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Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

In research, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad stands highest in Life Sciences (#3,257 of 6,403 worldwide), Social Sciences (#7,084 of 9,585 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#7,925 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology (Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 19.8× its share of world research).

World rank, 2022-now
#8,202
of 22,385 · #10,304 all time
Rank in Ecuador
#48
of 71
Research works
707
▲ 102% vs 2018-21
Citations
4k
5.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
64%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%

What is Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #3,257 of 6,403 9.3%65 #5065
Social SciencesDomain #7,084 of 9,585 9.7%65 #10498
Physical SciencesDomain #7,925 of 10,670 8.6%91 #11897

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Life Sciences#5,065 #3,257
  2. Social Sciences#10,498 #7,084
  3. Physical Sciences#11,897 #7,925
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad work in?

In 2022-now, 38% of research at Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (20%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (18%), Social Sciences (16%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 118 fractional works · 38.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 61 fractional works · 19.9% of its workEcology: 22 fractional works · 7.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 14 fractional works · 4.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 12 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 19 fractional works · 6.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 17 fractional works · 5.6% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 2.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPaleontology: 14 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 83 fractional works · 27.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 56 fractional works · 18.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 29 fractional works · 9.3% of its workPlant Science: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInsect Science: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHorticulture: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 24 fractional works · 7.7% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 73 fractional works · 23.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 49 fractional works · 15.9% of its workEducation: 14 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLaw: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 34 fractional works · 10.9% of its workMedicine: 27 fractional works · 8.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoNacional de…309fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences27%Physical Sciences38%Health Sciences11%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. Environmental Science6119.9%
    2. Engineering196.0%
    3. Computer Science175.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences175.4%
    5. Materials Science10.4%
    6. Mathematics10.4%
    7. Energy10.3%
    8. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    9. Chemistry10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5618.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology247.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology30.8%
    4. Neuroscience10.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences4915.9%
    2. Psychology82.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting62.0%
    4. Arts and Humanities51.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.1%
    6. Decision Sciences10.5%
    1. Medicine278.8%
    2. Health Professions61.9%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 19.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 28.7 works20×
  2. EcologySubfield · 21.7 works8.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 3.79× its world share, 56 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.44× its world share, 24 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.81× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.72× its world share, 17 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.43× its world share, 17 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.40× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.00× its world share, 61 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.73× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.46× its world share, 27 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.61× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.62× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.50× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.83× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.25× its world share, 49 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science4.00×61 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.79×56 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.43×17 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.44×24 works
  5. Social Sciences1.25×49 works
  6. Psychology0.83×8 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.81×2 works
  8. Health Professions0.73×6 works
  9. Computer Science0.72×17 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.62×6 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.61×6 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.50×2 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.50×3 works
  14. Medicine0.46×27 works
  15. Veterinary0.42×0 works
  16. Engineering0.40×18 works
  17. Mathematics0.31×1 works
  18. Energy0.30×1 works
  19. Neuroscience0.28×1 works
  20. Nursing0.23×0 works
  21. Dentistry0.19×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.15×1 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.12×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.11×1 works
  25. Physics and Astronomy0.11×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad?

Ranked on the quality score, Walter A. Palacios, Diego J. Inclán and Diana Fernández‐Fernández lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad.

  1. 1 Walter A. Palacios Ecuador · #306,959 worldwide 3.4k citations · 57 works
  2. 2 Diego J. Inclán Ecuador · #1,491,949 worldwide 1.7k citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Diana Fernández‐Fernández Ecuador · #2,092,833 worldwide 510 citations · 31 works
  4. 4 Santiago Villamarín‐Cortez Ecuador · #2,190,540 worldwide 989 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 Pablo Jarrín–V Ecuador · #2,272,740 worldwide 685 citations · 49 works
  6. 6 Mauricio Ortega-Andrade Ecuador · #2,330,160 worldwide 1.4k citations · 56 works
  7. 7 Julio C. Carrión–Olmedo Ecuador · #2,601,906 worldwide 70 citations · 31 works
  8. 8 Jonathan Valdiviezo‐Rivera Ecuador · #2,711,681 worldwide 450 citations · 46 works
  9. 9 Marco Altamirano-Benavides Ecuador · #3,474,182 worldwide 331 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig Ecuador · #3,760,208 worldwide 423 citations · 50 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad?

