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info fauna

infofauna.chROR OpenAlex
World rank, all time
#24,578
of 34,923
Rank in Switzerland
#297
of 378
Research works
189
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.8k
41.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
info fauna

Which fields of science does info fauna work in?

In 2022-now, 35% of research at info fauna is in Life Sciences, 32% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (23%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (21%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 13 fractional works · 34.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 21.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 fractional works · 15.1% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 13.0% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 9.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 31.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 23.3% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 8.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 6.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 20.4% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 10.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMedical Terminology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 8.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 13.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKinfo fauna37fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences35%Physical Sciences32%Health Sciences20%Social Sciences13%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences821.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology513.0%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    1. Environmental Science923.3%
    2. Computer Science13.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.1%
    5. Chemistry01.0%
    6. Engineering00.5%
    7. Mathematics00.2%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Health Professions410.4%
    2. Medicine38.4%
    3. Nursing00.9%
    4. Veterinary00.5%
    5. Dentistry00.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting24.5%
    2. Social Sciences13.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities13.7%
    4. Psychology00.9%
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: 4.51× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.44× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.62× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.70× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.96× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.44× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 1.84× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.31× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.27× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.40× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.31× 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, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science4.70×9 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.51×8 works
  3. Health Professions3.96×4 works
  4. Veterinary3.31×0 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.44×5 works
  6. Nursing1.84×0 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.62×1 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting1.40×2 works
  9. Arts and Humanities1.27×1 works
  10. Chemistry0.66×0 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.50×0 works
  12. Medicine0.44×3 works
  13. Computer Science0.38×1 works
  14. Dentistry0.31×0 works
  15. Psychology0.31×0 works
  16. Social Sciences0.31×1 works
  17. Mathematics0.19×0 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×0 works
  19. Neuroscience0.11×0 works
  20. Engineering0.04×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at info fauna?

Ranked on the quality score, Christian Monnerat, Silvia Zumbach and Yves Gonseth lead among researchers whose main affiliation is info fauna.

  1. 1 Christian Monnerat Switzerland · #1,957,982 worldwide 716 citations · 38 works
  2. 2 Silvia Zumbach Switzerland · #2,179,179 worldwide 510 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Yves Gonseth Switzerland · #2,276,738 worldwide 747 citations · 54 works
  4. 4 Olivier Reymond Switzerland · #3,874,480 worldwide 569 citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Yannick Chittaro Switzerland · #3,938,740 worldwide 777 citations · 144 works
  6. 6 Andreas Sanchez Switzerland · #4,954,929 worldwide 361 citations · 66 works
  7. 7 Jean Gabriel Jeannot Switzerland · #5,297,896 worldwide 15 citations · 32 works
  8. 8 Claude Lang Switzerland · #5,529,391 worldwide 619 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at info fauna

What are the most cited papers from info fauna?

The most cited paper from info fauna is "Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data" (Jane Elith et al., 2006), with 9,223 citations. Next come "Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology" (7,419) and "Generalized linear and generalized additive models in studies of species distributions: setting the scene" (2,380).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data Jane Elith et al. · Ecography Open access 29 Mar 2006 9,223
2 Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann · Ecological Modelling Dec 2000 7,419
3 Generalized linear and generalized additive models in studies of species distributions: setting the scene Antoine Guisan, Thomas C. Edwards, Trevor Hastie · Ecological Modelling 21 Oct 2002 2,380
4 Potential Impact of Climate Change on Vegetation in the European Alps: A Review Jean‐Paul Theurillat, Antoine Guisan · Climatic Change Jul 2001 867
5 Making better biogeographical predictions of species’ distributions Antoine Guisan, Anthony Lehmann, Simon Ferrier et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology Open access 12 May 2006 657
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at info fauna?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Invasive Species, Population Dynamics, Taxonomy, Habitat Fragmentation, Evolution 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. Biodiversity8▲ 29×12 topics
  2. Climate Change7▲ 6.6×14 topics
  3. Invasive Species5▲ 30×14 topics
  4. Population Dynamics5▲ 48×7 topics
  5. Taxonomy4▲ 83×9 topics
  6. Evolution4▲ 42×10 topics
  7. Habitat Fragmentation4▲ 52×5 topics
  8. DNA Barcoding4▲ 57×7 topics
  9. Phylogeny4▲ 57×8 topics
  10. Conservation Biology4▲ 87×3 topics
  11. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 25×7 topics
  12. Conservation3▲ 17×11 topics
  13. Mental Health3▲ 5.0×3 topics
  14. Biogeography2▲ 23×10 topics
  15. Global Change2▲ 25×3 topics
  16. Healthcare Legislation2▲ 108×1 topic
  17. Patient Rights2▲ 88×1 topic
  18. Cryptic Species2▲ 219×2 topics
  19. Biodiversity Loss2▲ 93×2 topics
  20. Amphibian Declines2▲ 183×1 topic
  21. Chytridiomycosis2▲ 183×1 topic
  22. Lepidoptera2▲ 245×1 topic
  23. Molecular Phylogenetics2▲ 245×1 topic
  24. Adaptive Evolution2▲ 75×2 topics
  25. Biological Invasions2▲ 48×3 topics
  26. Ecological Niche2▲ 71×1 topic
  27. Species Distribution Modeling2▲ 71×1 topic
  28. Ecology2▲ 23×3 topics
  29. Ecosystem Services2▲ 10×2 topics
  30. Technology2▲ 7.7×2 topics
  31. Ethics1▲ 7.3×3 topics
  32. Genetic Diversity1▲ 7.9×4 topics
  33. Genetic Structure1▲ 46×2 topics
  34. Plant-Animal Interactions1▲ 46×1 topic
  35. Pollinator Decline1▲ 46×1 topic
  36. Species Delimitation1▲ 73×2 topics
  37. Animal Movement1▲ 66×1 topic
  38. Ecosystem Functioning1▲ 16×4 topics
  39. Occupancy Rates1▲ 66×1 topic
  40. Species Richness1▲ 50×2 topics

Which research topics does info fauna publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health, Medicine and Society, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Health, Medicine and Soc…2Health, Medicine and Society: 2 fractional worksAmphibian and Reptile Bi…2Amphibian and Reptile Biology: 2 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and…2Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 2 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…2Species Distribution and Climate Change: 2 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 1 fractional worksERP Systems Implementati…1ERP Systems Implementation and Impact: 1 fractional worksViral Infections and Out…1Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research: 1 fractional worksBioethics and Human Righ…1Bioethics and Human Rights Issues: 1 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation D…1Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsGlobal and Planetary ChangeGeneticsEcological Modeling6 others

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

  1. 1 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 2 works
  2. 2 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  3. 3 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 2 works
  4. 4 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 2 works
  5. 5 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  6. 6 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 1 works
  7. 7 ERP Systems Implementation and Impact Management Information Systems 1 works
  8. 8 Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research Infectious Diseases 1 works
  9. 9 Bioethics and Human Rights Issues Information Systems 1 works
  10. 10 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available57.8%not open42.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.0%domestic only70.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has info fauna's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is info fauna as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00013% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%info fauna0.00019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of info fauna over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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