Research in Fort Collins
Science Explorer records 35 research institutions in Fort Collins, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Colorado State University, Rocky Mountain Research Station and Woodward (United States).
- Research institutions
- 35 3 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 69k ▲ 14% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 19.7% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Fort Collins?
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 Fort Collins strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Fort Collins is most concentrated in Equine, Veterinary and Small Animals (38.4× the world share in Equine).
- EquineSubfield · 40.1 works38×
- VeterinaryField · 164.5 works15×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 124.3 works13×
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 272.0 works7.7×
- Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 392.0 works6.4×
- Ecological ModelingSubfield · 38.3 works6.2×
- Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 100.8 works5.3×
- Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 91.7 works4.8×
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 Fort Collins?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Global Warming, Hydrological Modeling, Ecosystem Resilience and Data Assimilation.
- Climate Modeling
- Extreme Events
- Model Evaluation
- Hydrological Cycle
- Sediment Transport
- Mesoscale Modeling
- Population Dynamics
- Probabilistic Forecasting
- Ecosystem
- Land Use Change
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Forest Fires
- Sea Level Rise
- Soil Properties
- Data Assimilation
- Ecosystem Resilience
- Hydrological Modeling
- Invasive Species
- Sustainability
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Biodiversity
- Global Warming
- Conservation
- Resilience
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Genetic Diversity
- Boundary Layer
- Wildfire Activity
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Global Change
- Ensemble Kalman Filter
- Satellite Observations
- Convective Parameterization
- Ocean Circulation
- Genomic Analysis
- Animal Welfare
- Solar Wind
- Biological Invasions
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 Change962▲ 4.4×104 topics
- Remote Sensing301▲ 3.0×38 topics
- Epidemiology292◆ 0.92×124 topics
- Sustainability242▲ 1.24×86 topics
- Biodiversity238▲ 4.0×33 topics
- Invasive Species190▲ 5.5×21 topics
- Global Warming186▲ 5.7×14 topics
- Hydrological Modeling161▲ 8.5×5 topics
- Conservation153▲ 4.4×22 topics
- Ecosystem Resilience147▲ 12×5 topics
- Resilience131▲ 3.4×14 topics
- Data Assimilation123▲ 9.8×4 topics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions116▲ 5.3×8 topics
- Soil Properties112▲ 8.0×7 topics
- Genetic Diversity101▲ 2.8×17 topics
- Sea Level Rise99▲ 9.7×3 topics
- Boundary Layer97▲ 9.8×4 topics
- Forest Fires96▲ 27×1 topic
- Wildfire Activity96▲ 27×1 topic
- Habitat Fragmentation95▲ 5.4×5 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation95▲ 3.2×16 topics
- Land Use Change95▲ 3.9×8 topics
- Global Change95▲ 4.5×7 topics
- Ecosystem94▲ 11×4 topics
- Ensemble Kalman Filter90▲ 11×2 topics
- Probabilistic Forecasting90▲ 5.7×3 topics
- Satellite Observations88▲ 11×3 topics
- Population Dynamics84▲ 4.2×13 topics
- Convective Parameterization84▲ 19×1 topic
- Mesoscale Modeling84▲ 19×1 topic
- Ocean Circulation82▲ 7.8×3 topics
- Sediment Transport81▲ 6.3×6 topics
- Genomic Analysis81▲ 4.0×14 topics
- Hydrological Cycle79▲ 10×2 topics
- Animal Welfare77▲ 11×5 topics
- Model Evaluation76▲ 7.6×2 topics
- Solar Wind72▲ 9.7×2 topics
- Extreme Events69▲ 9.8×2 topics
- Biological Invasions60▲ 8.4×3 topics
- Climate Modeling59▲ 10×1 topic
What research is done in Fort Collins?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Fire effects on ecosystemsGlobal and Planetary Change 96 works
- 2 Meteorological Phenomena and SimulationsAtmospheric Science 84 works
- 3 Climate variability and modelsGlobal and Planetary Change 59 works
- 4 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsGlobal and Planetary Change 49 works
- 5 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesNature and Landscape Conservation 47 works
- 6 Rangeland and Wildlife ManagementEcology 44 works
- 7 Geophysics and Gravity MeasurementsOceanography 44 works
- 8 Wildlife Ecology and ConservationEcology 44 works
- 9 Veterinary Oncology ResearchPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 41 works
- 10 Veterinary Equine Medical ResearchEquine 40 works
Research output over time
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