Scientific Services

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Scientific Services sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Science takes 7.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Environmental ScienceField · 46.1 works7.4×

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

• Environmental Science 7.4×
• Veterinary 4.9×
• Dentistry 2.1×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2.0×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 1.8×
• Nursing 1.1×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1.0×
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.9×
• Immunology and Microbiology 0.8×
• Health Professions 0.8×
• Chemical Engineering 0.8×
• Medicine 0.8×
• Chemistry 0.7×
• Physics and Astronomy 0.6×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.6×
• Engineering 0.6×
• Mathematics 0.5×
• Arts and Humanities 0.5×
• Social Sciences 0.5×
• Materials Science 0.4×
• Computer Science 0.3×
• Neuroscience 0.3×
• Energy 0.3×
• Psychology 0.2×
• Decision Sciences 0.2×
• Business, Management and Accounting 0.1×

Ranked on the composite score, Janice R. Matthews, Izak P. J. Smit and D. C. Graham lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Scientific Services.

1. 1 🇿🇦 Janice R. Matthews South Africa · #604,670 worldwide 15 citations · 18 works
2. 2 🇿🇦 Izak P. J. Smit South Africa · #857,062 worldwide 101 citations · 18 works
3. 3 🇿🇦 D. C. Graham South Africa · #1,017,625 worldwide 34 citations · 21 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Conservation, Habitat Fragmentation, Ecosystem, Global Change and Population Dynamics.

By volume in 2022–2025: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change and Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research.

1. 1 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 6 works
2. 2 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 3 works
3. 3 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 2 works
4. 4 Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research Biomedical Engineering 2 works
5. 5 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 2 works
6. 6 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 2 works
7. 7 Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
8. 8 Heavy metals in environment Pollution 1 works
9. 9 Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts Pollution 1 works
10. 10 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% lower than in 2013–2017.

• University of the Western Cape
• Cape Peninsula University of Technology
• South African Medical Research Council
• Groote Schuur Hospital
• Tygerberg Hospital
• Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa
• Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
• South African Radio Astronomy Observatory