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Whale Museum

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Research works
90
▲ 138% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.2k
13.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
56%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Whale Museum is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.32× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.98× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10.17× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 8.02× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMedicineVeterinary: 15.34× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.76× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.57× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 15.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Whale Museum?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Acoustic Communication, Population Dynamics, Conservation, Anthropogenic Noise, Marine Mammals, Ocean Acidification and Arctic.

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

All 13 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change8▲ 14×11 topics
  2. Acoustic Communication5▲ 492×2 topics
  3. Population Dynamics4▲ 86×4 topics
  4. Conservation4▲ 48×2 topics
  5. Anthropogenic Noise4▲ 704×1 topic
  6. Marine Mammals4▲ 704×1 topic
  7. Sustainability2▲ 3.4×5 topics
  8. Ocean Acidification2▲ 102×3 topics
  9. Remote Sensing1▲ 4.9×2 topics
  10. Arctic1▲ 53×1 topic
  11. Sea Ice1▲ 227×1 topic
  12. Infrared1▲ 147×1 topic
  13. Small Target1▲ 147×1 topic

Which research topics does Whale Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Marine animal studies overview, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Infrared Target Detection Methodologies and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

Marine animal studies ov…4Marine animal studies overview: 4 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 1 fractional worksInfrared Target Detection Methodologies: 1 fractional worksAnimal Vocal Communicati…1Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior: 1 fractional worksUnderwater Acoustics Res…1Underwater Acoustics Research: 1 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosyst…1Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 1 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Management: 1 fractional worksOcean Acidification Effects and Responses: 0 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 0 fractional worksInnovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems: 0 fractional works
EcologyAtmospheric ScienceAerospace EngineeringDevelopmental Biology4 others

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

  1. 1 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 4 works
  2. 2 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 1 works
  3. 3 Infrared Target Detection Methodologies Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior Developmental Biology 1 works
  5. 5 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 1 works
  6. 6 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 1 works
  7. 7 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  8. 8 Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses Oceanography 0 works
  9. 9 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  10. 10 Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems Sociology and Political Science 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 available56.1%not open43.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.8%domestic only70.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Whale Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 138% 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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