Question 1

How does Royal Alberta Museum rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Royal Alberta Museum ranks #26,201 of 34,923 institutions worldwide on research quality over all time, and #528 of 718 in Canada.

Question 2

Who are the top researchers at Royal Alberta Museum?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, James A. Burns, Christina Isabelle Barrón-Ortiz and Christopher N. Jass lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Alberta Museum.

Question 3

What are the most cited papers from Royal Alberta Museum?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Royal Alberta Museum is "Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans" (Eline D. Lorenzen et al., 2011), with 702 citations. Next come "Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations" (632) and "Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor" (467).

Question 4

Which research topics does Royal Alberta Museum publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Plant and animal studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Fossil Insects in Amber and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Question 5

Which keywords describe research at Royal Alberta Museum?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Biogeography, Population Dynamics, Molecular Phylogeny, Habitat Fragmentation and Conservation.

Question 6

Which fields of science does Royal Alberta Museum work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 37% of research at Royal Alberta Museum is in Life Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (25%), Environmental Science (19%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Question 7

Is Royal Alberta Museum's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% lower than in 2018-2021.