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Guanacaste Conservation Area

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World rank, 2022-now
#19,214
of 22,385 · #15,341 all time
Rank in Costa Rica
#26
of 26
Research works
238
▲ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
3k
12.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
74%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
Guanacaste Conservation Area

Which fields of science does Guanacaste Conservation Area work in?

In 2022-now, 38% of research at Guanacaste Conservation Area is in Life Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (29%), Social Sciences (16%), Environmental Science (15%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 32 fractional works · 38.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 25 fractional works · 29.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 fractional works · 11.9% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 8.0% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 29.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 13 fractional works · 15.4% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 6.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 6.7% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 23.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 15.6% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 8.3% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGuanacasteConservation Area84fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences38%Physical Sciences30%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences24%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2529.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology78.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.8%
    4. Neuroscience00.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Environmental Science1315.4%
    2. Computer Science66.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences33.0%
    4. Chemistry21.9%
    5. Engineering11.7%
    6. Energy10.9%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Social Sciences1315.6%
    2. Psychology33.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities22.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance22.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.4%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Medicine56.4%
    2. Health Professions11.2%
    3. Veterinary00.4%
    4. Dentistry00.2%
    5. Nursing00.1%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 6.11× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.49× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.22× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.86× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.91× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.11× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.33× its world share, 5 worksMedicineNursing: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.66× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.72× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.92× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.12× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.23× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 6.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.11×24 works
  2. Environmental Science3.11×13 works
  3. Veterinary2.66×0 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.91×2 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.49×7 works
  6. Social Sciences1.23×13 works
  7. Chemistry1.22×2 works
  8. Psychology1.12×3 works
  9. Energy0.93×1 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.92×2 works
  11. Computer Science0.86×6 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.75×1 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.72×2 works
  14. Health Professions0.45×1 works
  15. Dentistry0.41×0 works
  16. Medicine0.33×5 works
  17. Nursing0.27×0 works
  18. Neuroscience0.23×0 works
  19. Chemical Engineering0.23×0 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.22×0 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.12×0 works
  22. Decision Sciences0.12×0 works
  23. Engineering0.11×2 works
  24. Mathematics0.11×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Guanacaste Conservation Area?

Ranked on the quality score, Ilena Zanella and Andrés López-Garro lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Guanacaste Conservation Area.

  1. 1 Ilena Zanella Costa Rica · #3,227,799 worldwide 220 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Andrés López-Garro Costa Rica · #4,685,826 worldwide 125 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Guanacaste Conservation Area

What are the most cited papers from Guanacaste Conservation Area?

The most cited paper from Guanacaste Conservation Area is "Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming" (J. Alan Pounds, Martín R. Bustamante, Luis A. Coloma et al., 2006), with 1,977 citations. Next come "Effect of Human Papillomavirus 16/18 L1 Viruslike Particle Vaccine Among Young Women With Preexisting Infection" (667) and "The carcinogenicity of human papillomavirus types reflects viral evolution" (563).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming J. Alan Pounds, Martín R. Bustamante, Luis A. Coloma et al. · Nature 2006 1,977
2 Effect of Human Papillomavirus 16/18 L1 Viruslike Particle Vaccine Among Young Women With Preexisting Infection Allan Hildesheim, Rolando Herrero, Sholom Wacholder et al. · JAMA Open access 14 Aug 2007 667
3 The carcinogenicity of human papillomavirus types reflects viral evolution MARK H. SCHIFFMAN, Rolando Herrero, Rob DeSalle et al. · Virology Open access 6 May 2005 563
4 Reduced Prevalence of Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 4 Years after Bivalent HPV Vaccination in a Randomized Clinical Trial in Costa Rica Rolando Herrero, Wim G.V. Quint, Allan Hildesheim et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 17 Jul 2013 476
5 Smoking and cervical cancer: pooled analysis of the IARC multi-centric case–control study Martyn Plummer, Rolando Herrero, Silvia Franceschi et al. · Cancer Causes & Control Open access Nov 2003 449
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Guanacaste Conservation Area?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Evolution, Population Dynamics, Invasive Species, Taxonomy and DNA Barcoding.

▲ 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. Biodiversity12▲ 18×18 topics
  2. Climate Change11▲ 4.7×29 topics
  3. Conservation7▲ 20×13 topics
  4. Evolution7▲ 31×8 topics
  5. Population Dynamics7▲ 31×10 topics
  6. Invasive Species7▲ 18×16 topics
  7. Education6▲ 4.2×13 topics
  8. Sustainability6▲ 2.7×14 topics
  9. Environmental Impact6▲ 3.8×12 topics
  10. Taxonomy5▲ 44×8 topics
  11. DNA Barcoding5▲ 32×8 topics
  12. Innovation4▲ 5.0×6 topics
  13. Food Security4▲ 9.2×5 topics
  14. Phylogeny4▲ 30×9 topics
  15. Phylogenetic Analysis4▲ 14×9 topics
  16. E-Learning4▲ 4.5×4 topics
  17. Social Impact3▲ 9.6×5 topics
  18. Molecular Phylogeny3▲ 22×7 topics
  19. Pedagogy3▲ 6.5×4 topics
  20. Phylogenetic Relationships3▲ 48×2 topics
  21. Cycads3▲ 665×1 topic
  22. Digital Marketing3▲ 8.1×2 topics
  23. Distance Learning3▲ 9.1×3 topics
  24. Plant-derived Neurotoxins3▲ 665×1 topic
  25. Sustainable Agriculture3▲ 10×4 topics
  26. Biogeography2▲ 11×10 topics
  27. Habitat Fragmentation2▲ 14×4 topics
  28. Conservation Biology2▲ 26×3 topics
  29. Ecosystem Services2▲ 6.9×6 topics
  30. Global Change2▲ 10×4 topics
  31. Technology2▲ 5.3×4 topics
  32. Biological Control2▲ 17×5 topics
  33. Small and Medium Enterprises2▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Agroecology2▲ 17×2 topics
  35. Genetic Structure2▲ 34×3 topics
  36. Lepidoptera2▲ 130×1 topic
  37. Molecular Phylogenetics2▲ 130×1 topic
  38. Waste Management2▲ 6.3×3 topics
  39. Organic Farming2▲ 34×1 topic
  40. Soil Management2▲ 58×1 topic

Which research topics does Guanacaste Conservation Area publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Plant and soil sciences and Insect Utilization and Effects.

Botany and Geology in La…3Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean: 3 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and…2Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 2 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences2Plant and soil sciences: 2 fractional worksInsect Utilization and E…2Insect Utilization and Effects: 2 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 2 fractional worksE-Learning and Knowledge Management: 2 fractional worksPlant and animal studies1Plant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 1 fractional worksKnowledge Societies in the 21st Century: 1 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, an…1Business, Innovation, and Economy: 1 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsGeneticsGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesInsect Science5 others

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

  1. 1 Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 works
  2. 2 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 2 works
  3. 3 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 works
  4. 4 Insect Utilization and Effects Insect Science 2 works
  5. 5 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 2 works
  6. 6 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 2 works
  7. 7 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  8. 8 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 1 works
  9. 9 Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century Demography 1 works
  10. 10 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 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 available74.3%not open25.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.1%domestic only67.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Guanacaste Conservation Area's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% 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 Guanacaste Conservation Area as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00022% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Guanacaste Conservation Area0.00047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Guanacaste Conservation Area over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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