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Four Directions Development Corporation

fourdirectionsmaine.orgROR OpenAlex
Research works
61
▲ 38% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.9k
31.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Four Directions Development Corporation is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 2.58× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 1.30× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.33× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.07× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.41× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.76× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Four Directions Development Corporation?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, History, Remote Sensing, Invasive Species, Antioxidants, Toxicity, Geospatial Crowdsourcing and Neoliberalism.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 Change8▲ 5.0×24 topics
  2. History4▲ 7.6×6 topics
  3. Remote Sensing3▲ 4.7×6 topics
  4. Invasive Species2▲ 6.7×6 topics
  5. Antioxidants2▲ 8.0×3 topics
  6. Toxicity2▲ 7.8×4 topics
  7. Geospatial Crowdsourcing2▲ 120×1 topic
  8. Metabolism2▲ 5.1×3 topics
  9. Neoliberalism2▲ 9.2×2 topics
  10. Science2▲ 18×3 topics
  11. Volunteered Geographic Information2▲ 120×1 topic
  12. Potato2▲ 65×2 topics
  13. Biological Control2▲ 17×4 topics
  14. Acrylamide2▲ 109×1 topic
  15. Maillard Reaction2▲ 109×1 topic
  16. Identity2▲ 3.3×3 topics
  17. Ethics2▲ 5.1×4 topics
  18. Sea Level Rise2▲ 20×2 topics
  19. Feminism1▲ 8.3×2 topics
  20. Glacial Cycles1▲ 20×1 topic
  21. Holocene1▲ 14×2 topics
  22. Hydrology1▲ 19×3 topics
  23. Paleoclimatology1▲ 17×1 topic
  24. Pheromones1▲ 33×2 topics
  25. Biological Detection1▲ 16×2 topics
  26. Hydrological Modeling1▲ 10×3 topics
  27. Self-Regulation1▲ 12×2 topics
  28. Academic Achievement1▲ 12×2 topics
  29. Acoustic Wave Biosensors1▲ 37×1 topic
  30. Sustainability Indicators1▲ 29×2 topics
  31. Thin Film Resonators1▲ 37×1 topic
  32. Agricultural Productivity1▲ 59×1 topic
  33. Canada1▲ 60×1 topic
  34. Civil Engineering1▲ 26×1 topic
  35. Construction1▲ 16×1 topic
  36. Economic Institutions1▲ 52×1 topic
  37. Epistemology1▲ 36×1 topic
  38. Halyomorpha halys1▲ 162×1 topic
  39. Professional Development1▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Trauma1▲ 8.8×2 topics

Which research topics does Four Directions Development Corporation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Canadian Identity and History, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Radiative Heat Transfer Studies and Ecology and biodiversity studies.

Canadian Identity and Hi…1Canadian Identity and History: 1 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksRadiative Heat Transfer Studies: 0 fractional worksEcology and biodiversity…0Ecology and biodiversity studies: 0 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 0 fractional worksThermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes: 0 fractional worksCoal Combustion and Slur…0Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing: 0 fractional worksPotato Plant Research0Potato Plant Research: 0 fractional worksPlant Pathogens and Resistance: 0 fractional worksPolyomavirus and related diseases: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceNature and Landscape ConservationComputational MechanicsEcology5 others

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

  1. 1 Canadian Identity and History Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  2. 2 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  3. 3 Radiative Heat Transfer Studies Computational Mechanics 0 works
  4. 4 Ecology and biodiversity studies Ecology 0 works
  5. 5 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  6. 6 Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Potato Plant Research Food Science 0 works
  9. 9 Plant Pathogens and Resistance Plant Science 0 works
  10. 10 Polyomavirus and related diseases Oncology 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 available28.7%not open71.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.3%domestic only87.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Four Directions Development Corporation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 38% higher than in 2013–2017.

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