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Shark Spotters

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Research works
5
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
128
27.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
Shark Spotters

Not ranked overall: Shark Spotters 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 Shark Spotters work in?

In all years, 85% of research at Shark Spotters is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (85%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 85.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 85.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 14.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workALL ITS WORKShark Spotters5fractional works, all years
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences85%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 2 domains and 3 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science485.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences112.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What are the most cited papers from Shark Spotters?

The most cited paper from Shark Spotters is "Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries" (Nuno C. Queiroz et al., 2019), with 405 citations. Next come "Residency, Habitat Use and Sexual Segregation of White Sharks, Carcharodon carcharias in False Bay, South Africa" (132) and "Effects of an Electric Field on White Sharks: In Situ Testing of an Electric Deterrent" (63).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries Nuno C. Queiroz et al. · Nature Open access153 authors 24 Jul 2019 405
2 Residency, Habitat Use and Sexual Segregation of White Sharks, Carcharodon carcharias in False Bay, South Africa Alison A. Kock, Mannus Justin O'Riain, Katya A. L. Mauff et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 28 Jan 2013 132
3 Effects of an Electric Field on White Sharks: In Situ Testing of an Electric Deterrent Charlie P.M. Huveneers, Paul J. Rogers, Jayson M. Semmens et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 2 May 2013 63
4 The Influence of Environmental Variables on the Presence of White Sharks, Carcharodon carcharias at Two Popular Cape Town Bathing Beaches: A Generalized Additive Mixed Model Kay Weltz, Alison A. Kock, Henning Winker et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 16 Jul 2013 49
5 Shark Spotters: Successfully reducing spatial overlap between white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) and recreational water users in False Bay, South Africa Tamlyn Engelbrecht, Alison A. Kock, Sarah Waries et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 25 Sep 2017 47
All 19 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Shark Spotters publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine and fisheries research, Fish Ecology and Management Studies and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies.

Ichthyology and Marine B…0Ichthyology and Marine Biology: 0 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…0Marine and fisheries research: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…0Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksFish Biology and Ecology Studies: 0 fractional worksFish biology, ecology, and behavior: 0 fractional worksIdentification and Quant…0Identification and Quantification in Food: 0 fractional worksAquatic life and conservation: 0 fractional worksMercury impact and mitigation studies: 0 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationGlobal and Planetary ChangeAquatic ScienceMolecular Biology1 others

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

  1. 1 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  2. 2 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  3. 3 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  4. 4 Fish Biology and Ecology Studies Aquatic Science 0 works
  5. 5 Fish biology, ecology, and behavior Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  6. 6 Identification and Quantification in Food Molecular Biology 0 works
  7. 7 Aquatic life and conservation Aquatic Science 0 works
  8. 8 Mercury impact and mitigation studies Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  9. 9 Marine animal studies overview 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 available58.1%not open41.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.4%domestic only65.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Shark Spotters's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% 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 Shark Spotters as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000037% in 2023.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Shark Spotters0.0000092% in 2024200020102020

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

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