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Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies

Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 7k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the phylogenetic analysis, evolutionary history, and taxonomic revision of spiders, utilizing molecular techniques such as DNA barcoding and phylogenomics. It explores the diversity, biogeography, and cryptic species within the Araneae order, shedding light on ancient vicariance patterns and evolutionary morphology.

  • Spider Phylogenomics
  • DNA Barcoding
  • Molecular Phylogeny
  • Taxonomic Revision
  • Species Delimitation
  • Araneae Diversity
  • Evolutionary Morphology
  • Biogeography
  • Cryptic Diversity
  • Ancient Vicariance Patterns
Research works
7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
701
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies

Which countries lead Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (282 and 157 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 282 works
  2. 2 United States 157 works
  3. 3 Russia 153 works
  4. 4 India 145 works
  5. 5 Brazil 100 works
  6. 6 France 99 works
  7. 7 Germany 83 works
  8. 8 Italy 58 works
  9. 9 South Africa 46 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 46 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 24.1%United States: 13.5%Russia: 13.1%India: 12.4%6 others listed: 36.9%24%largest
China282 · 24.1%United States157 · 13.5%Russia153 · 13.1%India145 · 12.4%6 others listed432 · 36.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Leibniz Association.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 88 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 57 works
  3. 3 Leibniz AssociationGermany 32 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 30 works
  5. 5 Instituto ButantanBrazil 25 works
  6. 6 Hebei UniversityChina 24 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 22 works
  8. 8 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 22 works
  9. 9 Zoological Survey of IndiaIndia 20 works
  10. 10 Southwest UniversityChina 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies include Huanming Yang, David Lee Kaplan and Robert B. Jackson.

  1. 1 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  2. 2 David Lee Kaplan United States 171k citations
  3. 3 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k citations
  4. 4 Bing Ren United States 121k citations
  5. 5 Kang Xu United States 112k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies?

The most cited paper in Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies is "THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE" (Darrel R. Frost, Taran Grant, Julián Faivovich et al., 2006), with 1,931 citations. Next come "The mechanical design of spider silks: from fibroin sequence to mechanical function" (1,170) and "SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE FROG FAMILY HYLIDAE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HYLINAE: PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS AND TAXONOMIC REVISION" (975).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE Darrel R. Frost, Taran Grant, Julián Faivovich et al. · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Open access Mar 2006 1,931
2 The mechanical design of spider silks: from fibroin sequence to mechanical function John M. Gosline, Paul A. Guerette, Christine Ortlepp et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology Dec 1999 1,170
3 SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE FROG FAMILY HYLIDAE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HYLINAE: PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS AND TAXONOMIC REVISION Julián Faivovich, Célio F. B. Haddad, Paulo Christiano de Anchieta Garcia et al. · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ReviewOpen access 2005 975
4 Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae) Jonathan A. Coddington, Herbert W. Levi · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Nov 1991 727
5 Community Assembly Through Adaptive Radiation in Hawaiian Spiders Rosemary Grace Gillespie · Science 15 Jan 2004 637
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Where is Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies research done?

The largest centres of Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), São Paulo (Brazil), Beijing (China) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 49 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 41 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 36 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 33 works
  5. 5 BaodingChina 28 works
  6. 6 RennesFrance 27 works
  7. 7 KolkataIndia 25 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 23 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 21 works
  10. 10 TurinItaly 20 works
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Where is the best place to study Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Hubei University, Hebei University and Shenyang Normal University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 9.83%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hebei UniversityShenyang Normal Univ…Hubei UniversityAccademia Albertina …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hubei UniversityChina 68.813.3%49.5×15 +91.3%
2Hebei UniversityChina 68.214.7%66.2×24 +266.4%
3Shenyang Normal UniversityChina 65.514.5%209.6×16 +108.1%
4Accademia Albertina delle Belle ArtiItaly 57.69.0%2108.8×18 -
5Southwest UniversityChina 56.68.1%22.3×20 +208.8%
6Université de RennesFrance 55.87.3%53.2×14 -
7University of TurkuFinland 47.314.2%21.1×11 -28.6%
8Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 41.76.4%221.9×15 -
9University of the Free StateSouth Africa 39.45.5%42.5×16 -21.6%
10Altai State UniversityRussia 33.95.3%118.2×12 +25.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, country by country

Is Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0058% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies0.0087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies9.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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