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Kalahari Conservation Society

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Research works
15
▼ 34% vs 2018-21
Citations
281
18.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
69%
world 18%
Kalahari Conservation Society

Not ranked overall: Kalahari Conservation Society 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 Kalahari Conservation Society work in?

In all years, 58% of research at Kalahari Conservation Society is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (58%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Medicine (7%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 58.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 58.3% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 41.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 12.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 15.5% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 15.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 10.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKKalahariConservation…15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences11%

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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science958.3%
    2. Engineering00.1%
    1. Medicine17.2%
    2. Veterinary14.9%
    3. Health Professions03.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology210.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.7%
    1. Psychology16.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance13.4%
    3. Social Sciences01.5%
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: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Environmental Science: 9.79× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 5.71× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksMedicineVeterinary: 4.18× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.79×2 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7.03×0 works
  3. Health Professions5.71×0 works
  4. Veterinary4.18×0 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.99×0 works
  6. Medicine0.78×0 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Kalahari Conservation Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Jane Horgan, Lorraine K. Boast and Rebecca Klein lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kalahari Conservation Society.

  1. 1 Jane Horgan Botswana · #2,243,100 worldwide 394 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Lorraine K. Boast Botswana · #2,849,573 worldwide 590 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Rebecca Klein Botswana · #2,882,346 worldwide 737 citations · 49 works
All ranked researchers at Kalahari Conservation Society

What are the most cited papers from Kalahari Conservation Society?

The most cited paper from Kalahari Conservation Society is "The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation" (Sarah M. Durant et al., 2016), with 218 citations. Next come "Modelling cheetah relocation success in southern Africa using an Iterative Bayesian Network Development Cycle" (69) and "Translocation of problem predators: is it an effective way to mitigate conflict between farmers and cheetahsAcinonyx jubatusin Botswana?" (65).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation Sarah M. Durant et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 27 Dec 2016 218
2 Modelling cheetah relocation success in southern Africa using an Iterative Bayesian Network Development Cycle Sandra L. Johnson, Kerrie Lee Mengersen, Alta de Waal et al. · Ecological Modelling 18 Dec 2009 69
3 Translocation of problem predators: is it an effective way to mitigate conflict between farmers and cheetahsAcinonyx jubatusin Botswana? Lorraine K. Boast, Kyle Good, Rebecca Klein · Oryx Open access 20 May 2015 65
4 Multi-species occupancy modelling of a carnivore guild in wildlife management areas in the Kalahari Leanne K. Van der Weyde, Christopher Mbisana, Rebecca Klein · Biological Conservation 6 Feb 2018 59
5 Spoor density as a measure of true density of a known population of free‐ranging wild cheetah in Botswana AnnMarie Houser, Michael J.G. Somers, Lorraine K. Boast · Journal of Zoology 13 Mar 2009 43
All 42 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Kalahari Conservation Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Economic and Environmental Valuation, Coastal and Marine Management, Global Maternal and Child Health and Health and Conflict Studies.

Economic and Environment…0Economic and Environmental Valuation: 0 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Manag…0Coastal and Marine Management: 0 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Chil…0Global Maternal and Child Health: 0 fractional worksHealth and Conflict Stud…0Health and Conflict Studies: 0 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…0Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 0 fractional worksWildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation: 0 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 0 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 0 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthGeneral Health Professions3 others

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

  1. 1 Economic and Environmental Valuation Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  2. 2 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  3. 3 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  4. 4 Health and Conflict Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  6. 6 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 0 works
  9. 9 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available53.8%not open46.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors68.9%domestic only31.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kalahari Conservation Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% 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 Kalahari Conservation Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000054% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%Kalahari Conservation Society0.0000036% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Kalahari Conservation Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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