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Livestock Improvement Corporation

In research, Livestock Improvement Corporation stands highest in Life Sciences (#4,034 of 11,023 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Life Sciences (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology is 8.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#26,118
of 34,923
Rank in New Zealand
#91
of 104
Research works
258
▲ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
7k
27.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.89×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Livestock Improvement Corporation

What is Livestock Improvement Corporation 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 #4,034 of 11,023 13.2%168

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Livestock Improvement Corporation 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 Livestock Improvement Corporation work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at Livestock Improvement Corporation is in Life Sciences, 13% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (45%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (23%), Environmental Science (10%). It does 3.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 32 fractional works · 69.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 21 fractional works · 45.1% of its workGenetics: 18 fractional works · 38.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 23.1% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 4 fractional works · 9.0% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 6.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 12.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 9.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 11.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 6.4% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEquine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKLivestockImprovement…46fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences70%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences11%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2145.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1123.1%
    3. Neuroscience11.5%
    1. Environmental Science49.7%
    2. Computer Science11.1%
    3. Mathematics00.7%
    4. Chemistry00.6%
    5. Engineering00.2%
    6. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    1. Social Sciences24.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities12.9%
    3. Psychology12.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.8%
    5. Decision Sciences00.0%
    1. Medicine13.0%
    2. Veterinary11.9%
    3. Health Professions01.0%
    4. Nursing00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Livestock Improvement Corporation specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology takes 8.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField · 20.8 works8.5×
  2. Life SciencesDomain · 32.1 works5.3×
← 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: 4.85× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8.46× its world share, 21 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.96× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 14.33× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.00× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 14.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary14.33×1 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8.46×21 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.85×11 works
  4. Environmental Science1.96×4 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.00×1 works
  6. Nursing0.95×0 works
  7. Psychology0.95×1 works
  8. Neuroscience0.89×1 works
  9. Mathematics0.61×0 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.52×0 works
  11. Health Professions0.37×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.37×2 works
  13. Chemistry0.36×0 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.25×0 works
  15. Medicine0.16×1 works
  16. Computer Science0.14×0 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.09×0 works
  18. Decision Sciences0.05×0 works
  19. Engineering0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Livestock Improvement Corporation?

Ranked on the quality score, Mathew D. Littlejohn, Thomas John Lopdell and Richard J. Spelman lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Livestock Improvement Corporation.

  1. 1 Mathew D. Littlejohn New Zealand · #427,155 worldwide 2.6k citations · 100 works
  2. 2 Thomas John Lopdell New Zealand · #557,042 worldwide 1.4k citations · 71 works
  3. 3 Richard J. Spelman New Zealand · #589,925 worldwide 6.3k citations · 116 works
  4. 4 Stephen R. Davis New Zealand · #708,943 worldwide 6k citations · 145 works
  5. 5 Kathryn Tiplady New Zealand · #918,368 worldwide 1.1k citations · 50 works
  6. 6 Thomas Johnson New Zealand · #984,561 worldwide 1.3k citations · 45 works
  7. 7 Chad Harland New Zealand · #1,332,627 worldwide 1.1k citations · 48 works
  8. 8 J. Arias New Zealand · #1,356,091 worldwide 913 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Christine Couldrey New Zealand · #1,422,880 worldwide 3.1k citations · 93 works
  10. 10 Ramakrishnan Vishwanath New Zealand · #1,424,899 worldwide 2.2k citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at Livestock Improvement Corporation

What are the most cited papers from Livestock Improvement Corporation?

