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San Francisco Zoo

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Research works
60
◆ 0% vs 2013–17
Citations
1k
17.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
45.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
26%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: San Francisco Zoo 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.77× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.92× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.69× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.56× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.00× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksMedicineVeterinary: 139.81× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryPsychology: 3.39× its world share, 1 worksPsychology1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 139.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at San Francisco Zoo?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Population Dynamics, Climate Change, Genetic Structure, Habitat Fragmentation, Genomic Analysis, Animal Welfare, Phylogenetic Analysis and Habitat Selection.

▲ 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 Change11▲ 6.7×10 topics
  2. Population Dynamics10▲ 56×7 topics
  3. Genetic Structure7▲ 139×4 topics
  4. Habitat Fragmentation5▲ 31×3 topics
  5. Animal Welfare5▲ 76×3 topics
  6. Genomic Analysis5▲ 30×4 topics
  7. Phylogenetic Analysis5▲ 21×4 topics
  8. Emotional State5▲ 235×1 topic
  9. Habitat Selection5▲ 86×2 topics
  10. Stress Indicators5▲ 235×1 topic
  11. Social Cognition4▲ 41×2 topics
  12. Conservation Biology4▲ 64×2 topics
  13. Animal-Assisted Therapy4▲ 382×1 topic
  14. Conservation4▲ 15×8 topics
  15. Dog Domestication4▲ 382×1 topic
  16. Adaptive Evolution4▲ 77×2 topics
  17. Evolution4▲ 23×6 topics
  18. Natural Selection4▲ 80×2 topics
  19. Amphibian Declines4▲ 219×1 topic
  20. Chytridiomycosis4▲ 219×1 topic
  21. Reproductive Strategies4▲ 103×2 topics
  22. Evolutionary Dynamics4▲ 109×1 topic
  23. Phenotypic Plasticity4▲ 135×1 topic
  24. Genetic Diversity4▲ 12×8 topics
  25. Animal Movement3▲ 90×1 topic
  26. Occupancy Rates3▲ 90×1 topic
  27. Gut Microbiota3▲ 13×5 topics
  28. Bycatch2▲ 311×1 topic
  29. Marine Turtles2▲ 311×1 topic
  30. Altruism2▲ 34×2 topics
  31. Amino Acids2▲ 27×2 topics
  32. Cooperation2▲ 40×2 topics
  33. Primates2▲ 125×1 topic
  34. Social Behavior2▲ 37×1 topic
  35. Acoustic Communication2▲ 51×3 topics
  36. Adaptation2▲ 10×4 topics
  37. Evolutionary Biology2▲ 57×2 topics
  38. Probiotics2▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Intestinal Barrier2▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Population Genetics2▲ 18×3 topics

Which research topics does San Francisco Zoo publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Human-Animal Interaction…2Human-Animal Interaction Studies: 2 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welf…2Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 2 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Reproduction: 1 fractional worksAmphibian and Reptile Biology: 1 fractional worksAnimal and Plant Science Education: 0 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 0 fractional worksPrimate Behavior and Ecology: 0 fractional worksTurtle Biology and Conservation: 0 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 0 fractional works
GeneticsSmall AnimalsEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsGlobal and Planetary Change4 others

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

  1. 1 Human-Animal Interaction Studies Genetics 2 works
  2. 2 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 2 works
  3. 3 Animal Behavior and Reproduction Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  4. 4 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  5. 5 Animal and Plant Science Education Social Psychology 0 works
  6. 6 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 0 works
  8. 8 Turtle Biology and Conservation Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  9. 9 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 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 available25.6%not open74.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.4%domestic only92.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has San Francisco Zoo's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 0% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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