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Instituto Antártico Uruguayo

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Research works
2
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
59
26.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
47%
world 18%
Instituto Antártico Uruguayo

Not ranked overall: Instituto Antártico Uruguayo 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 Instituto Antártico Uruguayo work in?

In all years, 82% of research at Instituto Antártico Uruguayo is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (77%), Immunology and Microbiology (14%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Physical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 81.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 77.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 18.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 13.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoAntártico…2fractional works, all years
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences82%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 2 domains and 4 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science277.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences04.5%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology013.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology04.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Antártico Uruguayo?

The most cited paper from Instituto Antártico Uruguayo is "The emergence of private land conservation in scientific literature: A review" (Gonzalo Cortés‐Capano, Tuuli Toivonen, Álvaro Soutullo et al., 2019), with 95 citations. Next come "The movements of gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua from Ardley Island, Antarctica" (53) and "Centennial glacier retreat increases sedimentation and eutrophication in Subantarctic periglacial lakes: A study case of Lake Uruguay" (35).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The emergence of private land conservation in scientific literature: A review Gonzalo Cortés‐Capano, Tuuli Toivonen, Álvaro Soutullo et al. · Biological Conservation Open access 11 Jul 2019 95
2 The movements of gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua from Ardley Island, Antarctica Rory Paul Wilson, B. Alvarrez, Lucía Latorre et al. · Polar Biology 20 May 1998 53
3 Centennial glacier retreat increases sedimentation and eutrophication in Subantarctic periglacial lakes: A study case of Lake Uruguay Felipe García‐Rodríguez, Claudia Piccini, Daniel G. Carrizo et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 28 Aug 2020 35
4 Radiative Heat Loss in Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) Adults and Chicks and the Importance of Warm Feet Rory Paul Wilson, D. Adelung, Leonardo Latorre · Physiological Zoology Sep 1998 19
5 Managing cumulative impacts and protected areas in Antarctica: what can we learn from the rest of the world? Álvaro Soutullo, Ana Laura Machado-Gaye, Eduardo Juri · Polar Research Open access 20 Jun 2022 7
All 8 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Instituto Antártico Uruguayo publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Coastal and Marine Management, Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond, Polar Research and Ecology and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Coastal and Marine Manag…0Coastal and Marine Management: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental and Cultur…0Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond: 0 fractional worksPolar Research and Ecology0Polar Research and Ecology: 0 fractional works
Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawEcology

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

  1. 1 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  2. 2 Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond Ecology 0 works
  3. 3 Polar Research and Ecology Ecology 0 works
  4. 4 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 0 works
  5. 5 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 0 works
  6. 6 Virus-based gene therapy research Genetics 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 available47.4%not open52.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.1%domestic only52.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Antártico Uruguayo's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% lower than in 2018-2021.

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