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Missouri Botanical Garden

In research, Missouri Botanical Garden stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,305 of 3,409 worldwide), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (#156 of 255 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#5,511 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences — Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 63.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#10,626
of 28,054 · #5,858 all time
Rank in United States
#1,438
of 4,192
Research works
3.7k
▼ 5% vs 2013–17
Citations
84k
22.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

What is Missouri Botanical Garden known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,305 of 3,409 7.8%256 #380
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield #156 of 255 11.4%114 #93
Life SciencesDomain #5,511 of 7,800 7.8%312 #2844
Plant ScienceSubfield #1,279 of 1,395 4.7%102 #824

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Missouri Botanical Garden 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#380 #1,305
  2. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics#93 #156
  3. Life Sciences#2,844 #5,511
  4. Plant Science#824 #1,279
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Missouri Botanical Garden specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 63.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 113.8 works63×
  2. Plant ScienceSubfield · 102.1 works15×
  3. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 256.3 works14×
← 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: 14.10× its world share, 256 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.46× its world share, 50 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.45× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.45× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.67× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.20× its world share, 23 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 16 worksMedicineNursing: 1.51× its world share, 3 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 14.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Missouri Botanical Garden?

Ranked on the composite score, Peter H. Raven, Alwyn H. Gentry and Peter F. Stevens lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Missouri Botanical Garden.

  1. 1 Peter H. Raven United States · #14,440 worldwide 1.3k citations · 183 works
  2. 2 Alwyn H. Gentry United States · #23,538 worldwide 970 citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Peter F. Stevens United States · #59,295 worldwide 335 citations · 33 works
  4. 4 Dorothea Bedigian United States · #126,200 worldwide 152 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Ihsan A. Al‐Shehbaz United States · #184,357 worldwide 262 citations · 87 works
  6. 6 Richard A. Howard United States · #265,533 worldwide 130 citations · 65 works
  7. 7 Robert E. Magill United States · #313,326 worldwide 67 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 W. G. D'Arcy United States · #318,368 worldwide 114 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Richard H. Zander United States · #329,926 worldwide 141 citations · 41 works
  10. 10 Li‐Bing Zhang United States · #330,214 worldwide 141 citations · 54 works
All ranked researchers at Missouri Botanical Garden

Which keywords describe research at Missouri Botanical Garden?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biogeography, Medicinal Plants, Phylogeny, Antioxidant, Taxonomy, Invasive Species, Biodiversity and Habitat Fragmentation.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Biogeography119▲ 119×15 topics
  2. Medicinal Plants79▲ 51×15 topics
  3. Phylogeny64▲ 111×9 topics
  4. Antioxidant53▲ 20×32 topics
  5. Taxonomy50▲ 101×8 topics
  6. Invasive Species49▲ 30×13 topics
  7. Biodiversity48▲ 17×16 topics
  8. Climate Change48▲ 4.7×41 topics
  9. Habitat Fragmentation40▲ 47×5 topics
  10. Molecular Phylogeny38▲ 63×7 topics
  11. Herbal Medicine36▲ 33×9 topics
  12. Antioxidant Activity34▲ 14×19 topics
  13. Angiosperm Phylogeny33▲ 333×1 topic
  14. Flowering Plants33▲ 333×1 topic
  15. Phylogenetics33▲ 194×2 topics
  16. Conservation31▲ 19×13 topics
  17. Ethnobotanical Survey30▲ 252×1 topic
  18. Traditional Ecological Knowledge30▲ 184×1 topic
  19. Global Change28▲ 28×4 topics
  20. Anti-inflammatory26▲ 25×22 topics
  21. molecular systematics25▲ 271×2 topics
  22. Phylogenetic Analysis24▲ 20×13 topics
  23. Mosses23▲ 235×2 topics
  24. Ecosystem Services23▲ 16×9 topics
  25. Biological Activities21▲ 35×7 topics
  26. Polyploidy21▲ 119×4 topics
  27. Plant-Animal Interactions21▲ 64×1 topic
  28. Pollinator Decline21▲ 64×1 topic
  29. Evolution20▲ 21×7 topics
  30. Flavonoids16▲ 16×8 topics
  31. Gesneriaceae16▲ 247×1 topic
  32. phylogenetic reconstruction16▲ 247×1 topic
  33. Biodiversity Conservation16▲ 11×12 topics
  34. Nutritional Value15▲ 36×3 topics
  35. Sustainable Agriculture15▲ 12×10 topics
  36. Phytochemical Analysis15▲ 51×3 topics
  37. Cyperus15▲ 312×1 topic
  38. essential oil15▲ 312×1 topic
  39. Adaptive Radiation14▲ 127×2 topics
  40. Secondary Metabolites14▲ 48×2 topics

Which research topics does Missouri Botanical Garden publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Plant Diversity and Evolution, Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies, Plant and animal studies and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions.

Plant Diversity and Evolution: 33 fractional worksEthnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies: 30 fractional worksPlant and animal studies21Plant and animal studies: 21 fractional worksPlant and Fungal Species…16Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions: 16 fractional worksBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies: 15 fractional worksFern and Epiphyte Biology: 14 fractional worksBryophyte Studies and Re…12Bryophyte Studies and Records: 12 fractional worksAfrican Botany and Ecology Studies: 12 fractional worksLichen and fungal ecology: 11 fractional worksBotany and Plant Ecology Studies: 10 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsPlant ScienceMolecular BiologyForestry

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

  1. 1 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 33 works
  2. 2 Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies Plant Science 30 works
  3. 3 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 21 works
  4. 4 Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions Molecular Biology 16 works
  5. 5 Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies Plant Science 15 works
  6. 6 Fern and Epiphyte Biology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 14 works
  7. 7 Bryophyte Studies and Records Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 12 works
  8. 8 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 12 works
  9. 9 Lichen and fungal ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 11 works
  10. 10 Botany and Plant Ecology Studies Plant Science 10 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 available53.6%not open46.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.7%domestic only67.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Missouri Botanical Garden's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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