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Government institution · Kota Kinabalu · Malaysia

Sabah Wildlife Department

wildlife.sabah.gov.myROR OpenAlex
Research works
97
▼ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
3k
31.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
68%
world 40%
International
72%
world 18%
Sabah Wildlife Department

Not ranked overall: Sabah Wildlife Department is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Sabah Wildlife Department work in?

In 2022-now, 40% of research at Sabah Wildlife Department is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (35%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Medicine (12%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 39.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 34.8% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 19.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 6.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 26.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 14.1% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 7.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 10.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 18.4% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 12.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEquine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 15.0% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 8.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 8.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKSabah WildlifeDepartment25fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences27%Physical Sciences40%Health Sciences18%Social Sciences15%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science934.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.6%
    3. Engineering00.6%
    4. Chemistry00.3%
    5. Computer Science00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology414.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences310.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology12.5%
    1. Medicine312.3%
    2. Veterinary14.8%
    3. Health Professions00.6%
    4. Dentistry00.4%
    5. Nursing00.2%
    1. Psychology28.6%
    2. Social Sciences15.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    4. Decision Sciences00.3%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.19× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.64× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.45× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemistry: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.31× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.01× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.64× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 35.24× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.82× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 35.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary35.24×1 works
  2. Environmental Science7.01×9 works
  3. Psychology2.82×2 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.64×4 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology2.45×1 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.31×1 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.19×3 works
  8. Dentistry0.91×0 works
  9. Medicine0.64×3 works
  10. Social Sciences0.45×1 works
  11. Nursing0.39×0 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.28×0 works
  13. Health Professions0.24×0 works
  14. Chemistry0.21×0 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.15×0 works
  16. Engineering0.04×0 works
  17. Computer Science0.03×0 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Sabah Wildlife Department?

Ranked on the quality score, Laurentius Nayan Ambu, Nicola K. Abram and Augustine Tuuga lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sabah Wildlife Department.

  1. 1 Laurentius Nayan Ambu Malaysia · #222,723 worldwide 3.4k citations · 53 works
  2. 2 Nicola K. Abram Malaysia · #324,916 worldwide 2.5k citations · 42 works
  3. 3 Augustine Tuuga Malaysia · #429,044 worldwide 2.3k citations · 57 works
  4. 4 Senthilvel K. S. S. Nathan Malaysia · #854,471 worldwide 1.6k citations · 47 works
  5. 5 Danica J. Stark Malaysia · #996,956 worldwide 968 citations · 34 works
  6. 6 Raymond Alfred Malaysia · #1,521,383 worldwide 2k citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Milena Salgado‐Lynn Malaysia · #1,873,001 worldwide 346 citations · 29 works
  8. 8 Penny C. Gardner Malaysia · #2,717,166 worldwide 369 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Symphorosa Sipangkui Malaysia · #3,202,863 worldwide 202 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Sabah Wildlife Department

What are the most cited papers from Sabah Wildlife Department?

The most cited paper from Sabah Wildlife Department is "The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models" (Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt et al., 2013), with 1,329 citations. Next come "Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Humans Is Widely Distributed and Potentially Life Threatening" (913) and "Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo" (485).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt et al. · Diversity and Distributions Open access 2 Jul 2013 1,329
2 Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in Humans Is Widely Distributed and Potentially Life Threatening Janet Cox‐Singh, Timothy M. E. Davis, K.-S. Lee et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases Open access 4 Dec 2007 913
3 Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo David Gaveau, Sean Sloan, Elis Molidena et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 16 Jul 2014 485
4 The Confounding Effects of Population Structure, Genetic Diversity and the Sampling Scheme on the Detection and Quantification of Population Size Changes Lounès Chikhi, Vítor C. Sousa, Pierre Luisi et al. · Genetics Open access 27 Aug 2010 330
5 Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species Alexander Nater et al. · Current Biology Open access Nov 2017 324
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Sabah Wildlife Department?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Population Dynamics, Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Trophic Cascades, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Evolution 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 2022-now 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 19 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Dynamics5▲ 71×7 topics
  2. Climate Change4▲ 5.5×17 topics
  3. Habitat Selection3▲ 147×2 topics
  4. Trophic Cascades2▲ 110×2 topics
  5. Animal Movement2▲ 178×1 topic
  6. Evolution2▲ 34×5 topics
  7. Occupancy Rates2▲ 178×1 topic
  8. Biodiversity2▲ 11×10 topics
  9. Conservation2▲ 18×7 topics
  10. Social Behavior2▲ 127×2 topics
  11. Intelligence2▲ 171×1 topic
  12. Primates2▲ 367×1 topic
  13. Genetic Structure2▲ 91×3 topics
  14. Genetic Diversity2▲ 14×7 topics
  15. Invasive Species1▲ 13×7 topics
  16. Epidemiology1▲ 1.31×14 topics
  17. Environmental Impact1▲ 2.7×7 topics
  18. Acoustic Communication1▲ 85×2 topics
  19. Conservation Biology1▲ 42×3 topics

Which research topics does Sabah Wildlife Department publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior and Turtle Biology and Conservation.

Wildlife Ecology and Con…2Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 2 fractional worksPrimate Behavior and Eco…2Primate Behavior and Ecology: 2 fractional worksAnimal Vocal Communication and Behavior: 1 fractional worksTurtle Biology and Conservation: 1 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 1 fractional worksHuman-Animal Interaction…1Human-Animal Interaction Studies: 1 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 0 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 0 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 0 fractional works
EcologySocial PsychologyDevelopmental BiologyNature and Landscape Conservation3 others

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

  1. 1 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 2 works
  2. 2 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 2 works
  3. 3 Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior Developmental Biology 1 works
  4. 4 Turtle Biology and Conservation Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  5. 5 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 1 works
  6. 6 Human-Animal Interaction Studies Genetics 1 works
  7. 7 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 0 works
  8. 8 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 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 available67.6%not open32.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors72.2%domestic only27.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sabah Wildlife Department's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% 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 Sabah Wildlife Department as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000081% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Sabah Wildlife Department0.00011% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Sabah Wildlife Department over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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