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Municipality of Anchorage

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Research works
16
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
321
19.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Municipality of Anchorage

Not ranked overall: Municipality of Anchorage is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Municipality of Anchorage work in?

In all years, 63% of research at Municipality of Anchorage is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (27%), Engineering (18%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 62.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 27.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 15.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 17.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 17.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.7% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 14.8% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 8.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMunicipality ofAnchorage16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences63%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences18%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science427.2%
    2. Engineering317.8%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences18.4%
    4. Physics and Astronomy16.1%
    5. Chemistry02.0%
    6. Computer Science00.8%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.5%
    1. Social Sciences210.7%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting16.1%
    3. Psychology01.2%
    1. Health Professions18.4%
    2. Medicine15.4%
    3. Veterinary01.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.0%
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 Municipality of Anchorage?

The most cited paper from Municipality of Anchorage is "Increased coniferous needle inputs accelerate decomposition of soil carbon in an old-growth forest" (Susan E. Crow, Kate Lajtha, Richard D. Bowden et al., 2009), with 161 citations. Next come "Particulate air pollution and respiratory disease in Anchorage, Alaska." (111) and "Associations between Respiratory Illness and PM10Air Pollution" (80).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Increased coniferous needle inputs accelerate decomposition of soil carbon in an old-growth forest Susan E. Crow, Kate Lajtha, Richard D. Bowden et al. · Forest Ecology and Management 18 Mar 2009 161
2 Particulate air pollution and respiratory disease in Anchorage, Alaska. Mary Ellen Gordian, Halûk Özkaynak, Jian Xue et al. · Environmental Health Perspectives Open access Mar 1996 111
3 Associations between Respiratory Illness and PM10Air Pollution Askar H. Choudhury, Mary Ellen Gordian, Stephen S. Morris · Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal Mar 1997 80
4 Evaporative Gasoline Emissions and Asthma Symptoms Mary Ellen Gordian, Alistair W. Stewart, Stephen S. Morris · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Open access 4 Aug 2010 52
5 Depleted 15N in hydrolysable-N of arctic soils and its implication for mycorrhizal fungi–plant interaction Y. Yano, Gaius R. Shaver, Anne E. Giblin et al. · Biogeochemistry 8 Sep 2009 35
All 19 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Municipality of Anchorage publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Reproductive Physiology in Livestock and Migration, Health and Trauma.

Milk Quality and Mastiti…0Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows: 0 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welf…0Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional worksReproductive Physiology …0Reproductive Physiology in Livestock: 0 fractional worksMigration, Health and Tr…0Migration, Health and Trauma: 0 fractional worksGrief, Bereavement, and …0Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health: 0 fractional worksPosttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 0 fractional works
Agronomy and Crop ScienceSmall AnimalsClinical Psychology

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

  1. 1 Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows Agronomy and Crop Science 0 works
  2. 2 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 0 works
  3. 3 Reproductive Physiology in Livestock Agronomy and Crop Science 0 works
  4. 4 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 0 works
  6. 6 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Clinical Psychology 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 available34.8%not open65.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.3%domestic only89.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Municipality of Anchorage's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher 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 Municipality of Anchorage as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2020.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Municipality of Anchorage0.0000085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Municipality of Anchorage over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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