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Nonprofit · Ayr · United Kingdom

The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust

Research works
15
▼ 68% vs 2018-21
Citations
232
15.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%

Not ranked overall: The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust 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 The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust work in?

In all years, 53% of research at The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust is in Life Sciences, 44% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (41%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (36%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (17%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 8 fractional works · 53.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 36.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 20.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 16.9% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 16.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 43.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 40.5% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 20.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKThe AquaticColeoptera…15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences53%Physical Sciences44%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences2%

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 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences536.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology216.9%
    1. Environmental Science640.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences02.3%
    3. Engineering01.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities01.7%
    1. Veterinary01.2%
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.

Who are the top researchers at The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust?

Ranked on the quality score, Garth N. Foster lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust.

  1. 1 Garth N. Foster United Kingdom · #2,876,353 worldwide 3.4k citations · 116 works
All ranked researchers at The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust

What are the most cited papers from The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust?

The most cited paper from The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust is "The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding" (Johannes Bergsten, David T. Bilton, Tomochika Fujisawa et al., 2012), with 500 citations. Next come "Rewilding wetlands: beaver as agents of within-habitat heterogeneity and the responses of contrasting biota" (90) and "The effectiveness of aquatic plants as surrogates for wider biodiversity in standing fresh waters" (66).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding Johannes Bergsten, David T. Bilton, Tomochika Fujisawa et al. · Systematic Biology Open access 7 Mar 2012 500
2 Rewilding wetlands: beaver as agents of within-habitat heterogeneity and the responses of contrasting biota Nigel J. Willby, Alan Law, Oded Levanoni et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 22 Oct 2018 90
3 The effectiveness of aquatic plants as surrogates for wider biodiversity in standing fresh waters Alan Law, Ambroise G. Baker, Carl Derek Sayer et al. · Freshwater Biology Open access 15 Jul 2019 66
4 Are beavers a solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis? Alan Law, Oded Levanoni, Garth N. Foster et al. · Diversity and Distributions Open access 22 Aug 2019 62
5 Macroinvertebrate assemblages of peatland lakes: Assessment of conservation value with respect to anthropogenic land-cover change Tom J. Drinan, Garth N. Foster, Brian Nelson et al. · Biological Conservation 29 Nov 2012 28
All 29 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species.

  1. 1 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 0 works
  2. 2 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 0 works
  3. 3 Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies Ecology 0 works
  4. 4 Marine Ecology and Invasive Species Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  5. 5 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  6. 6 Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  7. 7 Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Ecology and biodiversity studies 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 available32.1%not open67.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.0%domestic only75.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 68% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000061% in 2023.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust0.0000031% in 2024200020102020

Fractional works of The Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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