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Science Foundation Arizona

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Research works
15
▲ 34% vs 2018-21
Citations
359
23.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Science Foundation Arizona

Not ranked overall: Science Foundation Arizona is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Science Foundation Arizona work in?

In all years, 42% of research at Science Foundation Arizona is in Physical Sciences, 39% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (23%), Engineering (16%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 41.9% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 16.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 38.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 22.8% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 13.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.6% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKScienceFoundation…15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences42%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences39%

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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering216.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences210.6%
    3. Environmental Science17.9%
    4. Computer Science14.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy02.5%
    1. Social Sciences322.8%
    2. Decision Sciences18.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting15.1%
    4. Psychology01.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology02.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.3%
    4. Neuroscience01.4%
    1. Medicine17.3%
    2. Health Professions02.2%
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: 0.88× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Computer Science: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.90× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 2.63× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.14× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 2.79× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.94× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.14× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 2.49× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences3.14×0 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.90×0 works
  3. Health Professions2.79×0 works
  4. Engineering2.63×1 works
  5. Psychology2.49×0 works
  6. Environmental Science2.14×0 works
  7. Computer Science1.56×0 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.94×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.88×0 works
  10. Medicine0.29×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.19×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Science Foundation Arizona?

The most cited paper from Science Foundation Arizona is "A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum" (Nikolai D. Ovodov, Susan J. Crockford, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin et al., 2011), with 249 citations. Next come "Fire and alluvial chronology in Yellowstone National Park: Climatic and intrinsic controls on Holocene geomorphic processes" (245) and "Fire, storms, and erosional events in the Idaho batholith" (218).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum Nikolai D. Ovodov, Susan J. Crockford, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 28 Jul 2011 249
2 Fire and alluvial chronology in Yellowstone National Park: Climatic and intrinsic controls on Holocene geomorphic processes Grant A. Meyer, Stephen G. Wells, A. J. T. Jull · Geological Society of America Bulletin Oct 1995 245
3 Fire, storms, and erosional events in the Idaho batholith Grant A. Meyer, Jennifer L. Pierce, Spencer H. Wood et al. · Hydrological Processes 25 Oct 2001 218
4 Response of alluvial systems to fire and climate change in Yellowstone National Park Grant A. Meyer, Stephen G. Wells, Robert C. Balling et al. · Nature May 1992 176
5 Divergent mtDNA lineages of goats in an Early Neolithic site, far from the initial domestication areas Helena Fernández, Sandrine Hughes, Jean‐Denis Vigne et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 9 Oct 2006 139
All 48 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Science Foundation Arizona publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety and 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage.

Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 0 fractional worksAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety: 0 fractional worksHuman-Automation Interac…0Human-Automation Interaction and Safety: 0 fractional works3D Surveying and Cultura…03D Surveying and Cultural Heritage: 0 fractional worksDigital Transformation in Industry: 0 fractional worksSafety Systems Engineering in Autonomy: 0 fractional worksVirtual Reality Applicat…0Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts: 0 fractional worksAugmented Reality Applic…0Augmented Reality Applications: 0 fractional worksRobotics and Sensor-Base…0Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization: 0 fractional worksVideo Surveillance and T…0Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods: 0 fractional works
Environmental EngineeringAutomotive EngineeringSocial PsychologyGeology5 others

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

  1. 1 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety Automotive Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage Geology 0 works
  5. 5 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  7. 7 Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts Human-Computer Interaction 0 works
  8. 8 Augmented Reality Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0 works
  9. 9 Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 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 available38.6%not open61.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.6%domestic only83.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Science Foundation Arizona's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher 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 Science Foundation Arizona as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000016% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Science Foundation Arizona0.000026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Science Foundation Arizona over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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