Ecology

1.9M papers and 51.7M indexed citations i.

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1.9M papers covering Ecology have received a total of 51.7M indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and also cover the fields of Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Molecular Biology. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Some of the most active scholars covering Ecology are Ulrich K. Laemmli, EJ Wood, Frederick Sanger, Alan Coulson, David Tilman, Rob Knight, Kevin J. Gaston, Noah Fierer, R. C. Edgar and Rattan Lal.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers citing papers about Ecology

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers covering Ecology. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers covering Ecology.

Countries where authors publish papers about Ecology

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This map shows the geographic impact of research in Ecology. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers about Ecology with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Ecology more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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