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Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

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Research works
5
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
73
14.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
15%
world 40%
International
44%
world 18%
Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Not ranked overall: Mabula Ground Hornbill Project is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Mabula Ground Hornbill Project work in?

In all years, 49% of research at Mabula Ground Hornbill Project is in Physical Sciences, 36% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (49%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (22%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 49.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 49.0% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 24.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 13.1% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 36.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 22.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 20.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 10.5% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 8.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 8.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 8.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workALL ITS WORKMabula GroundHornbill Project5fractional works, all years
Life Sciences36%Physical Sciences49%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences8%

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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science349.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences122.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology110.5%
    3. Neuroscience03.3%
    1. Psychology08.2%
    1. Medicine03.3%
    2. Veterinary02.9%
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: 6.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.24× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 7.84× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceVeterinary: 35.19× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryPsychology: 4.71× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 35.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary35.19×0 works
  2. Environmental Science7.84×1 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.07×0 works
  4. Psychology4.71×0 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.24×0 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.72×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Mabula Ground Hornbill Project?

Ranked on the quality score, Lucy Valeska Kemp lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mabula Ground Hornbill Project.

  1. 1 Lucy Valeska Kemp South Africa · #2,397,047 worldwide 172 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

What are the most cited papers from Mabula Ground Hornbill Project?

The most cited paper from Mabula Ground Hornbill Project is "Visual fields in hornbills: precision‐grasping and sunshades" (Graham R. Martin, Hendri C. Coetzee, 2003), with 80 citations. Next come "Addressing the Biodiversity Paradox: Mismatch between the Co-Occurrence of Biological Diversity and the Human, Financial and Institutional Resources to Address Its Decline" (38) and "An African perspective to biodiversity conservation in the twenty-first century" (27).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Visual fields in hornbills: precision‐grasping and sunshades Graham R. Martin, Hendri C. Coetzee · Ibis 18 Dec 2003 80
2 Addressing the Biodiversity Paradox: Mismatch between the Co-Occurrence of Biological Diversity and the Human, Financial and Institutional Resources to Address Its Decline Jon Paul Rodrı́guez et al. · Diversity Open access 26 Aug 2022 38
3 An African perspective to biodiversity conservation in the twenty-first century Simeon Bezeng Bezeng et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 9 Jan 2025 27
4 The beak and unfeathered skin as heat radiators in the southern ground‐hornbill Andries K. Janse van Vuuren, Lucy Valeska Kemp, Andrew E. McKechnie · Journal of Avian Biology 6 Apr 2020 23
5 Review of trial reintroductions of the long-lived, cooperative breeding Southern Ground-hornbill Lucy Valeska Kemp, Antoinette Kotzé, Raymond Jansen et al. · Bird Conservation International 27 Apr 2020 21
All 23 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Mabula Ground Hornbill Project publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology and Avian ecology and behavior.

Animal Behavior and Repr…0Animal Behavior and Reproduction: 0 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 0 fractional worksPrimate Behavior and Ecology: 0 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksAnimal Vocal Communication and Behavior: 0 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcologySocial PsychologyDevelopmental Biology1 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Behavior and Reproduction Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  2. 2 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  3. 3 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  5. 5 Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior Developmental Biology 0 works
  6. 6 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 0 works
  7. 7 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  10. 10 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 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 available15.0%not open85.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors43.9%domestic only56.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mabula Ground Hornbill Project's research output changed?

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

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