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Northwest Straits Foundation

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Research works
6
▲ 315% vs 2018-21
Citations
20
3.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Northwest Straits Foundation

Not ranked overall: Northwest Straits Foundation 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 Northwest Straits Foundation work in?

In all years, 45% of research at Northwest Straits Foundation is in Life Sciences, 37% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (27%), Business, Management and Accounting (19%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 2 fractional works · 45.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 27.0% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 18.0% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 18.0% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 37.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 18.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 18.0% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 11.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 15.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 15.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workALL ITS WORKNorthwest StraitsFoundation6fractional works, all years
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences37%

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. Agricultural and Biological Sciences227.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology118.0%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting118.9%
    2. Social Sciences111.9%
    3. Psychology03.6%
    4. Arts and Humanities03.1%
    1. Environmental Science115.0%
    1. Health Professions01.3%
    2. Medicine01.3%
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 Northwest Straits Foundation?

The most cited paper from Northwest Straits Foundation is "Building evidence around ghost gear: Global trends and analysis for sustainable solutions at scale" (Kelsey Richardson et al., 2018), with 96 citations. Next come "Age and growth of three coastal-pelagic tunas (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Scombridae) in the Florida Straits, USA: blackfin tuna, Thunnus atlanticus, little tunny, Euthynnus alletteratus, and skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis" (14) and "Impacts of lost fishing nets in the U.S. portion of the Salish Sea" (4).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Building evidence around ghost gear: Global trends and analysis for sustainable solutions at scale Kelsey Richardson et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin Open access 24 Nov 2018 96
2 Age and growth of three coastal-pelagic tunas (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Scombridae) in the Florida Straits, USA: blackfin tuna, Thunnus atlanticus, little tunny, Euthynnus alletteratus, and skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis Jessica Adams, David W. Kerstetter · Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria Open access 15 Oct 2014 14
3 Impacts of lost fishing nets in the U.S. portion of the Salish Sea Joan Drinkwin, Kyle Antonelis, Madison Heller-Shipley et al. · Marine Policy Open access 14 Dec 2022 4
4 Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Professionals in Southeast Asia Clark B. Lombardi, Mark Cammack, R. Michael Feener et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2016 2
5 Paternity identification of red panda using microsatellite genotyping Xiu Yun-fan · Acta Theriologica Sinica 2015 1
All 6 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Northwest Straits Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant Virus Research Studies and Family Dynamics and Relationships.

Insect-Plant Interactions and Control: 0 fractional worksPlant Parasitism and Resistance: 0 fractional worksPlant Virus Research Studies: 0 fractional worksFamily Dynamics and Relationships: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies: 0 fractional worksCognitive Abilities and …0Cognitive Abilities and Testing: 0 fractional worksIdentity, Memory, and Therapy: 0 fractional worksMarine Ecology and Invasive Species: 0 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plasti…0Microplastics and Plastic Pollution: 0 fractional works
Insect SciencePlant ScienceDemographyEcology4 others

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

  1. 1 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control Insect Science 0 works
  2. 2 Plant Parasitism and Resistance Plant Science 0 works
  3. 3 Plant Virus Research Studies Plant Science 0 works
  4. 4 Family Dynamics and Relationships Demography 0 works
  5. 5 Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies Ecology 0 works
  6. 6 Cognitive Abilities and Testing Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Identity, Memory, and Therapy Developmental and Educational Psychology 0 works
  8. 8 Marine Ecology and Invasive Species Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 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 available57.6%not open42.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.7%domestic only77.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Northwest Straits Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 315% higher than in 2018-2021.

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