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Overseas Museum

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Research works
40
▲ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
333
8.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
Overseas Museum

Not ranked overall: Overseas Museum 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 Overseas Museum work in?

In all years, 38% of research at Overseas Museum is in Life Sciences, 33% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (26%), Environmental Science (21%), Social Sciences (16%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 15 fractional works · 37.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 26.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 fractional works · 19.8% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workParasitology: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 32.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 16.4% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 14.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 26.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 21.3% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 17.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKOverseas Museum39fractional works, all years
Life Sciences38%Physical Sciences26%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences33%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1026.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology37.2%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.2%
    1. Social Sciences616.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities614.1%
    3. Psychology11.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.4%
    1. Environmental Science821.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.1%
    3. Computer Science01.1%
    4. Chemistry00.8%
    5. Engineering00.8%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.8%
    1. Medicine13.4%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 1.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEnvironmental Science: 1.28× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceArts and Humanities: 4.76× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Social Sciences: 5.00× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences5.00×4 works
  2. Arts and Humanities4.76×1 works
  3. Environmental Science1.28×0 works
  4. Computer Science1.01×0 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting0.91×0 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.81×0 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.36×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Overseas Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Viola König and Helmuth O. Wagner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Overseas Museum.

  1. 1 Viola König Germany · #2,970,992 worldwide 36 citations · 32 works
  2. 2 Helmuth O. Wagner Germany · #3,428,981 worldwide 427 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Overseas Museum

What are the most cited papers from Overseas Museum?

The most cited paper from Overseas Museum is "Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)" (Alexandre Pires Aguiar, ANDREW ROBERT DEANS, Michael S. Engel et al., 2013), with 243 citations. Next come "Nemertinen aus Chile report no. 47 of the Lund University Chile expedition 1948–1949" (51) and "Stomatal density and index data of Platanus neptuni leaf fossils and their evaluation as a CO2 proxy for the Oligocene" (45).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013) Alexandre Pires Aguiar, ANDREW ROBERT DEANS, Michael S. Engel et al. · Zootaxa Open access 30 Aug 2013 243
2 Nemertinen aus Chile report no. 47 of the Lund University Chile expedition 1948–1949 Hermann Friedrich · Sarsia 15 May 1970 51
3 Stomatal density and index data of Platanus neptuni leaf fossils and their evaluation as a CO2 proxy for the Oligocene Anita Roth‐Nebelsick, Christoph Oehm, Michaela Grein et al. · Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 22 Mar 2014 45
4 The Molt of Hummingbirds Helmuth O. Wagner · The Auk Open access Jul 1955 43
5 A complete digitization of German herbaria is possible, sensible and should be started now Thomas Borsch et al. · Research Ideas and Outcomes Open access 3 Feb 2020 37
All 56 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Overseas Museum?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Avian Ecology, Migration Patterns, Phylogeny and Molecular Phylogeny.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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 Change10▲ 9.1×14 topics
  2. Habitat Selection6▲ 164×2 topics
  3. Invasive Species5▲ 21×9 topics
  4. Biodiversity5▲ 15×9 topics
  5. Avian Ecology4▲ 322×1 topic
  6. Migration Patterns4▲ 282×1 topic
  7. Phylogeny4▲ 49×8 topics
  8. Molecular Phylogeny3▲ 41×5 topics
  9. Habitat Fragmentation3▲ 27×3 topics
  10. Identity3▲ 9.9×6 topics
  11. Global Change3▲ 24×3 topics
  12. Colonialism3▲ 14×7 topics
  13. Gender3▲ 12×5 topics
  14. Ecosystem Services2▲ 19×2 topics
  15. Plant-Animal Interactions2▲ 56×1 topic
  16. Pollinator Decline2▲ 56×1 topic
  17. Population Dynamics2▲ 20×3 topics
  18. Cultural Exchange2▲ 39×2 topics
  19. Culture2▲ 11×4 topics
  20. History2▲ 6.8×5 topics
  21. Host Specificity2▲ 41×3 topics
  22. Literature2▲ 11×5 topics
  23. Biogeography2▲ 15×7 topics
  24. Colonial Spanish America2▲ 293×1 topic
  25. Visual Culture2▲ 88×1 topic
  26. Conservation2▲ 10×8 topics
  27. Evolution2▲ 17×3 topics
  28. Animal Movement2▲ 78×1 topic
  29. Avian Malaria2▲ 353×1 topic
  30. Haemosporidian Parasites2▲ 353×1 topic
  31. Occupancy Rates2▲ 78×1 topic
  32. Genetic Diversity2▲ 8.2×3 topics
  33. Taxonomy1▲ 24×5 topics
  34. Apomixis1▲ 241×1 topic
  35. Grasses1▲ 241×1 topic
  36. Japan1▲ 124×1 topic
  37. Mediterranean1▲ 32×4 topics
  38. Society1▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Symbiosis1▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Ecological Interactions1▲ 41×2 topics

Which research topics does Overseas Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Japanese History and Culture, Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis, German History and Society and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies.

Japanese History and Cul…1Japanese History and Culture: 1 fractional worksOral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis: 0 fractional worksGerman History and Society: 0 fractional worksPacific and Southeast As…0Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies: 0 fractional worksIsland Studies and Pacific Affairs: 0 fractional worksInterdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies: 0 fractional worksEuropean history and pol…0European history and politics: 0 fractional worksClimate Change, Adaptation, Migration: 0 fractional worksAustralian History and Society: 0 fractional worksCommonwealth, Australian…0Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism: 0 fractional works
Cultural StudiesHistoryGeography, Planning and DevelopmentDemography2 others

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

  1. 1 Japanese History and Culture Cultural Studies 1 works
  2. 2 Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis History 0 works
  3. 3 German History and Society History 0 works
  4. 4 Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Geography, Planning and Development 0 works
  5. 5 Island Studies and Pacific Affairs Demography 0 works
  6. 6 Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 European history and politics Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  8. 8 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Australian History and Society Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism Political Science and International Relations 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 available26.1%not open73.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.1%domestic only88.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Overseas Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% 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 Overseas Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Overseas Museum0.000023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Overseas Museum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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