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Healthy Waterways

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Research works
20
▼ 70% vs 2018-21
Citations
767
38.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
61%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Healthy Waterways

Not ranked overall: Healthy Waterways is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Healthy Waterways work in?

In all years, 90% of research at Healthy Waterways is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (63%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (20%), Engineering (7%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 18 fractional works · 90.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 62.7% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 23.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 11.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 8.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 20.0% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 15.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workALL ITS WORKHealthy Waterways20fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences3%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1262.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences420.0%
    3. Engineering16.7%
    4. Computer Science01.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.1%
    1. Social Sciences02.0%
    2. Psychology00.8%
    1. Medicine02.5%
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: 1.81× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 16.85× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.69× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePsychology: 1.82× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 16.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences16.85×1 works
  2. Environmental Science9.69×1 works
  3. Psychology1.82×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.81×0 works
  5. Engineering0.55×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.24×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Healthy Waterways?

The most cited paper from Healthy Waterways is "The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon" (Uta Stockmann et al., 2012), with 1,734 citations. Next come "Unravelling complexity in seagrass systems for management: Australia as a microcosm" (358) and "Integration of science and monitoring of river ecosystem health to guide investments in catchment protection and rehabilitation" (213).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon Uta Stockmann et al. · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 22 Nov 2012 1,734
2 Unravelling complexity in seagrass systems for management: Australia as a microcosm Kieryn L. Kilminster, Kathryn McMahon, Michelle Waycott et al. · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 26 Apr 2015 358
3 Integration of science and monitoring of river ecosystem health to guide investments in catchment protection and rehabilitation Stuart Edward Bunn, E. Abal, Michael J. Smith et al. · Freshwater Biology Open access 2010 213
4 Quantifying the conservation value of seascape connectivity: a global synthesis Andrew D. Olds, Rod M. Connolly, Kylie Anne Pitt et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography 18 Oct 2015 182
5 Seagrass ecosystem trajectory depends on the relative timescales of resistance, recovery and disturbance Katherine R. O’Brien, Michelle Waycott, Paul Maxwell et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin Open access 19 Sep 2017 175
All 76 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Healthy Waterways publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Urban Green Space and Health, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management and Geological formations and processes.

Urban Green Space and He…0Urban Green Space and Health: 0 fractional worksSoil and Water Nutrient …0Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics: 0 fractional worksRecreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management: 0 fractional worksGeological formations an…0Geological formations and processes: 0 fractional worksAeolian processes and ef…0Aeolian processes and effects: 0 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems0Fire effects on ecosystems: 0 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimato…0Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 0 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 0 fractional worksFire dynamics and safety research: 0 fractional worksFire Detection and Safety Systems: 0 fractional works
Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisEnvironmental ChemistrySocial PsychologyEarth-Surface Processes4 others

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

  1. 1 Urban Green Space and Health Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  2. 2 Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  3. 3 Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management Social Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 0 works
  5. 5 Aeolian processes and effects Earth-Surface Processes 0 works
  6. 6 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  7. 7 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 0 works
  8. 8 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Fire dynamics and safety research Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  10. 10 Fire Detection and Safety Systems Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 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 available60.6%not open39.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.2%domestic only77.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Healthy Waterways's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 70% 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 Healthy Waterways as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Healthy Waterways0.0000043% in 202520102020

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

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