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National Aquarium

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Research works
107
▼ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
2.8k
25.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
37%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: National Aquarium is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 2.67× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.96× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.80× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.67× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.29× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksMedicineVeterinary: 40.24× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 0.79× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 40.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at National Aquarium?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Conservation, Population Dynamics, Aquaculture, Acoustic Communication, Predator-Prey Interactions, Anthropogenic Noise and Marine Mammals.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 Change27▲ 9.3×21 topics
  2. Conservation21▲ 41×13 topics
  3. Population Dynamics18▲ 55×7 topics
  4. Aquaculture8▲ 30×7 topics
  5. Acoustic Communication8▲ 124×2 topics
  6. Predator-Prey Interactions8▲ 76×2 topics
  7. Anthropogenic Noise7▲ 204×1 topic
  8. Marine Mammals7▲ 204×1 topic
  9. Biodiversity7▲ 8.2×11 topics
  10. Habitat Fragmentation7▲ 22×4 topics
  11. Invasive Species6▲ 9.5×8 topics
  12. Phylogenetic Analysis6▲ 14×7 topics
  13. Genetic Structure6▲ 65×3 topics
  14. Antibiotic Resistance5▲ 12×5 topics
  15. Innate Immunity5▲ 13×2 topics
  16. Gut Microbiota5▲ 14×2 topics
  17. Marine Ecosystems5▲ 80×2 topics
  18. Fish Immunology5▲ 94×1 topic
  19. Probiotics5▲ 17×1 topic
  20. Sea-Level Rise5▲ 41×4 topics
  21. Fisheries4▲ 97×2 topics
  22. Fisheries Sustainability4▲ 33×2 topics
  23. Ecology4▲ 19×4 topics
  24. Phylogeny4▲ 20×3 topics
  25. Bycatch4▲ 310×1 topic
  26. Genetic Diversity4▲ 7.2×5 topics
  27. Marine Turtles4▲ 310×1 topic
  28. Molecular Phylogeny4▲ 16×5 topics
  29. Biogeography4▲ 9.8×3 topics
  30. Conservation Challenges4▲ 47×1 topic
  31. Freshwater Biodiversity4▲ 38×1 topic
  32. Animal Welfare3▲ 29×4 topics
  33. Rays3▲ 137×1 topic
  34. Sharks3▲ 137×1 topic
  35. Conservation Biology3▲ 26×3 topics
  36. Reproductive Strategies3▲ 47×2 topics
  37. Freshwater3▲ 47×2 topics
  38. Biodiversity Loss3▲ 40×3 topics
  39. Morphology3▲ 13×2 topics
  40. Fish3▲ 59×1 topic

Which research topics does National Aquarium publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Marine animal studies overview, Turtle Biology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies.

Marine animal studies ov…1Marine animal studies overview: 1 fractional worksTurtle Biology and Conse…1Turtle Biology and Conservation: 1 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Repr…0Animal Behavior and Reproduction: 0 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 0 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior0Avian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksMarine Sponges and Natural Products: 0 fractional worksHuman-Animal Interaction Studies: 0 fractional worksMarine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology: 0 fractional worksMarine Ecology and Invasive Species: 0 fractional works
EcologyNature and Landscape ConservationEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSmall Animals5 others

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

  1. 1 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 1 works
  2. 2 Turtle Biology and Conservation Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  3. 3 Animal Behavior and Reproduction Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  4. 4 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 0 works
  5. 5 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 0 works
  6. 6 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Marine Sponges and Natural Products Biotechnology 0 works
  8. 8 Human-Animal Interaction Studies Genetics 0 works
  9. 9 Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology Paleontology 0 works
  10. 10 Marine Ecology and Invasive Species Global and Planetary Change 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 available37.3%not open62.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.8%domestic only77.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Aquarium's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% 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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