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The Carpentries

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Research works
22
▼ 78% vs 2018-21
Citations
23
1.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
99%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
The Carpentries

Not ranked overall: The Carpentries 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 The Carpentries work in?

In all years, 44% of research at The Carpentries is in Social Sciences, 41% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (24%), Computer Science (16%), Engineering (15%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 10 fractional works · 44.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 24.3% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 19.7% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 14.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 13.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 41.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 15.7% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 13.2% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 15.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 8.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 11.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKThe Carpentries22fractional works, all years
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences41%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences44%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities524.3%
    2. Decision Sciences314.2%
    3. Social Sciences14.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.5%
    5. Psychology00.3%
    1. Computer Science315.7%
    2. Engineering315.0%
    3. Environmental Science28.2%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.5%
    5. Mathematics00.5%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    7. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology13.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.4%
    1. Medicine12.5%
    2. Health Professions00.3%
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: 2.37× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.45× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 3.41× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.01× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 5.63× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 12.86× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 12.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences12.86×1 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology7.45×1 works
  3. Arts and Humanities5.63×1 works
  4. Computer Science3.41×2 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.37×1 works
  6. Environmental Science2.01×1 works
  7. Social Sciences0.59×1 works
  8. Engineering0.51×1 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×0 works
  10. Medicine0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at The Carpentries?

Ranked on the quality score, Erin Becker, Belinda Weaver and T. Mark Hodges lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Carpentries.

  1. 1 Erin Becker United States · #1,573,217 worldwide 308 citations · 47 works
  2. 2 Belinda Weaver United States · #4,076,711 worldwide 115 citations · 50 works
  3. 3 T. Mark Hodges United States · #4,859,847 worldwide 28 citations · 73 works
All ranked researchers at The Carpentries

What are the most cited papers from The Carpentries?

The most cited paper from The Carpentries is "Community Organizations: Changing the Culture in Which Research Software Is Developed and Sustained" (Daniel S. Katz, Lois Curfman McInnes, David E. Bernholdt et al., 2018), with 48 citations. Next come "CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure for open science" (39) and "Making Common Fund data more findable: catalyzing a data ecosystem" (27).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Community Organizations: Changing the Culture in Which Research Software Is Developed and Sustained Daniel S. Katz, Lois Curfman McInnes, David E. Bernholdt et al. · Computing in Science & Engineering Open access 7 Dec 2018 48
2 CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure for open science Tyson L. Swetnam et al. · PLoS Computational Biology Open access 7 Feb 2024 39
3 Making Common Fund data more findable: catalyzing a data ecosystem Amanda L. Charbonneau et al. · GigaScience Open access 2022 27
4 Spontaneous and Fungicide-Induced Genomic Variation inSclerotinia sclerotiorum Nikita Gambhir, Zhian N. Kamvar, Rebecca S. Higgins et al. · Phytopathology 15 Dec 2020 27
5 An international consensus on effective, inclusive, and career-spanning short-format training in the life sciences and beyond Jason Williams et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 9 Nov 2023 16
All 32 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at The Carpentries?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Maritime Archaeology, Mediterranean, Sustainability, Education, Bioinformatics, Environmental Impact, Workflow Management and Reproducibility.

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

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Maritime Archaeology4▲ 855×1 topic
  2. Mediterranean4▲ 176×1 topic
  3. Sustainability3▲ 7.9×4 topics
  4. Education3▲ 9.1×5 topics
  5. Bioinformatics2▲ 90×2 topics
  6. Environmental Impact2▲ 7.7×4 topics
  7. Reproducibility2▲ 264×1 topic
  8. Scientific Workflows2▲ 264×1 topic
  9. Workflow Management2▲ 90×2 topics
  10. Marine Pollution2▲ 397×2 topics
  11. Big Data2▲ 13×6 topics
  12. Renewable Energy2▲ 7.2×2 topics
  13. Data Sharing1▲ 328×1 topic
  14. Scientific Data Management1▲ 422×1 topic
  15. Offshore Decommissioning1▲ 577×1 topic
  16. Ship Recycling1▲ 577×1 topic
  17. Machine Learning1▲ 2.3×6 topics
  18. Exploration1▲ 371×1 topic
  19. Functional Foods1▲ 73×1 topic
  20. Sea Cucumbers1▲ 562×1 topic
  21. Travel Writing1▲ 591×1 topic

Which research topics does The Carpentries publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Maritime and Coastal Archaeology, Echinoderm biology and ecology, American Environmental and Regional History and Research Data Management Practices.

Maritime and Coastal Arc…1Maritime and Coastal Archaeology: 1 fractional worksEchinoderm biology and e…1Echinoderm biology and ecology: 1 fractional worksAmerican Environmental a…1American Environmental and Regional History: 1 fractional worksResearch Data Management…1Research Data Management Practices: 1 fractional worksChemical and Environmental Engineering Research: 1 fractional worksNanotechnology research and applications: 1 fractional worksInterdisciplinary Resear…1Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration: 1 fractional worksAlexander von Humboldt S…1Alexander von Humboldt Studies: 1 fractional worksBig Data and Digital Eco…1Big Data and Digital Economy: 1 fractional worksScientific Computing and…0Scientific Computing and Data Management: 0 fractional works
ArcheologyAquatic ScienceManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawInformation Systems3 others

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

  1. 1 Maritime and Coastal Archaeology Archeology 1 works
  2. 2 Echinoderm biology and ecology Aquatic Science 1 works
  3. 3 American Environmental and Regional History Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  4. 4 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 1 works
  5. 5 Chemical and Environmental Engineering Research Information Systems 1 works
  6. 6 Nanotechnology research and applications Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration Information Systems and Management 1 works
  8. 8 Alexander von Humboldt Studies Microbiology 1 works
  9. 9 Big Data and Digital Economy Information Systems 1 works
  10. 10 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 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 available99.0%not open1.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.0%domestic only68.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has The Carpentries's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 78% lower than in 2018-2021.

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