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Mifune Dinosaur Museum

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Research works
6
▲ 224% vs 2018-21
Citations
27
4.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
42%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Mifune Dinosaur Museum

Not ranked overall: Mifune Dinosaur Museum 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 Mifune Dinosaur Museum work in?

In all years, 78% of research at Mifune Dinosaur Museum is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (51%), Environmental Science (20%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 78.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 50.5% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 32.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 4.8% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 19.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 8.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 7.7% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 7.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 13.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.0% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 12.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMifune DinosaurMuseum6fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences78%Social Sciences14%

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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences350.5%
    2. Environmental Science119.7%
    3. Materials Science07.7%
    1. Social Sciences112.0%
    2. Psychology01.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences07.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.2%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Mifune Dinosaur Museum?

The most cited paper from Mifune Dinosaur Museum is "The turnover of continental planktonic diatoms near the middle/late Miocene boundary and their Cenozoic evolution" (Tatsuya Hayashi, William N. Krebs, Megumi Saito-Kato et al., 2018), with 18 citations. Next come "Paleoclimate and ecology of Cretaceous continental ecosystems of Japan inferred from the stable oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of vertebrate bioapatite" (16) and "Abrupt intensification of North Atlantic Deep Water formation at the Nordic Seas during the late Pliocene climate transition" (13).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The turnover of continental planktonic diatoms near the middle/late Miocene boundary and their Cenozoic evolution Tatsuya Hayashi, William N. Krebs, Megumi Saito-Kato et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 5 Jun 2018 18
2 Paleoclimate and ecology of Cretaceous continental ecosystems of Japan inferred from the stable oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of vertebrate bioapatite Romain Amiot, Nao Kusuhashi, Haruo Saegusa et al. · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences Open access 7 Nov 2020 16
3 Abrupt intensification of North Atlantic Deep Water formation at the Nordic Seas during the late Pliocene climate transition Masahiko Sato, Masato Makio, Tatsuya Hayashi et al. · Geophysical Research Letters 28 May 2015 13
4 A new species of Stegophiura (Ophiuroidea, Ophiopyrgidae) from the mid-Cretaceous of southern Japan Yoshiaki Ishida, Ben Thuy, Toshihiko Fujita et al. · Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 5 Oct 2018 12
5 Reassessment of an azhdarchid pterosaur specimen from the Mifune Group, Upper Cretaceous of Japan Xuanyu Zhou, Naoki Ikegami, Rodrigo V. Pêgas et al. · Cretaceous Research 16 Nov 2024 8
All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Mifune Dinosaur Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Australian Indigenous Culture and History, Mineralogy and Gemology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Australian Indigenous Culture and History: 0 fractional worksMineralogy and Gemology Studies: 0 fractional worksPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology: 0 fractional worksPaleontology and Evoluti…0Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 0 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 0 fractional worksEvolution and Paleontology Studies: 0 fractional worksCrustacean biology and ecology: 0 fractional worksParasite Biology and Host Interactions: 0 fractional worksCephalopods and Marine Biology: 0 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 0 fractional works
AnthropologyGeochemistry and PetrologyPaleontologyEcology1 others

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

  1. 1 Australian Indigenous Culture and History Anthropology 0 works
  2. 2 Mineralogy and Gemology Studies Geochemistry and Petrology 0 works
  3. 3 Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Anthropology 0 works
  4. 4 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 0 works
  5. 5 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 0 works
  6. 6 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 0 works
  7. 7 Crustacean biology and ecology Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Parasite Biology and Host Interactions Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Cephalopods and Marine Biology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  10. 10 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 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 available41.7%not open58.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.1%domestic only71.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mifune Dinosaur Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 224% higher than in 2018-2021.

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