Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Institution · Morristown · United States

North American Butterfly Association

naba.orgROR OpenAlex
Research works
2
▲ 215% vs 2018-21
Citations
117
54.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
45.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
North American Butterfly Association

Not ranked overall: North American Butterfly Association 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 North American Butterfly Association work in?

In all years, 64% of research at North American Butterfly Association is in Life Sciences, 32% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (45%), Environmental Science (32%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 1 fractional works · 63.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 45.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 18.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 31.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 31.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workALL ITS WORKNorth AmericanButterfly…2fractional works, all years
Life Sciences64%Physical Sciences32%Social Sciences5%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 3 domains and 4 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences145.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology018.2%
    1. Environmental Science131.8%
    1. Psychology04.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Who are the top researchers at North American Butterfly Association?

Ranked on the quality score, Jeffrey Glassberg lead among researchers whose main affiliation is North American Butterfly Association.

  1. 1 Jeffrey Glassberg United States · #424,308 worldwide 1.4k citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at North American Butterfly Association

What are the most cited papers from North American Butterfly Association?

The most cited paper from North American Butterfly Association is "Linking the continental migratory cycle of the monarch butterfly to understand its population decline" (Hidetoshi Inamine, Stephen P. Ellner, James P. Springer et al., 2016), with 161 citations. Next come "Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century" (90) and "Recent climate change is creating hotspots of butterfly increase and decline across North America" (77).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Linking the continental migratory cycle of the monarch butterfly to understand its population decline Hidetoshi Inamine, Stephen P. Ellner, James P. Springer et al. · Oikos Open access 10 Apr 2016 161
2 Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century Collin B. Edwards et al. · Science Open access 6 Mar 2025 90
3 Recent climate change is creating hotspots of butterfly increase and decline across North America Michael S. Crossley, Olivia M. Smith, Lauren L. Berry et al. · Global Change Biology 22 Mar 2021 77
4 Opposing global change drivers counterbalance trends in breeding North American monarch butterflies Michael S. Crossley, Timothy D. Meehan, Matthew D. Moran et al. · Global Change Biology Open access 10 Jun 2022 29
5 Butterfly community structure and landscape composition in agricultural landscapes of the central United States Timothy D. Meehan, Jeffrey Glassberg, Claudio Gratton · Journal of Insect Conservation Sep 2012 26
All 11 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does North American Butterfly Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Animal and Plant Science Education.

Species Distribution and…0Species Distribution and Climate Change: 0 fractional worksPlant and animal studies0Plant and animal studies: 0 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 0 fractional worksAnimal and Plant Science Education: 0 fractional works
Ecological ModelingEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsNature and Landscape ConservationSocial Psychology

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

  1. 1 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 0 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  3. 3 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  4. 4 Animal and Plant Science Education Social Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 0 works
  6. 6 Animal Behavior and Reproduction Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 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 available75.1%not open24.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.2%domestic only92.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has North American Butterfly Association's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 215% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting201520202025
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Other research institutions in Morristown

All research institutions in Morristown

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about North American Butterfly Association. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.