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Science and Decisions Center

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Research works
7
▲ 558% vs 2013–17
Citations
207
30.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
33.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
69%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Science and Decisions Center 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.28× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.88× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.66× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.55× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceDecision Sciences: 8.92× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8.77× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which research topics does Science and Decisions Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact.

Land Use and Ecosystem Services: 1 fractional worksEconomic and Environmental Valuation: 0 fractional worksPrion Diseases and Protein Misfolding: 0 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 0 fractional worksComplex Systems and Decision Making: 0 fractional worksBayesian Modeling and Causal Inference: 0 fractional worksForest Management and Po…0Forest Management and Policy: 0 fractional worksHousing Market and Economics: 0 fractional worksEcosystem dynamics and resilience: 0 fractional worksPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology: 0 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeEconomics and EconometricsMolecular BiologyEcology2 others

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

  1. 1 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  2. 2 Economic and Environmental Valuation Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding Molecular Biology 0 works
  4. 4 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 0 works
  5. 5 Complex Systems and Decision Making Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  6. 6 Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  7. 7 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  8. 8 Housing Market and Economics Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  9. 9 Ecosystem dynamics and resilience Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology Ecology 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 available68.9%not open31.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.1%domestic only88.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Science and Decisions Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 558% higher than in 2013–2017.

20152020
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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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