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National Council for Protected Areas

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Research works
9
▼ 42% vs 2018-21
Citations
196
21.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
72%
world 40%
International
64%
world 18%
National Council for Protected Areas

Not ranked overall: National Council for Protected Areas 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 National Council for Protected Areas work in?

In all years, 58% of research at National Council for Protected Areas is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (50%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (25%), Medicine (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 57.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 50.4% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 32.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 11.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 29.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 25.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 10.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 10.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKNational Councilfor Protected…9fractional works, all years
Life Sciences30%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences2%

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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science550.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences03.4%
    3. Chemistry02.0%
    4. Engineering01.2%
    5. Computer Science00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences225.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology04.4%
    1. Medicine110.8%
    1. Social Sciences01.5%
    2. Decision Sciences00.5%
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: 6.70× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.09× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemistry: 2.28× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 9.00× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceDecision Sciences: 2.11× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.00×1 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.70×1 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.10×0 works
  4. Chemistry2.28×0 works
  5. Decision Sciences2.11×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.09×0 works
  7. Social Sciences0.28×0 works
  8. Computer Science0.26×0 works

What are the most cited papers from National Council for Protected Areas?

The most cited paper from National Council for Protected Areas is "Forest concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: A decade later" (Jeremy Radachowsky, V. H. Vargas Ramos, Roan Balas McNab et al., 2011), with 152 citations. Next come "Extinction risk of Mesoamerican crop wild relatives" (85) and "Incorporating evolutionary and threat processes into crop wild relatives conservation" (36).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Forest concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: A decade later Jeremy Radachowsky, V. H. Vargas Ramos, Roan Balas McNab et al. · Forest Ecology and Management 30 Sep 2011 152
2 Extinction risk of Mesoamerican crop wild relatives Bárbara Goettsch et al. · Plants People Planet Open access 6 Sep 2021 85
3 Incorporating evolutionary and threat processes into crop wild relatives conservation Wolke Tobón-Niedfeldt et al. · Nature Communications Open access 21 Oct 2022 36
4 Determination of the country of origin of true mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) wood in five Latin American countries using handheld NIR devices and multivariate data analysis Diego C. Silva, Tereza Cristina Monteiro Pastore, Liz F. Soares et al. · Holzforschung 28 Feb 2018 35
5 Multiple forest use through commercial sport hunting: Lessons from a community-based model from the Petén, Guatemala Erick H. Baur, Roan Balas McNab, Lovett E. Williams et al. · Forest Ecology and Management 9 Jul 2011 19
All 23 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does National Council for Protected Areas publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Agricultural and Food Production Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fire effects on ecosystems and Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics.

Agricultural and Food Pr…0Agricultural and Food Production Studies: 0 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…0Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 0 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems0Fire effects on ecosystems: 0 fractional worksPlant Taxonomy and Phylo…0Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics: 0 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences0Plant and soil sciences: 0 fractional worksRemote Sensing in Agriculture: 0 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 0 fractional worksPacific and Southeast Asian Studies: 0 fractional worksWood and Agarwood Research: 0 fractional worksBiological Control of Invasive Species: 0 fractional works
Food ScienceEcologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5 others

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

  1. 1 Agricultural and Food Production Studies Food Science 0 works
  2. 2 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  3. 3 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  4. 4 Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  5. 5 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  6. 6 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Geography, Planning and Development 0 works
  9. 9 Wood and Agarwood Research Organic Chemistry 0 works
  10. 10 Biological Control of Invasive Species Insect Science 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 available72.3%not open27.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors64.1%domestic only35.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has National Council for Protected Areas's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% 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 National Council for Protected Areas as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000013% in 2023.

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Fractional works of National Council for Protected Areas over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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