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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

In research, United States Fish and Wildlife Service stands highest in Environmental Science (#1,168 of 3,551 worldwide), Ecology (#271 of 578 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#7,358 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology — Nature and Landscape Conservation is 58.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,087
of 28,054 · #5,650 all time
Rank in United States
#1,216
of 4,192
Research works
6.3k
▲ 5% vs 2013–17
Citations
179k
28.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

What is United States Fish and Wildlife Service known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Environmental ScienceField #1,168 of 3,551 12.8%345 #531
EcologySubfield #271 of 578 11.9%174 #229
Physical SciencesDomain #7,358 of 12,888 12.7%377 #5143
Life SciencesDomain #5,041 of 7,800 14.9%109 #3825
Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield #65 of 72 13.2%73 #132

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where United States Fish and Wildlife Service sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Environmental Science#531 #1,168
  2. Ecology#229 #271
  3. Physical Sciences#5,143 #7,358
  4. Life Sciences#3,825 #5,041
  5. Nature and Landscape Conservation#132 #65
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does United States Fish and Wildlife Service specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nature and Landscape Conservation takes 58.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 72.9 works59×
  2. Ecological ModelingSubfield · 21.7 works55×
  3. EcologySubfield · 174.1 works42×
  4. Environmental ScienceField · 345.3 works13×
  5. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 46.3 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 2.30× its world share, 57 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.41× its world share, 39 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.39× its world share, 13 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.74× its world share, 22 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 13.32× its world share, 345 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.05× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 13.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at United States Fish and Wildlife Service?

Ranked on the composite score, William A. Link, Arthur M. Phillips and John E. Halver lead among researchers whose main affiliation is United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

  1. 1 William A. Link United States · #41,810 worldwide 349 citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Arthur M. Phillips United States · #104,087 worldwide 102 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 John E. Halver United States · #115,668 worldwide 297 citations · 22 works
  4. 4 Leif L. Marking United States · #119,580 worldwide 169 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Fred P. Meyer United States · #163,418 worldwide 148 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 David L. Stalling United States · #215,612 worldwide 227 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Ken Wolf United States · #231,800 worldwide 149 citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Bruce A. Manny United States · #250,645 worldwide 107 citations · 20 works
  9. 9 S. F. Snieszko United States · #273,357 worldwide 127 citations · 34 works
  10. 10 Victor B. Scheffer United States · #316,764 worldwide 81 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Which keywords describe research at United States Fish and Wildlife Service?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Population Dynamics, Habitat Fragmentation, Conservation, Habitat Selection and Fisheries Sustainability.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change220▲ 16×61 topics
  2. Invasive Species123▲ 55×19 topics
  3. Biodiversity87▲ 22×21 topics
  4. Population Dynamics76▲ 58×12 topics
  5. Habitat Fragmentation71▲ 61×5 topics
  6. Conservation69▲ 31×17 topics
  7. Habitat Selection67▲ 172×2 topics
  8. Fisheries Sustainability60▲ 130×2 topics
  9. Trophic Cascades52▲ 105×2 topics
  10. Freshwater Biodiversity49▲ 155×2 topics
  11. Conservation Challenges47▲ 190×1 topic
  12. Flow Regulation47▲ 190×1 topic
  13. Animal Movement38▲ 138×1 topic
  14. Occupancy Rates38▲ 138×1 topic
  15. Ecosystem35▲ 63×3 topics
  16. Conservation Biology33▲ 62×4 topics
  17. Agricultural Intensification29▲ 162×2 topics
  18. Avian Ecology28▲ 259×1 topic
  19. Migration Patterns28▲ 215×1 topic
  20. Remote Sensing27▲ 4.1×17 topics
  21. Model Evaluation26▲ 40×2 topics
  22. Genetic Diversity26▲ 11×13 topics
  23. Conservation Genetics25▲ 128×2 topics
  24. Biodiversity Loss22▲ 84×3 topics
  25. Citizen Science22▲ 43×2 topics
  26. Global Change22▲ 16×5 topics
  27. Ecological Niche22▲ 72×1 topic
  28. Ecosystem Engineering22▲ 150×2 topics
  29. Species Distribution Modeling22▲ 72×1 topic
  30. Resilience21▲ 8.4×3 topics
  31. Sagebrush21▲ 264×1 topic
  32. Wildlife Habitat21▲ 264×1 topic
  33. Predator-Prey Interactions18▲ 44×2 topics
  34. Phylogenetic Analysis18▲ 11×11 topics
  35. Acoustic Communication18▲ 67×3 topics
  36. Ecosystem Resilience18▲ 23×5 topics
  37. Environmental Impacts18▲ 12×4 topics
  38. Species Richness18▲ 52×2 topics
  39. Aquatic Invasions17▲ 173×1 topic
  40. Freshwater Mussels17▲ 173×1 topic

Which research topics does United States Fish and Wildlife Service publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Fish Ecology and Managem…47Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 47 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 38 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 28 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 22 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 21 fractional worksAquatic Invertebrate Eco…17Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior: 17 fractional worksMarine and fisheries research: 13 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 13 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 13 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 12 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationEcologyEcological ModelingGlobal and Planetary Change

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

  1. 1 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 47 works
  2. 2 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 38 works
  3. 3 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 28 works
  4. 4 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 22 works
  5. 5 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 21 works
  6. 6 Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior Ecology 17 works
  7. 7 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 13 works
  8. 8 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 13 works
  9. 9 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 13 works
  10. 10 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 12 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 available29.0%not open71.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.3%domestic only91.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has United States Fish and Wildlife Service's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% 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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