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Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática

In research, Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática stands highest in Life Sciences (#4,221 of 11,023 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,997 of 5,126 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#15,929 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#16,013
of 34,923
Rank in Cuba
#38
of 56
Research works
650
▼ 45% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.4k
5.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.86×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
55%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática

What is Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática 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 #4,221 of 11,023 2.5%405
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,997 of 5,126 2.7%341
Physical SciencesDomain #15,929 of 17,446 2.4%164

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática 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 Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research at Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática is in Physical Sciences, 39% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (29%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (27%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 22 fractional works · 43.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 15 fractional works · 29.3% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 10.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 6.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.4% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 6.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 20 fractional works · 38.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 14 fractional works · 27.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 fractional works · 18.9% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 10.2% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 7.2% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 10.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKInstituto deEcologia y…51fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences39%Physical Sciences43%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences10%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1529.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences47.4%
    3. Engineering24.5%
    4. Computer Science11.6%
    5. Materials Science00.2%
    6. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1427.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology510.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.5%
    1. Psychology23.7%
    2. Social Sciences12.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting12.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.8%
    1. Medicine35.4%
    2. Health Professions11.8%
    3. Nursing00.3%
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: 5.69× its world share, 14 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.92× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.53× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.72× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.91× its world share, 15 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.22× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.19× 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, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science5.91×15 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5.69×14 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.72×4 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.92×5 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.53×1 works
  6. Psychology1.22×2 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.75×1 works
  8. Health Professions0.67×1 works
  9. Nursing0.66×0 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.48×0 works
  11. Engineering0.30×2 works
  12. Medicine0.28×3 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.28×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.20×1 works
  15. Social Sciences0.19×1 works
  16. Mathematics0.18×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática?

Ranked on the quality score, Raquel M. Rodríguez Rodríguez, Lourdes Rodrí­guez Schettino and Aurelio García lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática.

  1. 1 Raquel M. Rodríguez Rodríguez Cuba · #1,621,415 worldwide 737 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Lourdes Rodrí­guez Schettino Cuba · #1,690,664 worldwide 2.9k citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Aurelio García Cuba · #3,381,412 worldwide 169 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Osvaldo Jiménez Vázquez Cuba · #3,450,236 worldwide 149 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Ramona Oviedo Cuba · #3,576,738 worldwide 1.1k citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Alejandro Llanes Sosa Cuba · #3,838,227 worldwide 202 citations · 31 works
  7. 7 Ángela Beyra Matos Cuba · #4,017,614 worldwide 305 citations · 26 works
  8. 8 Margarita Ruíz Cuba · #4,315,658 worldwide 70 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Leda Menéndez Carrera Cuba · #4,371,773 worldwide 32 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Delhy Albert Puentes Cuba · #4,449,813 worldwide 4 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática

What are the most cited papers from Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática?

The most cited paper from Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática is "Contingency and Determinism in Replicated Adaptive Radiations of Island Lizards" (Jonathan B. Losos, Todd R. Jackman, Allan Larson et al., 1998), with 1,162 citations. Next come "Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard" (1,128) and "Beyond species loss: the extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world" (984).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Contingency and Determinism in Replicated Adaptive Radiations of Island Lizards Jonathan B. Losos, Todd R. Jackman, Allan Larson et al. · Science 27 Mar 1998 1,162
2 Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard Jason J. Kolbe, Richard E. Glor, Lourdes Rodrí­guez Schettino et al. · Nature Sep 2004 1,128
3 Beyond species loss: the extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet, Marcelo A. Aizen, Julio M. Alcántara et al. · Functional Ecology Open access 28 Nov 2014 984
4 Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community Jonathan B. Losos, Manuel Leal, Richard E. Glor et al. · Nature Jul 2003 344
5 Phylogeny of saprobic microfungi from Southern Europe Margarita Hernández‐Restrepo, Josepa Gené, Rafael F. Castañeda-Ruíz et al. · Studies in Mycology Open access Mar 2017 195
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Which keywords describe research at Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Phylogenetic Analysis, Population Dynamics, Invasive Species, Habitat Fragmentation, Conservation Biology and Conservation.

▲ 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 Change13▲ 9.1×16 topics
  2. Biodiversity12▲ 31×13 topics
  3. Invasive Species7▲ 32×13 topics
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis7▲ 43×9 topics
  5. Population Dynamics7▲ 53×10 topics
  6. Habitat Fragmentation6▲ 57×5 topics
  7. Conservation Biology6▲ 107×3 topics
  8. Conservation6▲ 26×11 topics
  9. Biogeography5▲ 37×13 topics
  10. Evolution5▲ 37×9 topics
  11. Taxonomy4▲ 61×9 topics
  12. Molecular Phylogeny4▲ 52×9 topics
  13. Phylogeny4▲ 49×12 topics
  14. Biodiversity Loss4▲ 130×2 topics
  15. DNA Barcoding4▲ 42×6 topics
  16. Global Change4▲ 26×4 topics
  17. Amphibian Declines3▲ 260×1 topic
  18. Chytridiomycosis3▲ 260×1 topic
  19. Ecosystem Services3▲ 13×2 topics
  20. Plant-Animal Interactions2▲ 63×1 topic
  21. Pollinator Decline2▲ 63×1 topic
  22. Cryptic Species2▲ 184×2 topics
  23. Education2▲ 2.6×5 topics
  24. Citizen Science2▲ 39×2 topics
  25. Ethical Considerations2▲ 11×2 topics
  26. Lepidoptera2▲ 194×1 topic
  27. Molecular Phylogenetics2▲ 194×1 topic
  28. Neotropical Region2▲ 203×2 topics
  29. Ecological Niche2▲ 61×1 topic
  30. Habitat Selection2▲ 47×2 topics
  31. Species Distribution Modeling2▲ 61×1 topic
  32. Attitudes2▲ 83×1 topic
  33. Endemism2▲ 178×1 topic
  34. Flagship Species2▲ 134×1 topic
  35. Regionalization2▲ 384×1 topic
  36. Avian Ecology2▲ 140×1 topic
  37. Food Security2▲ 5.8×3 topics
  38. Migration Patterns2▲ 117×1 topic
  39. Symbiosis2▲ 33×2 topics
  40. Fish Biodiversity1▲ 142×1 topic

Which research topics does Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Amphibian and Reptile Biology: 3 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 2 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 2 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 2 fractional worksAnimal and Plant Science Education: 2 fractional worksScarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography: 2 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior2Avian ecology and behavior: 2 fractional worksFish biology, ecology, and behavior: 1 fractional worksInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior: 1 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences1Plant and soil sciences: 1 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsGeneticsEcological Modeling5 others

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

  1. 1 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2 works
  3. 3 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 2 works
  4. 4 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 2 works
  5. 5 Animal and Plant Science Education Social Psychology 2 works
  6. 6 Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography Paleontology 2 works
  7. 7 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 2 works
  8. 8 Fish biology, ecology, and behavior Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  9. 9 Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior Genetics 1 works
  10. 10 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 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 available55.0%not open45.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.4%domestic only73.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% 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 Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00011% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática0.00016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2019Instituto de Ecologia y Sistemática1.8% in 201920002010

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 4.4% in 2014.

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