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Royal Saskatchewan Museum

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World rank, all time
#28,568
of 34,923
Rank in Canada
#591
of 718
Research works
169
▼ 34% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.8k
10.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
62%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Royal Saskatchewan Museum

Which fields of science does Royal Saskatchewan Museum work in?

In all years, 37% of research at Royal Saskatchewan Museum is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (23%), Environmental Science (22%), Social Sciences (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 63 fractional works · 37.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 36 fractional works · 21.6% of its workEcology: 21 fractional works · 12.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcological Modeling: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 20 fractional works · 11.8% of its workPaleontology: 17 fractional works · 10.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 49 fractional works · 28.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 39 fractional works · 23.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 24 fractional works · 13.9% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInsect Science: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 4.9% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 48 fractional works · 28.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 13.6% of its workAnthropology: 9 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 19 fractional works · 11.0% of its workArcheology: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workConservation: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMuseology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 5.4% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRoyalSaskatchewan…169fractional works, all years
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences37%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences28%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science3621.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2011.8%
    3. Computer Science31.8%
    4. Engineering21.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    6. Chemistry00.3%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3923.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology84.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    4. Neuroscience00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences2313.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities1911.0%
    3. Psychology31.7%
    4. Decision Sciences21.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.6%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.6%
    1. Health Professions63.8%
    2. Medicine21.5%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
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: 8.32× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.25× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8.77× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 3.77× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 3.32× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 8.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences8.77×2 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8.32×7 works
  3. Environmental Science3.77×3 works
  4. Arts and Humanities3.32×2 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.25×1 works
  6. Social Sciences0.65×1 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.43×0 works
  8. Health Professions0.36×0 works
  9. Psychology0.21×0 works
  10. Computer Science0.08×0 works
  11. Medicine0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Royal Saskatchewan Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Cory Silas Sheffield, Ryan C. McKellar and Jennifer Heron lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Saskatchewan Museum.

  1. 1 Cory Silas Sheffield Canada · #1,170,714 worldwide 3.4k citations · 109 works
  2. 2 Ryan C. McKellar Canada · #1,487,011 worldwide 2.5k citations · 132 works
  3. 3 Jennifer Heron Canada · #3,100,346 worldwide 280 citations · 32 works
  4. 4 Pierre F.D. Cockx Canada · #3,698,529 worldwide 158 citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Glenn C. Sutter Canada · #3,827,278 worldwide 562 citations · 39 works
  6. 6 Tim T. Tokaryk Canada · #4,807,821 worldwide 637 citations · 69 works
  7. 7 Fred W. Lahrman Canada · #5,465,273 worldwide 53 citations · 36 works
  8. 8 Ronald R. Hooper Canada · #6,094,291 worldwide 66 citations · 55 works
  9. 9 Paul C. James Canada · #6,686,478 worldwide 1.1k citations · 86 works
  10. 10 Saskatchewan Natural History Society Canada · #7,706,629 worldwide 76 citations · 1,370 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Saskatchewan Museum

What are the most cited papers from Royal Saskatchewan Museum?

The most cited paper from Royal Saskatchewan Museum is "Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination" (Romina Rader et al., 2015), with 1,004 citations. Next come "The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches" (407) and "Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary" (240).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination Romina Rader et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 Nov 2015 1,004
2 The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches Michael S. Engel et al. · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society Open access 28 Jul 2021 407
3 Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary Nicholas R. Longrich, Tim T. Tokaryk, Daniel J. Field · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 Aug 2011 240
4 A king-sized theropod coprolite Karen Chin, Timothy T. Tokaryk, Gregory M. Erickson et al. · Nature Open access Jun 1998 207
5 The potential of cleptoparasitic bees as indicator taxa for assessing bee communities Cory Silas Sheffield, Alana Pindar, Laurence Packer et al. · Apidologie Open access 20 Feb 2013 180
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Royal Saskatchewan Museum?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Population Dynamics, Ecosystem Services, Habitat Fragmentation, Global Change and Conservation.

▲ 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 Change38▲ 8.4×28 topics
  2. Invasive Species26▲ 26×14 topics
  3. Biodiversity25▲ 19×13 topics
  4. Population Dynamics16▲ 31×8 topics
  5. Ecosystem Services15▲ 26×4 topics
  6. Habitat Fragmentation15▲ 30×4 topics
  7. Global Change13▲ 26×3 topics
  8. Conservation13▲ 16×12 topics
  9. Biogeography12▲ 21×11 topics
  10. Molecular Phylogeny12▲ 34×7 topics
  11. Habitat Selection12▲ 74×2 topics
  12. Plant-Animal Interactions11▲ 57×1 topic
  13. Pollinator Decline11▲ 57×1 topic
  14. Phylogeny10▲ 32×9 topics
  15. Cultural Identity9▲ 12×4 topics
  16. Cretaceous9▲ 220×2 topics
  17. Evolution8▲ 17×7 topics
  18. Morphology8▲ 24×4 topics
  19. Trophic Cascades7▲ 38×2 topics
  20. Cultural Heritage7▲ 9.5×5 topics
  21. Animal Movement7▲ 70×1 topic
  22. Conservation Biology7▲ 37×4 topics
  23. Occupancy Rates7▲ 70×1 topic
  24. History7▲ 5.2×6 topics
  25. Adaptive Radiation7▲ 98×2 topics
  26. Phylogenetic Analysis6▲ 9.7×6 topics
  27. Identity6▲ 4.6×4 topics
  28. DNA Barcoding6▲ 21×7 topics
  29. Mammal Evolution6▲ 113×1 topic
  30. Nationalism6▲ 5.7×2 topics
  31. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis6▲ 113×1 topic
  32. Language6▲ 14×2 topics
  33. Canada5▲ 117×1 topic
  34. Social Policy5▲ 24×1 topic
  35. Phylogenetics5▲ 57×2 topics
  36. Cultural Sustainability5▲ 65×2 topics
  37. Agricultural Origins5▲ 80×1 topic
  38. Radiocarbon Dating5▲ 80×1 topic
  39. Amber Fossils5▲ 309×1 topic
  40. Insect Evolution5▲ 309×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal Saskatchewan Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Plant and animal studies, Fossil Insects in Amber, Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Plant and animal studies2Plant and animal studies: 2 fractional worksFossil Insects in Amber: 2 fractional worksHymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny: 1 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 1 fractional worksInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior: 1 fractional worksPlant Parasitism and Res…1Plant Parasitism and Resistance: 1 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient environmental studies: 1 fractional worksPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 1 fractional worksEvolution and Paleontology Studies: 0 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 0 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcologyGeneticsPlant Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2 works
  2. 2 Fossil Insects in Amber Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2 works
  3. 3 Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  4. 4 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 1 works
  5. 5 Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior Genetics 1 works
  6. 6 Plant Parasitism and Resistance Plant Science 1 works
  7. 7 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 1 works
  8. 8 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 1 works
  9. 9 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 0 works
  10. 10 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available61.9%not open38.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.4%domestic only85.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Royal Saskatchewan Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% 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 Royal Saskatchewan Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000092% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Royal Saskatchewan Museum0.000057% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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