Research in Boulder
Science Explorer records 134 research institutions in Boulder, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Colorado Boulder, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
- Research institutions
- 134 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 124k ◆ 0% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 21.6% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Boulder?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Boulder strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Boulder is most concentrated in Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Global and Planetary Change (15.8× the world share in Atmospheric Science).
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 959.6 works16×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 935.4 works13×
- Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 745.8 works7.1×
- Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 1,474.5 works6.8×
- OceanographySubfield · 225.1 works5.8×
- Physics and AstronomyField · 1,675.3 works5.5×
- InstrumentationSubfield · 31.9 works4.6×
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 424.1 works4.3×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
Which keywords describe research in Boulder?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Solar Wind, Ocean Circulation, Remote Sensing, Hydrological Cycle, Data Assimilation and Air Quality.
- Arctic
- Atmospheric
- Ozone Depletion
- Natural Gas
- Carbon Dioxide
- Atmospheric Aerosols
- Terrestrial Planets
- Hydrology
- Coronal Mass Ejections
- Magnetosphere
- Electron Acceleration
- Convective Parameterization
- Ensemble Kalman Filter
- Precipitation Extremes
- Extreme Events
- Satellite Observations
- Air Quality
- Hydrological Cycle
- Solar Wind
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Change
- Global Warming
- Ocean Circulation
- Data Assimilation
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Boundary Layer
- Climate Modeling
- Probabilistic Forecasting
- Sea Level Rise
- Mesoscale Modeling
- Ionosphere
- Hydrological Modeling
- Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Solar System Abundances
- Chemical Composition
- Black Carbon
- Shale Gas
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Stratospheric Water Vapor
- Methane
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city'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
- Climate Change1,346▲ 3.6×103 topics
- Remote Sensing552▲ 3.2×40 topics
- Global Warming450▲ 8.0×15 topics
- Solar Wind420▲ 33×2 topics
- Ocean Circulation385▲ 21×3 topics
- Hydrological Cycle354▲ 27×2 topics
- Data Assimilation342▲ 16×4 topics
- Air Quality312▲ 12×6 topics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions279▲ 7.5×9 topics
- Satellite Observations277▲ 21×3 topics
- Boundary Layer271▲ 16×4 topics
- Extreme Events263▲ 22×2 topics
- Climate Modeling246▲ 25×1 topic
- Precipitation Extremes246▲ 25×1 topic
- Probabilistic Forecasting244▲ 9.1×3 topics
- Ensemble Kalman Filter241▲ 17×2 topics
- Sea Level Rise238▲ 14×3 topics
- Convective Parameterization232▲ 31×1 topic
- Mesoscale Modeling232▲ 31×1 topic
- Electron Acceleration219▲ 24×2 topics
- Ionosphere215▲ 28×1 topic
- Magnetosphere215▲ 28×1 topic
- Hydrological Modeling211▲ 6.5×5 topics
- Coronal Mass Ejections205▲ 40×1 topic
- Solar Dynamics Observatory205▲ 40×1 topic
- Hydrology170▲ 9.8×4 topics
- Solar System Abundances161▲ 24×1 topic
- Terrestrial Planets161▲ 24×1 topic
- Chemical Composition159▲ 12×2 topics
- Atmospheric Aerosols158▲ 21×1 topic
- Black Carbon158▲ 21×1 topic
- Carbon Dioxide157▲ 7.4×4 topics
- Shale Gas154▲ 8.8×2 topics
- Natural Gas149▲ 11×3 topics
- Hydraulic Fracturing145▲ 9.5×2 topics
- Ozone Depletion144▲ 35×1 topic
- Stratospheric Water Vapor144▲ 35×1 topic
- Atmospheric141▲ 21×1 topic
- Methane141▲ 21×1 topic
- Arctic136▲ 8.8×4 topics
What research is done in Boulder?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Climate variability and modelsGlobal and Planetary Change 246 works
- 2 Meteorological Phenomena and SimulationsAtmospheric Science 232 works
- 3 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamicsAstronomy and Astrophysics 215 works
- 4 Solar and Space Plasma DynamicsAstronomy and Astrophysics 205 works
- 5 Astro and Planetary ScienceAstronomy and Astrophysics 161 works
- 6 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosolsAtmospheric Science 158 works
- 7 Atmospheric Ozone and ClimateAtmospheric Science 144 works
- 8 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsGlobal and Planetary Change 141 works
- 9 Atmospheric aerosols and cloudsGlobal and Planetary Change 108 works
- 10 Cryospheric studies and observationsAtmospheric Science 98 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.