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Morton Arboretum

In research, Morton Arboretum stands highest in Physical Sciences (#10,253 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Environmental Chemistry and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Environmental Chemistry is 89.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#21,736
of 22,385 · #25,840 all time
Rank in United States
#3,228
of 3,332
Research works
315
▲ 95% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.8k
21.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.88×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Morton Arboretum

What is Morton Arboretum known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #10,253 of 10,670 10.3%93 #15374

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Morton Arboretum 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 Morton Arboretum work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Morton Arboretum is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (39%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (20%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 96 fractional works · 78.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 47 fractional works · 38.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 24 fractional works · 19.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 7 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 24 fractional works · 19.7% of its workGeophysics: 12 fractional works · 9.8% of its workOceanography: 11 fractional works · 9.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 12 fractional works · 9.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 12 fractional works · 9.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 11 fractional works · 9.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 11 fractional works · 9.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 24 fractional works · 19.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 17 fractional works · 13.6% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 4.0% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 5.7% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKMorton Arboretum122fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences2%

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. Environmental Science4738.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2419.7%
    3. Computer Science129.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy119.4%
    5. Engineering11.0%
    6. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1713.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology75.7%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Psychology10.6%
    2. Social Sciences10.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.0%
    1. Medicine00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Morton Arboretum specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Chemistry takes 89.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 23.8 works89×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 24.1 works13×
← 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: 2.86× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.07× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 1.27× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12.58× its world share, 24 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.78× its world share, 47 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 4.21× its world share, 11 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× 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, 12.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.58×24 works
  2. Environmental Science7.78×47 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy4.21×11 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.86×17 works
  5. Computer Science1.27×12 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.07×7 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.19×0 works
  8. Psychology0.19×1 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×0 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.09×0 works
  11. Engineering0.06×1 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.04×1 works
  14. Mathematics0.02×0 works
  15. Medicine0.02×0 works
  16. Decision Sciences0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Morton Arboretum?

Ranked on the quality score, Michael McCormack, Sean Hoban and Andrew L. Hipp lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Morton Arboretum.

  1. 1 Michael McCormack United States · #20,419 worldwide 16k citations · 528 works
  2. 2 Sean Hoban United States · #32,901 worldwide 8.9k citations · 168 works
  3. 3 Andrew L. Hipp United States · #95,231 worldwide 10k citations · 213 works
  4. 4 Christine R. Rollinson United States · #515,702 worldwide 1.4k citations · 67 works
  5. 5 Meghan G. Midgley United States · #555,948 worldwide 1.8k citations · 380 works
  6. 6 Murphy Westwood United States · #633,716 worldwide 845 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Silvia Álvarez-Clare United States · #688,114 worldwide 1.5k citations · 37 works
  8. 8 Lindsay Darling United States · #741,245 worldwide 909 citations · 36 works
  9. 9 Marlene Hahn United States · #781,370 worldwide 1.9k citations · 41 works
  10. 10 Bryant C. Scharenbroch United States · #1,059,913 worldwide 1.8k citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at Morton Arboretum

What are the most cited papers from Morton Arboretum?

The most cited paper from Morton Arboretum is "TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access" (Jens Kattge et al., 2019), with 2,168 citations. Next come "The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants" (1,042) and "Finding the Genomic Basis of Local Adaptation: Pitfalls, Practical Solutions, and Future Directions" (959).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access Jens Kattge et al. · Global Change Biology Open access729 authors 31 Dec 2019 2,168
2 The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants Joana Bergmann, Alexandra Weigelt, Fons van der Plas et al. · Science Advances Open access Jul 2020 1,042
3 Finding the Genomic Basis of Local Adaptation: Pitfalls, Practical Solutions, and Future Directions Sean Hoban, Joanna L. Kelley, Katie E. Lotterhos et al. · The American Naturalist Open access 15 Aug 2016 959
4 Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs Grégoire T. Freschet et al. · New Phytologist Open access 7 Nov 2020 834
5 A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements Grégoire T. Freschet et al. · New Phytologist Open access 5 Oct 2021 672
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Morton Arboretum?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Microbial Communities, Anaerobic, Methane Oxidation, Citizen Science, Earthquake Detection, Seismic Noise and Seismic Signals.

▲ 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 Change26▲ 7.7×25 topics
  2. Microbial Communities25▲ 46×3 topics
  3. Anaerobic23▲ 298×1 topic
  4. Methane Oxidation23▲ 243×1 topic
  5. Citizen Science15▲ 124×2 topics
  6. Machine Learning13▲ 3.1×2 topics
  7. Earthquake Detection12▲ 467×1 topic
  8. Seismic Noise12▲ 206×1 topic
  9. Seismic Signals12▲ 467×1 topic
  10. Tomography12▲ 55×1 topic
  11. Biodiversity11▲ 12×12 topics
  12. GRACE11▲ 193×1 topic
  13. Ionosphere11▲ 169×1 topic
  14. Magnetosphere11▲ 169×1 topic
  15. Sea Level Rise11▲ 74×1 topic
  16. Invasive Species10▲ 18×12 topics
  17. Global Change7▲ 21×4 topics
  18. Conservation6▲ 11×6 topics
  19. Habitat Fragmentation6▲ 22×2 topics
  20. Biodiversity Conservation5▲ 12×11 topics
  21. Ecosystem Services5▲ 11×8 topics
  22. Biological Invasions5▲ 47×2 topics
  23. Ecosystem5▲ 35×3 topics
  24. Genetic Diversity4▲ 8.3×5 topics
  25. Population Dynamics4▲ 13×4 topics
  26. Population Genetics4▲ 25×3 topics
  27. Genetic Structure4▲ 43×2 topics
  28. Species Delimitation4▲ 69×2 topics
  29. Adaptive Evolution4▲ 54×2 topics
  30. Community Ecology4▲ 37×2 topics
  31. Bayesian Inference4▲ 31×1 topic
  32. Biomass Estimation4▲ 19×3 topics
  33. Microsatellite Analysis4▲ 103×1 topic
  34. Functional Diversity4▲ 54×1 topic
  35. Species Richness4▲ 46×1 topic
  36. Conservation Biology4▲ 27×3 topics
  37. Ecological Niche3▲ 47×1 topic
  38. Species Distribution Modeling3▲ 47×1 topic
  39. Ecosystem Functioning3▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 7.9×9 topics

Which research topics does Morton Arboretum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Seismology and Earthquake Studies and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Methane Hydrates and Rel…23Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 23 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis: 12 fractional worksSeismology and Earthquake Studies: 12 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity M…11Geophysics and Gravity Measurements: 11 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…11Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 11 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 4 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 4 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 3 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 2 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 2 fractional works
Environmental ChemistryGeophysicsArtificial IntelligenceOceanography5 others

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

  1. 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 23 works
  2. 2 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 12 works
  3. 3 Seismology and Earthquake Studies Artificial Intelligence 12 works
  4. 4 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 11 works
  5. 5 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 11 works
  6. 6 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 4 works
  7. 7 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 4 works
  8. 8 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 3 works
  9. 9 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  10. 10 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2 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 available66.9%not open33.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.4%domestic only77.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Morton Arboretum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 95% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Morton Arboretum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00081% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Morton Arboretum0.00088% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Morton Arboretum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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