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Korea Forest Service

In research, Korea Forest Service stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,730 of 3,157 worldwide), Plant Science (#739 of 1,317 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#3,840 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Plant Science (Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 18.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,711
of 22,385 · #15,636 all time
Rank in South Korea
#226
of 343
Research works
1.9k
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
26k
13.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.74×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
70%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Korea Forest Service

What is Korea Forest Service 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
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,730 of 3,157 8.8%174 #2085
Plant ScienceSubfield #739 of 1,317 9.3%96 #1235
Life SciencesDomain #3,840 of 6,403 7.3%267 #4453
Environmental ScienceField #2,435 of 3,334 5.1%114 #3443
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,275 of 2,964 3.7%82 #3457
Physical SciencesDomain #9,871 of 10,670 5.5%180 #13687

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Korea Forest Service 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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#2,085 #1,730
  2. Plant Science#1,235 #739
  3. Life Sciences#4,453 #3,840
  4. Environmental Science#3,443 #2,435
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#3,457 #2,275
  6. Physical Sciences#13,687 #9,871
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 Korea Forest Service work in?

In 2022-now, 53% of research at Korea Forest Service is in Life Sciences, 37% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (35%), Environmental Science (24%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%). It does 3.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 299 fractional works · 53.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 196 fractional works · 34.9% of its workPlant Science: 105 fractional works · 18.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 48 fractional works · 8.5% of its workInsect Science: 19 fractional works · 3.5% of its workFood Science: 13 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSoil Science: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 92 fractional works · 16.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 60 fractional works · 10.8% of its workCell Biology: 14 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGenetics: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEndocrinology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 205 fractional works · 36.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 132 fractional works · 23.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 30 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEcology: 25 fractional works · 4.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 23 fractional works · 4.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 16 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 16 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcological Modeling: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 40 fractional works · 7.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomaterials: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 39 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMedicine: 35 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPharmacology: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiochemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKorea ForestService561fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences53%Physical Sciences37%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences3%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences19634.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9216.3%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics71.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology30.5%
    5. Neuroscience20.4%
    1. Environmental Science13223.6%
    2. Engineering407.0%
    3. Materials Science101.9%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences101.8%
    5. Chemistry71.2%
    6. Computer Science40.8%
    7. Energy10.1%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    9. Mathematics00.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine356.3%
    2. Health Professions20.4%
    3. Nursing20.3%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences50.9%
    2. Psychology40.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting30.5%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Korea Forest Service specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 18.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 47.7 works18×
  2. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 23.1 works17×
  3. Plant ScienceSubfield · 105.0 works11×
  4. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 195.6 works7.3×
← 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: 7.34× its world share, 196 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.06× its world share, 92 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.50× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.52× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.77× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.17× its world share, 10 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.47× its world share, 40 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.74× its world share, 132 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.54× its world share, 10 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.33× its world share, 35 worksMedicineNursing: 0.59× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences7.34×196 works
  2. Environmental Science4.74×132 works
  3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.52×7 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.06×92 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.17×10 works
  6. Chemistry0.77×7 works
  7. Nursing0.59×2 works
  8. Veterinary0.58×0 works
  9. Materials Science0.54×10 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.50×3 works
  11. Engineering0.47×40 works
  12. Medicine0.33×35 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.26×3 works
  14. Psychology0.25×4 works
  15. Neuroscience0.24×2 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.17×3 works
  17. Health Professions0.13×2 works
  18. Energy0.11×1 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.11×2 works
  20. Computer Science0.10×4 works
  21. Decision Sciences0.08×0 works
  22. Social Sciences0.07×5 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.06×0 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.04×0 works
  25. Mathematics0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Korea Forest Service?

Ranked on the quality score, Jaegyoung Gwon, Sang‐Jin Chun and In-Aeh Kang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Korea Forest Service.

  1. 1 Jaegyoung Gwon South Korea · #984,802 worldwide 2.9k citations · 86 works
  2. 2 Sang‐Jin Chun South Korea · #1,767,753 worldwide 1k citations · 33 works
  3. 3 In-Aeh Kang South Korea · #1,872,287 worldwide 1.1k citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Eung‐Jun Park South Korea · #2,030,878 worldwide 2.2k citations · 90 works
  5. 5 Don‐Ha Choi South Korea · #2,084,441 worldwide 2.5k citations · 96 works
  6. 6 Sun-Young Lee South Korea · #2,452,308 worldwide 1.2k citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Geum Hyun Doh South Korea · #2,459,042 worldwide 561 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Sun-Young Lee South Korea · #2,494,153 worldwide 1.7k citations · 43 works
  9. 9 Geum-Hyun Doh South Korea · #2,613,604 worldwide 871 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Jung‐Hwa Chun South Korea · #2,700,134 worldwide 1.3k citations · 44 works
All ranked researchers at Korea Forest Service

What are the most cited papers from Korea Forest Service?

