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SELVA

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Research works
36
▼ 37% vs 2018-21
Citations
417
11.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
50%
world 18%
SELVA

Not ranked overall: SELVA 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 SELVA work in?

In all years, 71% of research at SELVA is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (70%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 26 fractional works · 70.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 25 fractional works · 69.8% of its workEcology: 15 fractional works · 41.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 4 fractional works · 11.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 9.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 19.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 11.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 5.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKSELVA36fractional works, all years
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences71%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences6%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science2569.8%
    2. Computer Science00.5%
    3. Engineering00.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences411.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology12.5%
    1. Social Sciences12.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.5%
    4. Decision Sciences00.9%
    5. Psychology00.2%
    1. Medicine12.8%
    2. Nursing00.5%
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: 2.90× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.28× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 12.76× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksMedicineNursing: 4.60× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.16× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.46× 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, 12.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science12.76×5 works
  2. Nursing4.60×0 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.90×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.28×0 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.16×0 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.57×0 works
  7. Social Sciences0.46×0 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.35×0 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.31×0 works
  10. Computer Science0.29×0 works
  11. Medicine0.29×0 works
  12. Psychology0.25×0 works

Who are the top researchers at SELVA?

Ranked on the quality score, Camila Gómez, Nicholas J. Bayly and Carlos Andrés Páez lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SELVA.

  1. 1 Camila Gómez Colombia · #1,484,904 worldwide 1.2k citations · 70 works
  2. 2 Nicholas J. Bayly Colombia · #2,815,978 worldwide 1.4k citations · 89 works
  3. 3 Carlos Andrés Páez Colombia · #4,797,929 worldwide 128 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Juan Carlos Verhelst Colombia · #5,637,921 worldwide 73 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Esteban Botero‐Delgadillo Colombia · #6,592,044 worldwide 594 citations · 87 works
All ranked researchers at SELVA

What are the most cited papers from SELVA?

The most cited paper from SELVA is "Current threats faced by Neotropical parrot populations" (Igor Berkunsky et al., 2017), with 161 citations. Next come "Niche-tracking migrants and niche-switching residents: evolution of climatic niches in New World warblers (Parulidae)" (132) and "Fuel loads acquired at a stopover site influence the pace of intercontinental migration in a boreal songbird" (123).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Current threats faced by Neotropical parrot populations Igor Berkunsky et al. · Biological Conservation Open access101 authors 7 Sep 2017 161
2 Niche-tracking migrants and niche-switching residents: evolution of climatic niches in New World warblers (Parulidae) Camila Gómez, Elkin A. Tenorio, Paola Marcela Alzate Montoya et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 10 Feb 2016 132
3 Fuel loads acquired at a stopover site influence the pace of intercontinental migration in a boreal songbird Camila Gómez, Nicholas J. Bayly, D. Ryan Norris et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 7 Jun 2017 123
4 Major stopover regions and migratory bottlenecks for Nearctic-Neotropical landbirds within the Neotropics: a review Nicholas J. Bayly, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Wendy E. Easton et al. · Bird Conservation International Open access 29 Oct 2017 105
5 Speciation Associated with Shifts in Migratory Behavior in an Avian Radiation Valentina Gómez‐Bahamón, Roberto Márquez, Alex E. Jahn et al. · Current Biology Open access 19 Mar 2020 74
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at SELVA?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Habitat Selection, Biodiversity, Avian Ecology, Migration Patterns, Population Dynamics, Trophic Cascades and Animal Movement.

▲ 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 Change14▲ 14×14 topics
  2. Habitat Selection12▲ 352×2 topics
  3. Biodiversity7▲ 27×10 topics
  4. Avian Ecology7▲ 569×1 topic
  5. Migration Patterns7▲ 498×1 topic
  6. Population Dynamics7▲ 60×5 topics
  7. Trophic Cascades5▲ 127×2 topics
  8. Animal Movement5▲ 232×1 topic
  9. Occupancy Rates5▲ 232×1 topic
  10. Conservation Biology4▲ 111×3 topics
  11. Invasive Species4▲ 20×9 topics
  12. Ecological Niche4▲ 227×1 topic
  13. Species Distribution Modeling4▲ 227×1 topic
  14. Sustainability3▲ 4.5×5 topics
  15. Conservation3▲ 16×7 topics
  16. Public Policy2▲ 14×2 topics
  17. Global Change2▲ 18×3 topics
  18. Habitat Fragmentation2▲ 20×4 topics
  19. Human Rights2▲ 6.9×2 topics
  20. Resource Management2▲ 32×1 topic
  21. Water Governance2▲ 671×1 topic
  22. Adaptive Evolution2▲ 55×2 topics
  23. Environmental Impact2▲ 3.8×3 topics
  24. Biological Invasions2▲ 39×2 topics
  25. Genetic Diversity2▲ 8.9×5 topics
  26. Natural Selection1▲ 47×1 topic
  27. Phenotypic Plasticity1▲ 86×1 topic
  28. Community Ecology1▲ 32×2 topics
  29. Ecosystem1▲ 26×3 topics
  30. Predator-Prey Interactions1▲ 38×2 topics
  31. Fish Biodiversity1▲ 127×1 topic
  32. Freshwater Ecoregions1▲ 127×1 topic
  33. Functional Diversity1▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Habitat Connectivity1▲ 289×1 topic
  35. Road Ecology1▲ 289×1 topic
  36. Species Richness1▲ 43×1 topic
  37. Acoustic Communication1▲ 50×2 topics
  38. Illegal Wildlife Trade1▲ 279×1 topic
  39. Parrot Poaching1▲ 279×1 topic
  40. plague1▲ 146×1 topic

Which research topics does SELVA publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Avian ecology and behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses.

Avian ecology and behavior1Avian ecology and behavior: 1 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 1 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 1 fractional worksWildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses: 0 fractional worksPlant and animal studies0Plant and animal studies: 0 fractional worksWildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation: 0 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 0 fractional worksCoffee research and impacts: 0 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 0 fractional worksIndigenous and Place-Based Education: 0 fractional works
EcologyEcological ModelingNature and Landscape ConservationEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics3 others

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

  1. 1 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 1 works
  2. 2 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 1 works
  3. 3 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 1 works
  4. 4 Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  5. 5 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  6. 6 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  8. 8 Coffee research and impacts Pharmacology 0 works
  9. 9 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 0 works
  10. 10 Indigenous and Place-Based Education Education 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 available51.9%not open48.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors49.7%domestic only50.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has SELVA's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% 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 SELVA as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000027% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%SELVA0.000020% in 20252020

Fractional works of SELVA over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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