The most cited paper from Livestock Improvement Corporation is "Hot topic: A unified approach to utilize phenotypic, full pedigree, and genomic information for genetic evaluation of Holstein final score" (Ignácio Aguilar, I. Misztal, D. L. Johnson et al., 2010), with 1,566 citations. Next come "Positional Candidate Cloning of a QTL in Dairy Cattle: Identification of a Missense Mutation in the Bovine DGAT1 Gene with Major Effect on Milk Yield and Composition" (985) and "De novo assembly of the cattle reference genome with single-molecule sequencing" (943).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Hot topic: A unified approach to utilize phenotypic, full pedigree, and genomic information for genetic evaluation of Holstein final score Ignácio Aguilar, I. Misztal, D. L. Johnson et al. · Journal of Dairy Science Open access Feb 2010 1,566
2 Positional Candidate Cloning of a QTL in Dairy Cattle: Identification of a Missense Mutation in the Bovine DGAT1 Gene with Major Effect on Milk Yield and Composition Bernard Grisart, Wouter R. Coppieters, Frédéric Farnir et al. · Genome Research Open access Feb 2002 985
3 De novo assembly of the cattle reference genome with single-molecule sequencing Benjamin D. Rosen et al. · GigaScience Open access Mar 2020 943
4 Linkage Disequilibrium and Persistence of Phase in Holstein–Friesian, Jersey and Angus Cattle A.P.W. de Roos, Ben J. Hayes, Richard J. Spelman et al. · Genetics Open access Jul 2008 514
5 Molecular Dissection of a Quantitative Trait Locus: A Phenylalanine-to-Tyrosine Substitution in the Transmembrane Domain of the Bovine Growth Hormone Receptor Is Associated With a Major Effect on Milk Yield and Composition Sarah C Blott, Jong-Joo Kim, Sirja Moisio et al. · Genetics 2003 425
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Livestock Improvement Corporation?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Marker-Assisted Selection, Plant Breeding, Population Genetics, Genetic Diversity, Genome-Wide Association, Animal Breeding, Genomic Selection and Genetic Variation.

▲ 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 33 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 33 words, with their numbers
  1. Marker-Assisted Selection14▲ 405×2 topics
  2. Plant Breeding12▲ 271×2 topics
  3. Population Genetics10▲ 152×4 topics
  4. Genetic Diversity10▲ 47×4 topics
  5. Genome-Wide Association9▲ 255×2 topics
  6. Animal Breeding9▲ 447×1 topic
  7. Genomic Selection9▲ 447×1 topic
  8. Genetic Variation6▲ 59×2 topics
  9. Crop Improvement6▲ 259×2 topics
  10. QTL Mapping6▲ 109×2 topics
  11. Genome-wide Association Studies6▲ 445×1 topic
  12. Quantitative Trait Loci6▲ 220×1 topic
  13. Milk Composition3▲ 158×2 topics
  14. Genetic Improvement3▲ 72×2 topics
  15. Cultivar Evaluation3▲ 275×1 topic
  16. Genotype-by-Environment Interaction3▲ 275×1 topic
  17. Climate Change3▲ 2.1×12 topics
  18. Animal Welfare2▲ 56×3 topics
  19. Microbial Community2▲ 60×3 topics
  20. Methane Production2▲ 163×1 topic
  21. Ruminant Nutrition2▲ 163×1 topic
  22. Dairy Cattle2▲ 70×2 topics
  23. Gene Expression2▲ 5.8×5 topics
  24. Cancer1▲ 2.0×4 topics
  25. Livestock Production1▲ 31×2 topics
  26. Antimicrobial Resistance1▲ 13×2 topics
  27. Genomic Integration1▲ 47×2 topics
  28. Epigenetic Regulation1▲ 11×3 topics
  29. Bovine Mastitis1▲ 150×1 topic
  30. Experiential Learning1▲ 43×3 topics
  31. Genetic Modification1▲ 129×1 topic
  32. Milk Quality1▲ 150×1 topic
  33. Transgenic Animals1▲ 129×1 topic

Which research topics does Livestock Improvement Corporation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetics and Plant Breeding and Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology.

Genetic and phenotypic t…9Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 9 fractional worksGenetic Mapping and Dive…6Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals: 6 fractional worksGenetics and Plant Breed…3Genetics and Plant Breeding: 3 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and D…2Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 2 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 1 fractional worksAnimal Genetics and Reproduction: 1 fractional worksMilk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows: 1 fractional worksEffects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock: 1 fractional worksReproductive Physiology in Livestock: 1 fractional worksGenomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities: 1 fractional works
GeneticsPlant ScienceAgronomy and Crop ScienceCancer Research1 others

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

  1. 1 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 9 works
  2. 2 Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals Genetics 6 works
  3. 3 Genetics and Plant Breeding Plant Science 3 works
  4. 4 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 2 works
  5. 5 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 1 works
  6. 6 Animal Genetics and Reproduction Genetics 1 works
  7. 7 Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows Agronomy and Crop Science 1 works
  8. 8 Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock Animal Science and Zoology 1 works
  9. 9 Reproductive Physiology in Livestock Agronomy and Crop Science 1 works
  10. 10 Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities Genetics 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 available58.1%not open41.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.3%domestic only73.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Livestock Improvement Corporation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher 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 Livestock Improvement Corporation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00010% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Livestock Improvement Corporation0.00018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Livestock Improvement Corporation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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