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In research, Milwaukee Public Museum stands highest in Life Sciences (#6,012 of 11,023 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#16,321 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#22,314
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#4,651
of 7,310
Research works
356
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.9k
19.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
Milwaukee Public Museum

What is Milwaukee Public Museum 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 #6,012 of 11,023 5.5%120
Physical SciencesDomain #16,321 of 17,446 8.8%154

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Milwaukee Public Museum 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 Milwaukee Public Museum work in?

In 2022-now, 47% of research at Milwaukee Public Museum is in Life Sciences, 44% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (28%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (19%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 17 fractional works · 47.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 27.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 fractional works · 16.3% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 6.2% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 18.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 7.0% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 5.8% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 43.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 19.3% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 8.5% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 16.4% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 6.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 5.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workALL ITS WORKMilwaukee PublicMuseum35fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences47%Physical Sciences44%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences6%

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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1027.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology718.7%
    3. Neuroscience00.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences719.3%
    2. Environmental Science616.4%
    3. Engineering26.5%
    4. Computer Science00.9%
    5. Chemistry00.5%
    6. Mathematics00.3%
    1. Social Sciences12.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities11.9%
    3. Psychology00.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Medicine12.5%
    2. Nursing00.9%
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: 5.83× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.50× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12.31× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.30× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 1.93× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 12.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.31×7 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5.83×10 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.50×7 works
  4. Environmental Science3.30×6 works
  5. Nursing1.93×0 works
  6. Arts and Humanities0.65×1 works
  7. Engineering0.43×2 works
  8. Neuroscience0.39×0 works
  9. Chemistry0.30×0 works
  10. Mathematics0.27×0 works
  11. Psychology0.22×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.22×1 works
  13. Medicine0.13×1 works
  14. Computer Science0.12×0 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×0 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Milwaukee Public Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Merlin D. Tuttle, Peter M. F. Sheehan and Brendan J. Pinto lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Milwaukee Public Museum.

  1. 1 Merlin D. Tuttle United States · #565,706 worldwide 4k citations · 61 works
  2. 2 Peter M. F. Sheehan United States · #634,177 worldwide 5.6k citations · 156 works
  3. 3 Brendan J. Pinto United States · #1,135,304 worldwide 744 citations · 77 works
  4. 4 Stephan F. de Borhegyi United States · #1,191,089 worldwide 776 citations · 76 works
  5. 5 Nancy Oestreich Lurie United States · #1,677,317 worldwide 690 citations · 97 works
  6. 6 Nicolas Dowdy United States · #1,865,172 worldwide 291 citations · 61 works
  7. 7 Robert Eugene Ritzenthaler United States · #2,345,861 worldwide 291 citations · 43 works
  8. 8 Henry L. Ward United States · #2,834,138 worldwide 33 citations · 26 works
  9. 9 W. C. McKern United States · #2,865,416 worldwide 59 citations · 36 works
  10. 10 Christopher Dean Tyrrell United States · #2,910,219 worldwide 618 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Milwaukee Public Museum

What are the most cited papers from Milwaukee Public Museum?

The most cited paper from Milwaukee Public Museum is "The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction" (Peter M. F. Sheehan, 2001), with 541 citations. Next come "Bat Predation and the Evolution of Frog Vocalizations in the Neotropics" (483) and "A weathering hypothesis for glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician" (382).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction Peter M. F. Sheehan · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Review May 2001 541
2 Bat Predation and the Evolution of Frog Vocalizations in the Neotropics Merlin D. Tuttle, Michael J. Ryan · Science 6 Nov 1981 483
3 A weathering hypothesis for glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician Lee R. Kump, M. A. Arthur, Mark E. Patzkowsky et al. · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Aug 1999 382
4 A Review of Global Crayfish Introductions With Particular Emphasis On Two North American Species (Decapoda, Cambaridae) Horton Holcombe Hobbs, Joan P. Jass, Jay V. Huner · Crustaceana 1989 348
5 Onshore-Offshore Patterns in the Evolution of Phanerozoic Shelf Communities David Jablonski, J. John Sepkoski, David J. Bottjer et al. · Science 9 Dec 1983 312
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Milwaukee Public Museum?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Phylogenetic Analysis, Evolution, Phylogeny, Invasive Species and Taxonomy.

▲ 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 Change6▲ 6.7×21 topics
  2. Biogeography4▲ 42×13 topics
  3. Biodiversity4▲ 15×10 topics
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 31×12 topics
  5. Evolution3▲ 33×7 topics
  6. Phylogeny3▲ 52×8 topics
  7. Invasive Species3▲ 19×10 topics
  8. Taxonomy2▲ 47×6 topics
  9. Habitat Fragmentation2▲ 28×4 topics
  10. Adaptive Transport Networks2▲ 758×1 topic
  11. Physarum Polycephalum2▲ 758×1 topic
  12. Conservation2▲ 11×10 topics
  13. Molecular Phylogeny2▲ 28×8 topics
  14. Population Dynamics2▲ 17×6 topics
  15. Conservation Biology2▲ 40×2 topics
  16. DNA Barcoding2▲ 25×5 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services2▲ 11×4 topics
  18. Pharmacology2▲ 17×2 topics
  19. Morphology1▲ 23×4 topics
  20. Benthic Communities1▲ 58×2 topics
  21. Diversification1▲ 86×2 topics
  22. Marine Biodiversity1▲ 58×2 topics
  23. Marine Natural Products1▲ 86×1 topic
  24. Paleoproductivity1▲ 116×1 topic
  25. Paleoredox1▲ 116×1 topic
  26. Polyploidy1▲ 74×3 topics
  27. Sponge-Associated Microorganisms1▲ 259×1 topic
  28. Antioxidant Activity1▲ 5.3×6 topics
  29. Global Change1▲ 13×3 topics
  30. Medicinal Plants1▲ 8.7×3 topics
  31. Biodiversity Loss1▲ 55×3 topics
  32. Ecosystem Functioning1▲ 15×3 topics
  33. Holocene1▲ 28×2 topics
  34. Sea Level1▲ 33×2 topics
  35. Biological Activities1▲ 18×2 topics
  36. Ecosystem Resilience1▲ 19×3 topics
  37. Glacial Cycles1▲ 43×1 topic
  38. Inmigración y mercado de trabajo1▲ 499×1 topic
  39. Intercultural Education1▲ 37×1 topic
  40. Paleoclimatology1▲ 34×1 topic

Which research topics does Milwaukee Public Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research: 2 fractional worksMarine Sponges and Natural Products: 1 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratig…1Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 1 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimato…1Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 1 fractional worksImmigration and Intercultural Education: 1 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…1Species Distribution and Climate Change: 1 fractional worksColeoptera Taxonomy and Distribution: 1 fractional worksPlant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics: 1 fractional worksBioactive Natural Diterpenoids Research: 1 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringBiotechnologyPaleontologyAtmospheric Science4 others

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

  1. 1 Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Marine Sponges and Natural Products Biotechnology 1 works
  3. 3 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 1 works
  4. 4 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  5. 5 Immigration and Intercultural Education Cultural Studies 1 works
  6. 6 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  7. 7 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 1 works
  8. 8 Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  9. 9 Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  10. 10 Bioactive Natural Diterpenoids Research Molecular Biology 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 available27.0%not open73.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.2%domestic only88.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Milwaukee Public Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Milwaukee Public Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00011% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Milwaukee Public Museum0.00012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Milwaukee Public Museum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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