The most cited paper from Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad is "Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats" (Jennifer A. Luedtke et al., 2023), with 813 citations. Next come "Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change" (674) and "The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores" (657).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats Jennifer A. Luedtke et al. · Nature Open access123 authors 4 Oct 2023 813
2 Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change Antoine Rabatel et al. · ˜The œcryosphere Open access 22 Jan 2013 674
3 The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores Matthew L. Forister et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 29 Dec 2014 657
4 Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition Daniel S. Karp et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access156 authors 2 Aug 2018 649
5 The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe Emily A. Martin et al. · Ecology Letters Open access 7 Apr 2019 642
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad?

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

▲ 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 Change44▲ 5.3×44 topics
  2. Biodiversity39▲ 17×21 topics
  3. Population Dynamics32▲ 40×10 topics
  4. Conservation Biology23▲ 71×4 topics
  5. Biogeography23▲ 27×18 topics
  6. Conservation23▲ 17×13 topics
  7. Phylogenetic Analysis23▲ 23×13 topics
  8. Invasive Species22▲ 17×19 topics
  9. Habitat Fragmentation20▲ 30×4 topics
  10. Education19▲ 3.5×28 topics
  11. Molecular Phylogeny19▲ 37×10 topics
  12. Evolution15▲ 18×14 topics
  13. Phylogeny14▲ 27×15 topics
  14. DNA Barcoding11▲ 21×8 topics
  15. Taxonomy11▲ 25×12 topics
  16. Biodiversity Loss11▲ 64×2 topics
  17. Global Change11▲ 13×5 topics
  18. Amphibian Declines11▲ 134×1 topic
  19. Chytridiomycosis11▲ 134×1 topic
  20. E-Learning10▲ 3.4×8 topics
  21. Educational Technology10▲ 2.7×17 topics
  22. Ecosystem Services9▲ 7.6×7 topics
  23. Ecology8▲ 16×7 topics
  24. Ecological Niche8▲ 43×1 topic
  25. Model Evaluation8▲ 20×2 topics
  26. Species Distribution Modeling8▲ 43×1 topic
  27. Habitat Selection8▲ 33×2 topics
  28. Pedagogy7▲ 4.8×7 topics
  29. Adaptive Radiation7▲ 69×2 topics
  30. Plant-Animal Interactions7▲ 27×1 topic
  31. Pollinator Decline7▲ 27×1 topic
  32. Morphology6▲ 12×6 topics
  33. Distance Learning6▲ 5.7×5 topics
  34. Neotropical Region6▲ 110×2 topics
  35. Mammal Evolution6▲ 88×1 topic
  36. Online Education6▲ 9.5×3 topics
  37. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis6▲ 88×1 topic
  38. Predator-Prey Interactions5▲ 22×2 topics
  39. Bats5▲ 52×2 topics
  40. Metabolic Rate5▲ 27×3 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad publish most on?

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

  1. 1 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 11 works
  2. 2 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 8 works
  3. 3 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 7 works
  4. 4 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 6 works
  5. 5 Bat Biology and Ecology Studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 5 works
  6. 6 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 5 works
  7. 7 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 5 works
  8. 8 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 5 works
  9. 9 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 5 works
  10. 10 Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography Paleontology 4 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 available64.3%not open35.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.0%domestic only62.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 102% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Nacional de Biodiversidad as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00099% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad0.0015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad 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.

still counting5%10%15%Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad12.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.1% in 2025.

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