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Forest Research

In research, Forest Research stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,045 of 6,403 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,490 of 3,157 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,580 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Insect Science (Nature and Landscape Conservation is 30.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#9,299
of 22,385 · #4,857 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#313
of 862
Research works
3.3k
▼ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
66k
19.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.91×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
45%
world 18%
Forest Research

What is Forest Research known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #2,045 of 6,403 8.9%179 #1813
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,490 of 3,157 8.9%139 #1045
Environmental ScienceField #1,580 of 3,334 9.0%160 #1232
Plant ScienceSubfield #786 of 1,317 7.7%62 #1001
Physical SciencesDomain #7,948 of 10,670 9.2%218 #5105

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Forest Research 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

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

  1. Life Sciences#1,813 #2,045
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#1,045 #1,490
  3. Environmental Science#1,232 #1,580
  4. Plant Science#1,001 #786
  5. Physical Sciences#5,105 #7,948
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Forest Research work in?

In 2022-now, 50% of research at Forest Research is in Physical Sciences, 39% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (35%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (30%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 275 fractional works · 49.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 194 fractional works · 35.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 64 fractional works · 11.5% of its workEcology: 46 fractional works · 8.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 41 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcological Modeling: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 40 fractional works · 7.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 13 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 214 fractional works · 38.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 164 fractional works · 29.6% of its workPlant Science: 71 fractional works · 12.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 28 fractional works · 5.1% of its workInsect Science: 22 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSoil Science: 14 fractional works · 2.5% of its workForestry: 12 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFood Science: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 fractional works · 8.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 19 fractional works · 3.5% of its workCell Biology: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrinology: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 34 fractional works · 6.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 31 fractional works · 5.6% of its workMedicine: 22 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKForest Research553fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences39%Physical Sciences50%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science19435.1%
    2. Engineering407.2%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences183.3%
    4. Materials Science71.2%
    5. Computer Science71.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy30.6%
    7. Chemistry30.5%
    8. Energy20.3%
    9. Mathematics10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16429.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology468.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.3%
    4. Neuroscience10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences193.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.7%
    3. Psychology40.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities30.6%
    5. Decision Sciences20.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    1. Medicine224.0%
    2. Health Professions40.8%
    3. Nursing40.7%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Forest Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nature and Landscape Conservation takes 30.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 40.5 works31×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 63.7 works15×
  3. Insect ScienceSubfield · 22.0 works14×
  4. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 27.9 works11×
  5. EcologySubfield · 45.9 works11×
← 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: 6.24× its world share, 164 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.55× its world share, 46 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.35× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.09× its world share, 18 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.48× its world share, 40 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.06× its world share, 194 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.35× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.21× its world share, 22 worksMedicineNursing: 1.39× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 7.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science7.06×194 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.24×164 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.09×18 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.55×46 works
  5. Nursing1.39×4 works
  6. Veterinary0.61×0 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.52×1 works
  8. Engineering0.48×40 works
  9. Chemistry0.35×3 works
  10. Materials Science0.35×7 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.35×4 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.34×2 works
  13. Energy0.33×2 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.33×2 works
  15. Health Professions0.31×4 works
  16. Social Sciences0.28×19 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.25×3 works
  18. Psychology0.22×4 works
  19. Medicine0.21×22 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.20×3 works
  21. Computer Science0.15×7 works
  22. Mathematics0.15×1 works
  23. Neuroscience0.14×1 works
  24. Business, Management and Accounting0.08×2 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.06×0 works
  26. Dentistry0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Forest Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Michael G. Dunn, Barry Gardiner and Nadia Barsoum lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Forest Research.

  1. 1 Michael G. Dunn United Kingdom · #177,022 worldwide 39k citations · 111 works
  2. 2 Barry Gardiner United Kingdom · #189,501 worldwide 11k citations · 232 works
  3. 3 Nadia Barsoum United Kingdom · #298,253 worldwide 3.6k citations · 137 works
  4. 4 Elena Vanguelova United Kingdom · #307,020 worldwide 5.3k citations · 135 works
  5. 5 Sue E. Benham United Kingdom · #324,462 worldwide 3.6k citations · 78 works
  6. 6 James I. L. Morison United Kingdom · #348,201 worldwide 11k citations · 220 works
  7. 7 R. F. Morris United Kingdom · #438,771 worldwide 3.4k citations · 71 works
  8. 8 Sandra Denman United Kingdom · #483,393 worldwide 6k citations · 210 works
  9. 9 Matthew C. Wilkinson United Kingdom · #513,294 worldwide 2.6k citations · 70 works
  10. 10 Andrew J. Peace United Kingdom · #518,652 worldwide 4.3k citations · 81 works
All ranked researchers at Forest Research

What are the most cited papers from Forest Research?