The most cited paper from Korea Forest Service is "A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests" (Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Haroun Chenchouni et al., 2009), with 7,876 citations. Next come "Cellulose Nanoparticles: Structure–Morphology–Rheology Relationships" (489) and "ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station" (482).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Haroun Chenchouni et al. · Forest Ecology and Management Open access 22 Oct 2009 7,876
2 Cellulose Nanoparticles: Structure–Morphology–Rheology Relationships Mei‐Chun Li, Qinglin Wu, Kunlin Song et al. · ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 30 Mar 2015 489
3 ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station Joshua B. Fisher et al. · Seoul National University Open Repository (Seoul National University) Apr 2020 482
4 All-Solid-State Flexible Supercapacitors Fabricated with Bacterial Nanocellulose Papers, Carbon Nanotubes, and Triblock-Copolymer Ion Gels Yu Kang, Sang-Jin Chun, Sung-Suk Lee et al. · ACS Nano 20 Jun 2012 480
5 BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene María Dornelas et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography Open access270 authors Jul 2018 457
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Korea Forest Service?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Conservation, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity Conservation, Flora and Vascular Plants.

▲ 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 Change111▲ 7.3×47 topics
  2. Invasive Species68▲ 28×19 topics
  3. Conservation43▲ 18×14 topics
  4. Biodiversity36▲ 8.5×20 topics
  5. Ecosystem Services36▲ 16×7 topics
  6. Biodiversity Conservation33▲ 15×10 topics
  7. Flora31▲ 216×2 topics
  8. Vascular Plants31▲ 216×2 topics
  9. Global Change30▲ 20×5 topics
  10. Endemic Species30▲ 1096×1 topic
  11. Korean Peninsula30▲ 1096×1 topic
  12. Remote Sensing29▲ 4.3×20 topics
  13. Phylogenetic Analysis29▲ 16×8 topics
  14. Antioxidant Activity28▲ 8.0×19 topics
  15. Biomass Estimation25▲ 29×3 topics
  16. Biogeography25▲ 16×13 topics
  17. Antioxidant25▲ 6.4×31 topics
  18. Habitat Fragmentation24▲ 20×4 topics
  19. Medicinal Plants21▲ 9.8×15 topics
  20. Aboveground Biomass18▲ 38×2 topics
  21. Host Specificity18▲ 28×5 topics
  22. Ecosystem Resilience17▲ 19×5 topics
  23. Taxonomy16▲ 20×11 topics
  24. Anti-inflammatory16▲ 10.0×19 topics
  25. Biological Invasions16▲ 31×3 topics
  26. Crop Yield16▲ 61×3 topics
  27. Fungal Pathogens16▲ 21×4 topics
  28. Plant-Animal Interactions15▲ 33×1 topic
  29. Pollinator Decline15▲ 33×1 topic
  30. Biological Control14▲ 17×9 topics
  31. Flavonoids14▲ 10×9 topics
  32. Biological Activities14▲ 16×7 topics
  33. Ecosystem Functioning14▲ 12×6 topics
  34. Land Use Change14▲ 8.1×6 topics
  35. Endophytic Fungi14▲ 26×2 topics
  36. Molecular Identification13▲ 36×2 topics
  37. Phylogeny13▲ 14×13 topics
  38. Genomic Characterization13▲ 18×1 topic
  39. Plant Pathogenesis13▲ 37×1 topic
  40. Structural Equation Modeling12▲ 11×2 topics

Which research topics does Korea Forest Service publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ecology and Conservation Studies, Plant and animal studies, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases and Urban Green Space and Health.

Ecology and Conservation…30Ecology and Conservation Studies: 30 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 15 fractional worksPlant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases: 13 fractional worksUrban Green Space and Health: 11 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 10 fractional worksAgriculture, Soil, Plant Science: 10 fractional worksGenomics and Phylogeneti…8Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies: 8 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 8 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 8 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 8 fractional works
Plant ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsCell BiologyHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis4 others

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

  1. 1 Ecology and Conservation Studies Plant Science 30 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 15 works
  3. 3 Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Cell Biology 13 works
  4. 4 Urban Green Space and Health Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 11 works
  5. 5 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 10 works
  6. 6 Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 10 works
  7. 7 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Molecular Biology 8 works
  8. 8 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 8 works
  9. 9 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 8 works
  10. 10 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 8 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 available70.2%not open29.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.2%domestic only78.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Korea Forest Service's research output changed?

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

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Korea Forest Service as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Korea Forest Service0.0020% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Korea Forest Service 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Korea Forest Service5.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.6% in 2009.

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