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Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

In research, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust stands highest in Life Sciences (#3,358 of 11,023 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,861 of 5,126 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,996 of 5,407 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Environmental Science (Environmental Science is 9.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#18,037
of 34,923
Rank in United Kingdom
#897
of 1,844
Research works
529
▼ 21% vs 2018-21
Citations
20k
37.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

What is Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Life SciencesDomain #3,358 of 11,023 15.5%182
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,861 of 5,126 17.0%133
Environmental ScienceField #1,996 of 5,407 6.8%270
EcologySubfield #803 of 1,384 5.9%178
Physical SciencesDomain #14,402 of 17,446 7.0%283

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust 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 fields of science does Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research at Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is in Physical Sciences, 22% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (49%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (16%), Medicine (11%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 58.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 29 fractional works · 48.6% of its workEcology: 17 fractional works · 29.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 7.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 22.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 16.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 12.6% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 11.0% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 4 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGame & WildlifeConservation…59fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences22%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences7%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science2948.6%
    2. Computer Science23.6%
    3. Engineering11.8%
    4. Materials Science11.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy11.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.7%
    7. Mathematics00.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences916.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology12.1%
    1. Medicine611.0%
    2. Health Professions00.8%
    3. Nursing00.4%
    4. Veterinary00.4%
    1. Social Sciences34.6%
    2. Psychology11.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Science takes 9.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Environmental ScienceField · 28.7 works9.8×
← 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: 3.36× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.07× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.79× its world share, 29 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.57× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.86× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.91× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.79×29 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.36×9 works
  3. Veterinary2.91×0 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology2.07×1 works
  5. Nursing0.86×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.77×2 works
  7. Medicine0.57×6 works
  8. Psychology0.56×1 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.51×1 works
  10. Materials Science0.48×1 works
  11. Mathematics0.47×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.46×2 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.46×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.36×3 works
  15. Health Professions0.32×0 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.22×0 works
  17. Engineering0.12×1 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.06×0 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust?

Ranked on the quality score, G. R. Potts, Simon Thirgood and Nicholas J. Aebischer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.

  1. 1 G. R. Potts United Kingdom · #800,314 worldwide 2.8k citations · 48 works
  2. 2 Simon Thirgood United Kingdom · #914,132 worldwide 7k citations · 116 works
  3. 3 Nicholas J. Aebischer United Kingdom · #949,619 worldwide 9.6k citations · 163 works
  4. 4 G. Paul Vickerman United Kingdom · #968,400 worldwide 1.3k citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Nicolas W. Sotherton United Kingdom · #986,300 worldwide 4.5k citations · 70 works
  6. 6 J. M. Holland United Kingdom · #1,078,551 worldwide 9.5k citations · 249 works
  7. 7 Stephen C. Tapper United Kingdom · #1,125,280 worldwide 1.8k citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Rasmus B. Lauridsen United Kingdom · #1,457,003 worldwide 1.7k citations · 40 works
  9. 9 N. Giles United Kingdom · #1,798,934 worldwide 1k citations · 26 works
  10. 10 Nicholas S. Peirce United Kingdom · #1,827,131 worldwide 2.3k citations · 81 works
All ranked researchers at Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

What are the most cited papers from Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust?

The most cited paper from Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is "Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity" (Jennifer L. Molnar, Rebecca L Gamboa, Carmen Revenga et al., 2008), with 1,550 citations. Next come "Ecological impacts of early 21st century agricultural change in Europe – A review" (1,352) and "The environmental consequences of adopting conservation tillage in Europe: reviewing the evidence" (1,059).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity Jennifer L. Molnar, Rebecca L Gamboa, Carmen Revenga et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19 Feb 2008 1,550
2 Ecological impacts of early 21st century agricultural change in Europe – A review Chris Stoate, Andràs Báldí, Pedro Rui Beja et al. · Journal of Environmental Management Open access 30 Aug 2009 1,352
3 The environmental consequences of adopting conservation tillage in Europe: reviewing the evidence J. M. Holland · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 20 Mar 2004 1,059
4 Agricultural landscape simplification reduces natural pest control: A quantitative synthesis Adrien Rusch, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Mary M. Gardiner et al. · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment Open access 5 Feb 2016 616
5 Predation of wildlife by domestic catsFelis catusin Great Britain Michael E. Woods, Robbie A. McDonald, Stephen E. Harris · Mammal Review 27 May 2003 470
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Invasive Species, Population Dynamics, Biodiversity, Trophic Cascades, Habitat Fragmentation and Animal Movement.

▲ 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 Change17▲ 10×27 topics
  2. Habitat Selection11▲ 248×2 topics
  3. Invasive Species10▲ 40×10 topics
  4. Population Dynamics9▲ 58×5 topics
  5. Biodiversity8▲ 18×14 topics
  6. Trophic Cascades6▲ 120×2 topics
  7. Habitat Fragmentation6▲ 44×4 topics
  8. Animal Movement5▲ 179×1 topic
  9. Occupancy Rates5▲ 179×1 topic
  10. Avian Ecology5▲ 410×1 topic
  11. Migration Patterns5▲ 345×1 topic
  12. Conservation Biology5▲ 75×3 topics
  13. Conservation4▲ 16×10 topics
  14. Epidemiology4▲ 1.62×10 topics
  15. Global Change4▲ 23×3 topics
  16. Ecosystem3▲ 46×3 topics
  17. Fisheries Sustainability3▲ 57×2 topics
  18. Injury Prevention3▲ 39×3 topics
  19. Predator-Prey Interactions3▲ 60×2 topics
  20. Island Ecosystems3▲ 142×1 topic
  21. Rodent Eradication3▲ 229×1 topic
  22. Species Richness2▲ 67×2 topics
  23. Muscle Injuries2▲ 64×1 topic
  24. Sports Injury2▲ 64×1 topic
  25. Community Ecology2▲ 44×2 topics
  26. Ecosystem Services2▲ 9.6×7 topics
  27. Model Evaluation2▲ 27×2 topics
  28. Biological Invasions2▲ 38×1 topic
  29. Functional Diversity2▲ 62×1 topic
  30. Ecological Niche2▲ 54×1 topic
  31. Species Distribution Modeling2▲ 54×1 topic
  32. Conservation Challenges2▲ 68×1 topic
  33. Freshwater Biodiversity2▲ 51×1 topic
  34. Genetic Diversity2▲ 6.4×6 topics
  35. Ecosystem Resilience2▲ 16×3 topics
  36. Gut Microbiota2▲ 7.5×2 topics
  37. Adaptive Evolution1▲ 41×2 topics
  38. Climate Change Impacts1▲ 19×3 topics
  39. Plant-Animal Interactions1▲ 31×1 topic
  40. Pollinator Decline1▲ 31×1 topic

Which research topics does Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies and Sports injuries and prevention.

Wildlife Ecology and Con…5Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 5 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 5 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 3 fractional worksSports injuries and prevention: 2 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 2 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…2Species Distribution and Climate Change: 2 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 2 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksSports Performance and Training: 1 fractional worksInsect and Pesticide Research: 1 fractional works
EcologyOrthopedics and Sports MedicineNature and Landscape ConservationEcological Modeling2 others

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

  1. 1 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 5 works
  2. 2 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 5 works
  3. 3 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 3 works
  4. 4 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 2 works
  5. 5 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  6. 6 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 2 works
  7. 7 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  8. 8 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  9. 9 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Insect and Pesticide Research Insect Science 1 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 available36.5%not open63.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.4%domestic only81.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% 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 Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00025% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust0.00023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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