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Naturalis Biodiversity Center

In research, Naturalis Biodiversity Center stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,187 of 6,403 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#883 of 3,157 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,235 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology and Ecological Modeling (Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 59.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,753
of 22,385 · #4,595 all time
Rank in Netherlands
#48
of 197
Research works
2.7k
▲ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
39k
14.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
73%
world 40%
International
59%
world 18%
Naturalis Biodiversity Center

What is Naturalis Biodiversity Center 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
Life SciencesDomain #1,187 of 6,403 7.0%310 #1364
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #883 of 3,157 6.9%229 #963
Environmental ScienceField #1,235 of 3,334 8.8%140 #1312
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield #101 of 269 7.9%151 #244
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,444 of 2,964 7.0%76 #1738
Physical SciencesDomain #5,421 of 10,670 7.7%243 #5824
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #641 of 1,088 6.1%71 #994
EcologySubfield #366 of 600 8.5%66 #580

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Naturalis Biodiversity Center 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Life Sciences#1,364 #1,187
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#963 #883
  3. Environmental Science#1,312 #1,235
  4. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics#244 #101
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,738 #1,444
  6. Physical Sciences#5,824 #5,421
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences#994 #641
  8. Ecology#580 #366
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Naturalis Biodiversity Center work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Naturalis Biodiversity Center is in Life Sciences, 41% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (39%), Environmental Science (22%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (13%). It does 3.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 473 fractional works · 51.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 359 fractional works · 39.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 256 fractional works · 28.1% of its workInsect Science: 43 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPlant Science: 38 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAquatic Science: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 108 fractional works · 11.9% of its workGenetics: 43 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 38 fractional works · 4.2% of its workBiotechnology: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCell Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 372 fractional works · 40.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 205 fractional works · 22.4% of its workEcology: 94 fractional works · 10.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 40 fractional works · 4.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 24 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEcological Modeling: 22 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 120 fractional works · 13.1% of its workPaleontology: 59 fractional works · 6.5% of its workOceanography: 47 fractional works · 5.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomaterials: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 46 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAnthropology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 21 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPharmacology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNaturalisBiodiversity…912fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences52%Physical Sciences41%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences5%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences35939.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10811.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology40.5%
    4. Neuroscience10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Environmental Science20522.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences12013.1%
    3. Materials Science171.9%
    4. Computer Science131.4%
    5. Engineering91.0%
    6. Chemistry40.4%
    7. Mathematics20.3%
    8. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    9. Energy00.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences192.0%
    2. Decision Sciences80.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities80.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting50.5%
    5. Psychology40.5%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.2%
    1. Medicine182.0%
    2. Health Professions20.2%
    3. Veterinary10.1%
    4. Nursing10.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Naturalis Biodiversity Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 59.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 256.2 works60×
  2. PaleontologySubfield · 59.1 works54×
  3. Ecological ModelingSubfield · 21.6 works31×
  4. OceanographySubfield · 47.0 works18×
  5. Insect ScienceSubfield · 43.3 works17×
  6. EcologySubfield · 93.8 works13×
  7. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 24.3 works11×
← 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: 8.28× its world share, 359 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.22× its world share, 108 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 13 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8.36× its world share, 120 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.52× its world share, 205 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.54× its world share, 17 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.84× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.30× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.92× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 8.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences8.36×120 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8.28×359 works
  3. Environmental Science4.52×205 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.22×108 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.92×8 works
  6. Veterinary0.84×1 works
  7. Materials Science0.54×17 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.45×4 works
  9. Arts and Humanities0.30×8 works
  10. Chemistry0.28×4 works
  11. Mathematics0.23×2 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.18×1 works
  13. Computer Science0.18×13 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.16×5 works
  15. Psychology0.16×4 works
  16. Social Sciences0.16×19 works
  17. Nursing0.13×1 works
  18. Medicine0.10×18 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×2 works
  20. Neuroscience0.08×1 works
  21. Health Professions0.08×2 works
  22. Engineering0.07×10 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.05×1 works
  24. Energy0.04×0 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.02×0 works
  26. Dentistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Naturalis Biodiversity Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Hans ter Steege, Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer and Olaf Bánki lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

  1. 1 Hans ter Steege Netherlands · #8,330 worldwide 35k citations · 300 works
  2. 2 Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer Netherlands · #38,242 worldwide 24k citations · 160 works
  3. 3 Olaf Bánki Netherlands · #39,127 worldwide 8.1k citations · 121 works
  4. 4 Tinde R van Andel Netherlands · #123,218 worldwide 8.9k citations · 263 works
  5. 5 Jan J. Wieringa Netherlands · #148,825 worldwide 9.8k citations · 171 works
  6. 6 Niels Raes Netherlands · #206,338 worldwide 5.1k citations · 106 works
  7. 7 Freek J. Vonk Netherlands · #239,444 worldwide 5.2k citations · 90 works
  8. 8 Vincent S. F. T. Merckx Netherlands · #275,579 worldwide 5.5k citations · 110 works
  9. 9 Luís Neves Morgado Netherlands · #306,837 worldwide 5.4k citations · 43 works
  10. 10 József Geml Netherlands · #318,959 worldwide 11k citations · 146 works
All ranked researchers at Naturalis Biodiversity Center

What are the most cited papers from Naturalis Biodiversity Center?

