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Nature Research Centre

In research, Nature Research Centre stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,774 of 6,403 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,385 of 3,157 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#2,019 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Parasitology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology (Parasitology is 77.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,925
of 22,385 · #9,952 all time
Rank in Lithuania
#16
of 36
Research works
1.4k
▲ 35% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
11.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
60%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
Nature Research Centre

What is Nature Research Centre 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 #2,774 of 6,403 13.2%226 #2199
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,385 of 3,157 9.4%134 #1678
Environmental ScienceField #2,019 of 3,334 9.8%115 #2946
EcologySubfield #410 of 600 11.4%65 #920
Physical SciencesDomain #9,926 of 10,670 8.4%170 #12661

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Nature Research Centre 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#2,199 #2,774
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#1,678 #1,385
  3. Environmental Science#2,946 #2,019
  4. Ecology#920 #410
  5. Physical Sciences#12,661 #9,926
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 Nature Research Centre work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research at Nature Research Centre is in Life Sciences, 39% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (30%), Environmental Science (26%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%). It does 3.7× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 254 fractional works · 51.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 151 fractional works · 30.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 62 fractional works · 12.4% of its workPlant Science: 49 fractional works · 9.9% of its workInsect Science: 20 fractional works · 4.1% of its workFood Science: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAquatic Science: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 54 fractional works · 10.8% of its workGenetics: 29 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 16 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCell Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 47 fractional works · 9.4% of its workParasitology: 41 fractional works · 8.2% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVirology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 193 fractional works · 38.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 131 fractional works · 26.2% of its workEcology: 71 fractional works · 14.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 16 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPollution: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 39 fractional works · 7.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOceanography: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPaleontology: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 28 fractional works · 5.5% of its workMedicine: 23 fractional works · 4.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVeterinary: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNature ResearchCentre497fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences51%Physical Sciences39%Health Sciences6%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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15130.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5410.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology479.4%
    4. Neuroscience20.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Environmental Science13126.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences397.8%
    3. Engineering91.8%
    4. Materials Science71.5%
    5. Chemistry30.6%
    6. Energy30.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy20.3%
    8. Computer Science10.2%
    9. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Medicine234.6%
    2. Veterinary30.6%
    3. Health Professions10.3%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Nursing00.0%
    1. Social Sciences122.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities81.6%
    3. Psychology10.3%
    4. Decision Sciences10.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Nature Research Centre specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Parasitology takes 77.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ParasitologySubfield · 40.8 works78×
  2. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 61.6 works26×
  3. EcologySubfield · 71.4 works18×
  4. Insect ScienceSubfield · 20.3 works14×
  5. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 46.9 works9.4×
← 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: 6.39× its world share, 151 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.02× its world share, 54 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 9.36× its world share, 47 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.95× its world share, 39 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.28× its world share, 130 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.42× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 23 worksMedicineNursing: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.32× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.56× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology9.36×47 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.39×151 works
  3. Environmental Science5.28×130 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.95×39 works
  5. Veterinary4.32×3 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.02×54 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.56×8 works
  8. Energy0.55×2 works
  9. Materials Science0.42×7 works
  10. Chemistry0.38×3 works
  11. Medicine0.24×23 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.23×0 works
  13. Neuroscience0.22×2 works
  14. Social Sciences0.19×12 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.14×2 works
  16. Dentistry0.14×0 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.14×1 works
  18. Engineering0.12×9 works
  19. Health Professions0.11×2 works
  20. Psychology0.10×2 works
  21. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.05×0 works
  22. Nursing0.04×0 works
  23. Computer Science0.03×1 works
  24. Mathematics0.01×0 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Nature Research Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Vaidas Palinauskas and Gediminas Valkiūnas lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Nature Research Centre.

  1. 1 Valerijus Rašomavičius Lithuania · #142,840 worldwide 2.7k citations · 69 works
  2. 2 Vaidas Palinauskas Lithuania · #153,722 worldwide 5.2k citations · 137 works
  3. 3 Gediminas Valkiūnas Lithuania · #308,367 worldwide 13k citations · 310 works
  4. 4 Tatjana Aleksandrovna Iezhova Lithuania · #561,228 worldwide 6k citations · 131 works
  5. 5 Nathan Jay Baker Lithuania · #833,965 worldwide 850 citations · 38 works
  6. 6 Mikas Ilgūnas Lithuania · #863,284 worldwide 1.6k citations · 58 works
  7. 7 Rita Žiegytė Lithuania · #919,523 worldwide 859 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Mindaugas Dagys Lithuania · #1,126,390 worldwide 1k citations · 49 works
  9. 9 Miglė Stančikaitė Lithuania · #1,209,623 worldwide 1.8k citations · 91 works
  10. 10 Rasa Bernotienė Lithuania · #1,228,534 worldwide 2.2k citations · 91 works
All ranked researchers at Nature Research Centre

What are the most cited papers from Nature Research Centre?

