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ThinkFirst Foundation

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Research works
4
▼ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
39
9.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
ThinkFirst Foundation

Not ranked overall: ThinkFirst Foundation 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 ThinkFirst Foundation work in?

In all years, 60% of research at ThinkFirst Foundation is in Social Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (24%), Decision Sciences (24%), Environmental Science (14%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 59.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 23.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 23.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 11.9% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 21.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 14.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 19.0% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 14.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.8% of its workALL ITS WORKThinkFirstFoundation4fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences60%

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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting123.8%
    2. Decision Sciences123.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance011.9%
    1. Environmental Science114.3%
    2. Computer Science07.1%
    1. Medicine114.3%
    2. Health Professions04.8%
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.

What are the most cited papers from ThinkFirst Foundation?

The most cited paper from ThinkFirst Foundation is "Concussion 101" (Richard Williamson, Deborah Gerhardstein, Javier F. Cárdenas et al., 2014), with 36 citations. Next come "Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Practices in the Banking Sector of Nepal" (25) and "A Seat at the Table: Representation of Global Neurosurgery in the G4 Alliance" (18).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Concussion 101 Richard Williamson, Deborah Gerhardstein, Javier F. Cárdenas et al. · Neurosurgery 19 Sep 2014 36
2 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Practices in the Banking Sector of Nepal Kshitiz Upadhyay-Dhungel, Amar Dhungel · Banking Journal Open access 27 Jan 2013 25
3 A Seat at the Table: Representation of Global Neurosurgery in the G4 Alliance Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, Natalie Shenaman, Marj Ratel et al. · JOURNAL OF GLOBAL NEUROSURGERY Open access 23 Apr 2021 18
4 Perception of Bank Customers about Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Service Quality Amar Dhungel, Banodita Acharya, Kshitiz Upadhyay-Dhungel · Banking Journal Open access 7 Aug 2012 7
5 Perception and knowledge about HIV/AIDS among Nepalese adolescent Banodita Acharya Dhungel, Nilam Shrestha, K U-Dhungel · Janaki Medical College Journal of Medical Science Open access 5 Dec 2013 2
All 5 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does ThinkFirst Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Aquatic Ecosystems and P…0Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics: 0 fractional worksSoil and Water Nutrient …0Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics: 0 fractional worksMicrobial Community Ecol…0Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology: 0 fractional works
Environmental ChemistryEcology

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

  1. 1 Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  2. 2 Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  3. 3 Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 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 available67.0%not open33.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.8%domestic only86.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ThinkFirst Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 100% lower than in 2018-2021.

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