The most cited paper from Forest Research is "Forest disturbances under climate change" (Rupert Seidl, Dominik Thom, Markus Kautz et al., 2017), with 2,900 citations. Next come "Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management" (2,691) and "Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations" (2,257).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Forest disturbances under climate change Rupert Seidl, Dominik Thom, Markus Kautz et al. · Nature Climate Change Open access 31 May 2017 2,900
2 Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management Mark S. Reed, Anil R. Graves, Norman Dandy et al. · Journal of Environmental Management 22 Feb 2009 2,691
3 Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations Sally N. Aitken, Sam Yeaman, Jason A. Holliday et al. · Evolutionary Applications Open access 25 Jan 2008 2,257
4 The Functional Response of Invertebrate Predators to Prey Density Crawford S. Holling · Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 1966 1,365
5 AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds Joseph A. Tobias et al. · Ecology Letters Open access115 authors 24 Feb 2022 1,261
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Forest Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Biomass Estimation, Conservation, Ecosystem Functioning and Ecosystem Resilience.

▲ 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-now 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 Change131▲ 8.7×82 topics
  2. Biodiversity Conservation59▲ 28×16 topics
  3. Invasive Species51▲ 22×18 topics
  4. Biodiversity50▲ 12×26 topics
  5. Sustainability34▲ 2.5×50 topics
  6. Biomass Estimation33▲ 38×3 topics
  7. Conservation31▲ 13×19 topics
  8. Ecosystem Functioning29▲ 26×5 topics
  9. Remote Sensing29▲ 4.3×26 topics
  10. Ecosystem Resilience28▲ 33×5 topics
  11. Forest Management28▲ 84×4 topics
  12. Global Change27▲ 19×5 topics
  13. Ecosystem Services27▲ 13×14 topics
  14. Aboveground Biomass27▲ 57×2 topics
  15. Biological Invasions25▲ 51×2 topics
  16. Phylogenetic Analysis24▲ 14×14 topics
  17. Habitat Fragmentation22▲ 19×5 topics
  18. Allometric Models22▲ 85×2 topics
  19. Climate Change Impact22▲ 17×3 topics
  20. Tropical Forests22▲ 115×2 topics
  21. Carbon Stocks21▲ 148×1 topic
  22. Tree Allometry21▲ 148×1 topic
  23. Global Warming21▲ 8.7×11 topics
  24. Land Use Change20▲ 12×7 topics
  25. Biogeography20▲ 13×18 topics
  26. Ecosystem18▲ 30×3 topics
  27. Soil Properties18▲ 19×6 topics
  28. Climate Change Impacts16▲ 25×8 topics
  29. Vegetation16▲ 28×4 topics
  30. Forest Carbon Sequestration16▲ 140×1 topic
  31. Sustainable Forest Management16▲ 140×1 topic
  32. Population Dynamics15▲ 11×12 topics
  33. Species Richness15▲ 43×2 topics
  34. Sustainable Agriculture15▲ 8.8×10 topics
  35. Drought14▲ 26×3 topics
  36. Taxonomy14▲ 18×13 topics
  37. Evapotranspiration14▲ 31×2 topics
  38. Carbon Balance14▲ 50×1 topic
  39. Community Ecology14▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Functional Diversity14▲ 45×1 topic

Which research topics does Forest Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Forest ecology and management, Forest Management and Policy, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Forest ecology and manag…21Forest ecology and management: 21 fractional worksForest Management and Po…16Forest Management and Policy: 16 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation D…14Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 14 fractional worksPlant Water Relations an…14Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 14 fractional worksForest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies: 12 fractional worksForest Insect Ecology and Management: 12 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems10Fire effects on ecosystems: 10 fractional worksTree Root and Stability Studies: 9 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 9 fractional worksPlant Pathogens and Fung…9Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases: 9 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationGlobal and Planetary ChangeInsect ScienceEcology3 others

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

  1. 1 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 21 works
  2. 2 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 16 works
  3. 3 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 14 works
  4. 4 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 14 works
  5. 5 Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies Insect Science 12 works
  6. 6 Forest Insect Ecology and Management Ecology 12 works
  7. 7 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 10 works
  8. 8 Tree Root and Stability Studies Mechanical Engineering 9 works
  9. 9 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 9 works
  10. 10 Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Cell Biology 9 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 available52.6%not open47.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors45.2%domestic only54.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Forest Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Forest Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Forest Research0.0026% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Forest Research9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.0% in 1990.

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