The most cited paper from Nature Research Centre is "Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes" (Guillaume Chapron et al., 2014), with 1,906 citations. Next come "Biogeographical patterns and determinants of invasion by forest pathogens in Europe" (600) and "European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots" (470).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes Guillaume Chapron et al. · Science Open access 19 Dec 2014 1,906
2 Biogeographical patterns and determinants of invasion by forest pathogens in Europe Alberto Oppermann Santini et al. · New Phytologist Open access 11 Oct 2012 600
3 European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots Milan Chytrý et al. · Applied Vegetation Science Open access 20 Aug 2015 470
4 EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats Milan Chytrý et al. · Applied Vegetation Science Open access 26 Jul 2020 451
5 Diptera vectors of avian Haemosporidian parasites: untangling parasite life cycles and their taxonomy Diego Santiago‐Alarcón, Vaidas Palinauskas, Hinrich Martin Schaefer · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Review 23 May 2012 380
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Nature Research Centre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Phylogeny, Population Dynamics, Biogeography, Habitat Fragmentation and Conservation.

▲ 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 Change92▲ 6.8×53 topics
  2. Invasive Species80▲ 38×19 topics
  3. Biodiversity64▲ 17×26 topics
  4. Epidemiology52▲ 2.6×23 topics
  5. Phylogeny36▲ 43×16 topics
  6. Population Dynamics35▲ 27×10 topics
  7. Biogeography34▲ 25×20 topics
  8. Habitat Fragmentation33▲ 31×5 topics
  9. Conservation32▲ 15×19 topics
  10. Evolution32▲ 24×13 topics
  11. Molecular Phylogeny29▲ 35×11 topics
  12. Taxonomy27▲ 38×12 topics
  13. Global Change27▲ 21×6 topics
  14. Genetic Diversity24▲ 11×14 topics
  15. Host Specificity23▲ 42×5 topics
  16. Host-Pathogen Interactions22▲ 53×4 topics
  17. Public Health21▲ 2.9×11 topics
  18. DNA Barcoding19▲ 22×9 topics
  19. Ecology18▲ 21×9 topics
  20. Virulence Factors18▲ 25×6 topics
  21. Ecosystem Services18▲ 9.2×10 topics
  22. Conservation Biology17▲ 32×4 topics
  23. Climate Change Impacts17▲ 28×4 topics
  24. Pathogenesis17▲ 6.6×8 topics
  25. Habitat Selection16▲ 45×2 topics
  26. Phylogenetic Analysis16▲ 10×15 topics
  27. Immune Response16▲ 5.5×6 topics
  28. Genomics15▲ 10×7 topics
  29. Trophic Cascades14▲ 31×2 topics
  30. Predator-Prey Interactions14▲ 35×2 topics
  31. Ecosystem14▲ 26×4 topics
  32. Island Ecosystems13▲ 83×2 topics
  33. Plant-Animal Interactions13▲ 34×1 topic
  34. Pollinator Decline13▲ 34×1 topic
  35. Biological Control13▲ 17×8 topics
  36. Community Ecology13▲ 31×2 topics
  37. Morphology13▲ 15×5 topics
  38. Zoonotic Transmission13▲ 35×2 topics
  39. Mast Seeding13▲ 130×1 topic
  40. Rodent Eradication13▲ 130×1 topic

Which research topics does Nature Research Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Plant and animal studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Bird parasitology and diseases and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Plant and animal studies13Plant and animal studies: 13 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behav…13Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 13 fractional worksBird parasitology and diseases: 13 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…12Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 12 fractional worksToxoplasma gondii Resear…10Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies: 10 fractional worksBotany and Plant Ecology Studies: 10 fractional worksVector-borne infectious diseases: 10 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and…9Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 9 fractional worksDiptera species taxonomy and behavior: 8 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 7 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcologyParasitologyPlant Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 13 works
  2. 2 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 13 works
  3. 3 Bird parasitology and diseases Parasitology 13 works
  4. 4 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 12 works
  5. 5 Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies Parasitology 10 works
  6. 6 Botany and Plant Ecology Studies Plant Science 10 works
  7. 7 Vector-borne infectious diseases Parasitology 10 works
  8. 8 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 9 works
  9. 9 Diptera species taxonomy and behavior Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 8 works
  10. 10 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 7 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 available59.5%not open40.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.6%domestic only66.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Nature Research Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020052010201520202025
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 Nature Research Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0016% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Nature Research Centre0.0022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nature Research Centre 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%Nature Research Centre10.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.3% in 2024.

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