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North Pacific Research Board

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Research works
10
▲ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
239
23.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
North Pacific Research Board

Not ranked overall: North Pacific Research Board 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 Pacific Research Board work in?

In all years, 78% of research at North Pacific Research Board is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (47%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (31%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 78.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 47.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 22.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 10.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 9.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 30.7% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 18.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 9.6% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workALL ITS WORKNorth PacificResearch Board10fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences78%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences4%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science547.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences330.7%
    3. Engineering00.6%
    1. Medicine19.9%
    2. Health Professions00.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences04.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.1%
    1. Social Sciences03.6%
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.

What are the most cited papers from North Pacific Research Board?

The most cited paper from North Pacific Research Board is "Evidence suggests potential transformation of the Pacific Arctic ecosystem is underway" (Henry P. Huntington, Seth L. Danielson, Francis K. Wiese et al., 2020), with 332 citations. Next come "An Overview of Marine Biodiversity in United States Waters" (136) and "Shifts in the physical environment in the Pacific Arctic and implications for ecological timing and conditions" (68).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Evidence suggests potential transformation of the Pacific Arctic ecosystem is underway Henry P. Huntington, Seth L. Danielson, Francis K. Wiese et al. · Nature Climate Change 24 Feb 2020 332
2 An Overview of Marine Biodiversity in United States Waters Daphne Gail Fautin, Penelope D. Dalton, Lewis S. Incze et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 2 Aug 2010 136
3 Shifts in the physical environment in the Pacific Arctic and implications for ecological timing and conditions M. R. Baker, Kirill K. Kivva, Maria N. Pisareva et al. · Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography Open access 27 May 2020 68
4 Contrast of warm and cold phases in the Bering Sea to understand spatial distributions of Arctic and sub-Arctic gadids M. R. Baker · Polar Biology 22 Apr 2021 62
5 Bering Sea linkages Francis K. Wiese, William J. Wiseman, Thomas I. Van Pelt · Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography 6 Mar 2012 54
All 40 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does North Pacific Research Board publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Thermoregulation and physiological responses, Marine and fisheries research, Food Industry and Aquatic Biology and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Thermoregulation and phy…1Thermoregulation and physiological responses: 1 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…1Marine and fisheries research: 1 fractional worksFood Industry and Aquatic Biology: 0 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…0Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksPolar Research and Ecology: 0 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 0 fractional worksMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 0 fractional worksIsotope Analysis in Ecology: 0 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 0 fractional works
PhysiologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeFood ScienceAtmospheric Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Thermoregulation and physiological responses Physiology 1 works
  2. 2 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  3. 3 Food Industry and Aquatic Biology Food Science 0 works
  4. 4 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 0 works
  5. 5 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  6. 6 Polar Research and Ecology Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 0 works
  8. 8 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 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 available34.8%not open65.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.5%domestic only75.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has North Pacific Research Board's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher 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 North Pacific Research Board as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00000072% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%North Pacific Research Board0.0000049% in 202520102020

Fractional works of North Pacific Research Board over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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