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Ocean Trust

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Research works
13
▼ 51% vs 2018-21
Citations
314
24.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
62%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Ocean Trust

Not ranked overall: Ocean Trust is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Ocean Trust work in?

In all years, 70% of research at Ocean Trust is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (50%), Social Sciences (18%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 69.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 50.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 20.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 10.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 9.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 15.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 28.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 17.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 8.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workALL ITS WORKOcean Trust13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences70%Social Sciences29%

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 3 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science750.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences215.4%
    3. Computer Science03.8%
    4. Engineering00.2%
    1. Social Sciences217.8%
    2. Decision Sciences17.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.9%
    4. Psychology00.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.3%
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 Ocean Trust?

The most cited paper from Ocean Trust is "Making marine and coastal citizen science matter" (John A. Cigliano, Ryan Meyer, Heidi L. Ballard et al., 2015), with 210 citations. Next come "Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: linking knowledge to action" (207) and "Strategies Employed by Citizen Science Programs to Increase the Credibility of Their Data" (141).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Making marine and coastal citizen science matter John A. Cigliano, Ryan Meyer, Heidi L. Ballard et al. · Ocean & Coastal Management Open access Oct 2015 210
2 Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: linking knowledge to action Helen E. Fox, Michael B. Mascia, Xavier Basurto et al. · Conservation Letters Open access 4 Nov 2011 207
3 Strategies Employed by Citizen Science Programs to Increase the Credibility of Their Data Amy Freitag, Ryan Meyer, Liz Whiteman · Citizen Science Theory and Practice Open access 20 May 2016 141
4 Science in support of ecosystem-based management for the US West Coast and beyond Sarah E. Lester, Karen L. McLeod, Heather M. Tallis et al. · Biological Conservation 26 Jan 2010 135
5 Designing a network of marine protected areas in California: Achievements, costs, lessons learned, and challenges ahead Mary G. Gleason, Evan Fox, Susan Marie Ashcraft et al. · Ocean & Coastal Management 30 Aug 2012 120
All 42 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Ocean Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Environmental Monitoring and Data Management, Coastal and Marine Management and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy.

Methane Hydrates and Rel…0Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Monitoring…0Environmental Monitoring and Data Management: 0 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Management: 0 fractional worksSocial Acceptance of Renewable Energy: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Education and Sustainability: 0 fractional works
Environmental ChemistryGeologyManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawSociology and Political Science

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

  1. 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  2. 2 Environmental Monitoring and Data Management Geology 0 works
  3. 3 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  4. 4 Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Environmental Education and Sustainability Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  6. 6 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  8. 8 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Global and Planetary Change 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 available61.5%not open38.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.4%domestic only80.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ocean Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% lower 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 Ocean Trust as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Ocean Trust over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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