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Un-Convention

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Research works
5
▼ 33% vs 2018-21
Citations
19
3.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
Un-Convention

Not ranked overall: Un-Convention 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 Un-Convention work in?

In all years, 46% of research at Un-Convention is in Life Sciences, 35% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (46%), Social Sciences (33%), Environmental Science (8%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 2 fractional works · 46.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 46.4% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 27.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 11.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 7.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 34.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 32.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 31.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 14.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 8.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workALL ITS WORKUn-Convention5fractional works, all years
Life Sciences46%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences35%

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 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences246.4%
    1. Social Sciences232.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities02.1%
    1. Environmental Science08.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences06.4%
    1. Health Professions04.3%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Un-Convention?

The most cited paper from Un-Convention is "Land in balance: The scientific conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality" (Annette Cowie, Barron J. Orr, Victor M. Castillo Sanchez et al., 2017), with 651 citations. Next come "A framework for scaling sustainable land management options" (62) and "Tackling Growing Drought Risks—The Need for a Systemic Perspective" (51).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Land in balance: The scientific conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality Annette Cowie, Barron J. Orr, Victor M. Castillo Sanchez et al. · Environmental Science & Policy Open access 5 Nov 2017 651
2 A framework for scaling sustainable land management options Richard J. Thomas et al. · Land Degradation and Development 4 Jul 2018 62
3 Tackling Growing Drought Risks—The Need for a Systemic Perspective Michael Hagenlocher, Gustavo Naumann, Isabel Meza et al. · Earth s Future Open access Sep 2023 51
4 Sand and dust storms: a growing global health threat calls for international health studies to support policy action Tiantian Li et al. · The Lancet Planetary Health Open access 2025 49
5 Remittances for Adaptation: An ‘Alternative Source’ of International Climate Finance? Barbara Bendandi, Pieter Pauw · Global migration issues Book chapterOpen access 2016 24
All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Un-Convention publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Land Rights and Reforms, Human Rights and Development, Income, Poverty, and Inequality and Disaster Management and Resilience.

Land Rights and Reforms0Land Rights and Reforms: 0 fractional worksHuman Rights and Development: 0 fractional worksIncome, Poverty, and Inequality: 0 fractional worksDisaster Management and …0Disaster Management and Resilience: 0 fractional worksClimate Change, Adaptati…0Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration: 0 fractional worksClimate Change and Geoengineering: 0 fractional worksClimate Change and Health Impacts: 0 fractional works
Soil ScienceSociology and Political ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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

  1. 1 Land Rights and Reforms Soil Science 0 works
  2. 2 Human Rights and Development Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Income, Poverty, and Inequality Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  6. 6 Climate Change and Geoengineering Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  7. 7 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  8. 8 Climate change impacts on agriculture Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  9. 9 Hydrology and Drought Analysis Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 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 available11.5%not open88.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.9%domestic only68.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Un-Convention's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% lower than in 2018-2021.

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