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Royal Society of South Africa

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Research works
27
▼ 41% vs 2013–17
Citations
10
0.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
60.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
5%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Royal Society of South Africa is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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.

Which keywords describe research at Royal Society of South Africa?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Legal Education, Human Rights, Health Impacts, Welfare Rights Advice, Constitutionalism, Developmental Local Government, Invasive Species and Biodiversity.

▲ 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 33 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 33 words, with their numbers
  1. Legal Education6▲ 352×2 topics
  2. Human Rights6▲ 25×2 topics
  3. Health Impacts4▲ 241×1 topic
  4. Welfare Rights Advice4▲ 607×1 topic
  5. Constitutionalism4▲ 132×1 topic
  6. Developmental Local Government4▲ 1049×1 topic
  7. Invasive Species4▲ 22×7 topics
  8. Biodiversity3▲ 14×6 topics
  9. Globalization2▲ 5.0×3 topics
  10. Taxonomy2▲ 48×4 topics
  11. Climate Change2▲ 2.6×5 topics
  12. Comparative Law2▲ 427×1 topic
  13. Conservation2▲ 14×4 topics
  14. Legal Methodology2▲ 234×1 topic
  15. DNA Barcoding2▲ 39×3 topics
  16. Education2▲ 4.9×5 topics
  17. Big Data1▲ 9.5×2 topics
  18. Cultural Diversity1▲ 26×2 topics
  19. Evolution1▲ 17×3 topics
  20. Phylogeny1▲ 27×3 topics
  21. Sustainability1▲ 2.7×2 topics
  22. Legal Technology1▲ 537×1 topic
  23. Pest Management1▲ 47×2 topics
  24. Predictive1▲ 537×1 topic
  25. Biological Invasions1▲ 35×2 topics
  26. Edible Insects1▲ 160×1 topic
  27. Ethnic Minority Business1▲ 122×1 topic
  28. Food Security1▲ 9.0×1 topic
  29. Immigrant1▲ 72×1 topic
  30. Immigrant Entrepreneurship1▲ 122×1 topic
  31. Refugee1▲ 93×1 topic
  32. neurological history1▲ 223×1 topic
  33. neuroscience pioneers1▲ 223×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal Society of South Africa publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Legal Issues in South Africa, South African History and Culture, Local Economic Development and Planning and Biomarkers in Disease Mechanisms.

Legal Issues in South Af…0Legal Issues in South Africa: 0 fractional worksSouth African History an…0South African History and Culture: 0 fractional worksLocal Economic Developme…0Local Economic Development and Planning: 0 fractional worksBiomarkers in Disease Me…0Biomarkers in Disease Mechanisms: 0 fractional worksS100 Proteins and Annexins0S100 Proteins and Annexins: 0 fractional worksGDF15 and Related Biomarkers: 0 fractional works
LawSociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International RelationsImmunology2 others

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

  1. 1 Legal Issues in South Africa Law 0 works
  2. 2 South African History and Culture Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Local Economic Development and Planning Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  4. 4 Biomarkers in Disease Mechanisms Immunology 0 works
  5. 5 S100 Proteins and Annexins Molecular Biology 0 works
  6. 6 GDF15 and Related Biomarkers Rheumatology 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 available5.3%not open94.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors0.5%domestic only99.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Society of South Africa's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 41% lower than in 2013–2017.

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