The most cited paper from Naturalis Biodiversity Center is "New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide" (Natalia Pérez Harguindeguy et al., 2013), with 4,312 citations. Next come "Global diversity and geography of soil fungi" (3,776) and "Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species" (3,311).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide Natalia Pérez Harguindeguy et al. · Australian Journal of Botany Open access 25 Apr 2013 4,312
2 Global diversity and geography of soil fungi Leho Tedersoo et al. · Science Open access 28 Nov 2014 3,776
3 Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species Arang Rhie et al. · Nature Open access129 authors 28 Apr 2021 3,311
4 Parallel Declines in Pollinators and Insect-Pollinated Plants in Britain and the Netherlands Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer, Stuart P. M. Roberts, Menno Reemer et al. · Science Open access 20 Jul 2006 3,206
5 Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought Brendan Choat et al. · Nature Open access Nov 2012 2,840
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Naturalis Biodiversity Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Biogeography, Invasive Species, Climate Change, Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Molecular Phylogeny 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-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. Biodiversity213▲ 31×30 topics
  2. Biogeography189▲ 74×20 topics
  3. Invasive Species184▲ 48×20 topics
  4. Climate Change180▲ 7.2×59 topics
  5. Phylogeny146▲ 96×17 topics
  6. Taxonomy118▲ 89×14 topics
  7. Molecular Phylogeny100▲ 67×11 topics
  8. Habitat Fragmentation90▲ 46×5 topics
  9. Evolution89▲ 36×14 topics
  10. Global Change84▲ 35×6 topics
  11. DNA Barcoding78▲ 50×9 topics
  12. Ecosystem Functioning74▲ 40×7 topics
  13. Ecosystem Services73▲ 21×9 topics
  14. Ecology64▲ 41×8 topics
  15. Conservation64▲ 16×19 topics
  16. Plant-Animal Interactions64▲ 89×1 topic
  17. Pollinator Decline64▲ 89×1 topic
  18. Phylogenetics55▲ 120×2 topics
  19. Morphology49▲ 30×7 topics
  20. Phylogenetic Analysis48▲ 17×15 topics
  21. Population Dynamics48▲ 20×12 topics
  22. Benthic Communities42▲ 74×2 topics
  23. Marine Biodiversity42▲ 74×2 topics
  24. Cretaceous38▲ 168×2 topics
  25. Adaptive Radiation36▲ 122×2 topics
  26. Phylogenetic Relationships35▲ 55×4 topics
  27. Diversification35▲ 85×2 topics
  28. Conservation Biology34▲ 35×4 topics
  29. Biological Control34▲ 24×9 topics
  30. Amber Fossils33▲ 348×1 topic
  31. Insect Evolution33▲ 348×1 topic
  32. Hydrothermal Vents31▲ 84×2 topics
  33. Deep-Sea Ecology31▲ 111×1 topic
  34. Estuarine Quality31▲ 111×1 topic
  35. Cryptic Species31▲ 131×2 topics
  36. Biological Invasions30▲ 37×3 topics
  37. Systematics30▲ 165×3 topics
  38. Polyploidy29▲ 63×3 topics
  39. Toxins28▲ 30×4 topics
  40. Epiphytes26▲ 255×1 topic

Which research topics does Naturalis Biodiversity Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Plant and animal studies, Fossil Insects in Amber, Marine Biology and Ecology Research and Fern and Epiphyte Biology.

Plant and animal studies64Plant and animal studies: 64 fractional worksFossil Insects in Amber: 33 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecolo…31Marine Biology and Ecology Research: 31 fractional worksFern and Epiphyte Biology26Fern and Epiphyte Biology: 26 fractional worksPlant Diversity and Evolution: 22 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 22 fractional worksSubterranean biodiversit…20Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy: 20 fractional worksMarine Ecology and Invasive Species: 20 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 18 fractional worksMarine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology: 17 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsOceanographyEcological ModelingPaleontology2 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 64 works
  2. 2 Fossil Insects in Amber Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 33 works
  3. 3 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 31 works
  4. 4 Fern and Epiphyte Biology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 26 works
  5. 5 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 22 works
  6. 6 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 22 works
  7. 7 Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy Paleontology 20 works
  8. 8 Marine Ecology and Invasive Species Global and Planetary Change 20 works
  9. 9 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 18 works
  10. 10 Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology Paleontology 17 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 available73.3%not open26.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors59.4%domestic only40.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Naturalis Biodiversity Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Naturalis Biodiversity Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0021% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Naturalis Biodiversity Center0.0047% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Naturalis Biodiversity Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Naturalis Biodiversity Center6.2% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.8% in 2021.

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