 Breastfeeding Practices and Influences Epidemiology 0 works
  6. 6 Urban Agriculture and Sustainability Plant Science 0 works
  7. 7 Food Quality and Safety Studies Food Science 0 works
  8. 8 Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues Psychiatry and Mental health 0 works
  9. 9 Meat and Animal Product Quality Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  10. 10 Community Health and Development General Health Professions 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 available69.5%not open30.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors36.7%domestic only63.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Foodbank's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% 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 Foodbank as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Foodbank0.000048% in 202520102020

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

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