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SHIELDS for Families

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Research works
55
▲ 39% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.5k
26.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
29.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
49%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: SHIELDS for Families 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.90× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 2.66× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9.34× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.79× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.21× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.42× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 9.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at SHIELDS for Families?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Prognostic Factors, Primary Care, Public Opinion, Maternal Mortality, Radiation Therapy, Child Mortality, Health Systems and Retinoblastoma.

▲ 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 27 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 27 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology2◆ 0.88×15 topics
  2. Prognostic Factors2▲ 7.8×8 topics
  3. Primary Care2▲ 6.4×4 topics
  4. Cancer1▲ 1.64×3 topics
  5. Genetic Mutations1▲ 4.6×3 topics
  6. Maternal Mortality1▲ 13×2 topics
  7. Public Opinion1▲ 13×2 topics
  8. Radiation Therapy1▲ 16×2 topics
  9. Adolescents1▲ 6.2×3 topics
  10. Child Mortality1▲ 38×1 topic
  11. Climate Change1▼ 0.81×8 topics
  12. Health Systems1▲ 38×1 topic
  13. Aquaculture1▲ 7.9×2 topics
  14. Children1▲ 7.9×2 topics
  15. Family1▲ 30×1 topic
  16. Parental Illness1▲ 74×1 topic
  17. Retinoblastoma1▲ 115×1 topic
  18. Risk Factors1▲ 1.86×6 topics
  19. Uveal Melanoma1▲ 115×1 topic
  20. Communication1▲ 6.3×1 topic
  21. Fish Feed1▲ 31×1 topic
  22. Gender Inequality1▲ 14×1 topic
  23. Nutrition1▲ 4.2×1 topic
  24. Political Economy1▲ 7.1×1 topic
  25. Referral1▲ 93×1 topic
  26. Sexual Violence1▲ 49×1 topic
  27. Welfare State1▲ 19×1 topic

Which research topics does SHIELDS for Families publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, Taxation and Legal Issues, Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation and Geophysical Methods and Applications.

Ruminant Nutrition and D…0Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 0 fractional worksTaxation and Legal Issues0Taxation and Legal Issues: 0 fractional worksAsphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation: 0 fractional worksGeophysical Methods and …0Geophysical Methods and Applications: 0 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenan…0Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 0 fractional worksLegal and Constitutional…0Legal and Constitutional Studies: 0 fractional worksCorporate Taxation and A…0Corporate Taxation and Avoidance: 0 fractional worksLogic, Reasoning, and Knowledge: 0 fractional worksLogic, programming, and type systems: 0 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecology Research: 0 fractional works
Agronomy and Crop ScienceAccountingCivil and Structural EngineeringOcean Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 0 works
  2. 2 Taxation and Legal Issues Accounting 0 works
  3. 3 Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Geophysical Methods and Applications Ocean Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Legal and Constitutional Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Corporate Taxation and Avoidance Accounting 0 works
  8. 8 Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  9. 9 Logic, programming, and type systems Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  10. 10 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 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 available49.1%not open50.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.8%domestic only70.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has SHIELDS for Families's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 39% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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