Collection Statistics

Top 10 countries by number of institutions and total specimens

Country	Institutions	Specimens
Germany	150	1,088,697
United Kingdom	112	1,479,912
Italy	90	197,873
France	75	306,338
Russia	52	478,328
Switzerland	36	131,480
Austria	29	163,206
Czech Republic	25	106,463
Norway	23	69,451
Sweden	23	268,699

Specimen types found in collections with total counts

Type	Total Count
skins	3,876,694
egg sets	684,489
skeletons	286,249
mounts	286,142
spirit	84,577
miscellaneous	66,165
biometrical data	50,000
tissue samples	45,574
feather preps	31,266
nests	30,127
spread wings	20,900
other	7,859
eggs	6,001
sterna	5,300
type specimens	380

Top 10 largest collections by total specimen count

Institution	Country	Total Specimens
The Natural History Museum	United Kingdom	992,322
Naturalis Biodiversity Center	Netherlands	237,400
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet	Sweden	181,200
Zoologicheskii Institut	Russia	180,200
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle	France	176,300
Koninklijk Museum voor Midden- Afrika / Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale	Belgium	167,400
Museum für Naturkunde	Germany	165,500
Zoologisk Museum	Denmark	163,000
Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig	Germany	142,000
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien	Austria	141,300

Institution distribution by collection size categories

Size Category	Count
Very Large (100,000+)	867

Contact information availability statistics

Contact Type	Count
Email addresses	255
Telephone numbers	267
Fax numbers	3

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Historical Coverage

References span 1815 - 2015

Most diverse collections ranked by number of different specimen types

Institution	Country	Specimen Types
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien	Austria	9 types
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC)	Spain	9 types
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde	Germany	8 types
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden	Germany	8 types
Zoological Museum	Russia	7 types
Musée zoologique de la Ville de Strasbourg	France	7 types
Museo di Storia Naturale di Terrasini	Italy	7 types
Tel-Aviv University Zoological Museum	Israel	7 types
Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg	Germany	7 types
Museo Civico de Storia di Carmagnola	Italy	7 types

Publication timeline showing number of publications by decade

Decade	Publications
2010s	7
2000s	5
1990s	95
1980s	67
1970s	30
1960s	17
1950s	15
1940s	4

Reference coverage statistics and authorship information

Metric	Count
Institutions with references	114 (37%)
Unique authors	223
Cross-institutional studies	4
References with authorship	297 (98%)

Most referenced institutions with citation counts

Institution	Country	References
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien	Austria	16
Museu Bocage	Portugal	10
The Natural History Museum	United Kingdom	9
Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg	Germany	8
Institut für Zoologie	Germany	8
Museo di Storia Naturale di Terrasini	Italy	8
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle	France	8
Zoological Museum	Russia	8
Liverpool Museum	United Kingdom	7
Museum Heineanum	Germany	6

Top academic journals by number of published articles

Journal	Articles
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