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Bureau of Economic Analysis

In research, Bureau of Economic Analysis stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,990 of 10,670 worldwide), Earth and Planetary Sciences (#455 of 1,088 worldwide) and Engineering (#2,852 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Geophysics, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Ocean Engineering (Geophysics is 51.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,245
of 22,385 · #2,085 all time
Rank in United States
#831
of 3,332
Research works
1.7k
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
66k
38.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.19×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Bureau of Economic Analysis

What is Bureau of Economic Analysis known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #1,990 of 10,670 19.0%241 #1120
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #455 of 1,088 18.5%88 #265
EngineeringField #2,852 of 5,901 19.6%77 #1378

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Bureau of Economic Analysis sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#1,120 #1,990
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences#265 #455
  3. Engineering#1,378 #2,852
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Bureau of Economic Analysis work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at Bureau of Economic Analysis is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (31%), Engineering (24%), Environmental Science (14%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 293 fractional works · 80.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 112 fractional works · 30.7% of its workGeophysics: 65 fractional works · 17.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 12 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeology: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPaleontology: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOceanography: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEngineering: 89 fractional works · 24.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 26 fractional works · 7.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 25 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 22 fractional works · 6.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 50 fractional works · 13.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 21 fractional works · 5.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 5.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 15 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 63 fractional works · 17.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 37 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 28 fractional works · 7.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBureau ofEconomic Analysis365fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences17%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences11230.7%
    2. Engineering8924.3%
    3. Environmental Science5013.8%
    4. Computer Science215.8%
    5. Energy72.0%
    6. Physics and Astronomy51.4%
    7. Materials Science20.7%
    8. Chemistry20.6%
    9. Chemical Engineering20.6%
    10. Mathematics20.5%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3710.2%
    2. Social Sciences133.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting71.9%
    4. Decision Sciences41.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.3%
    6. Psychology10.2%
    1. Health Professions41.1%
    2. Medicine30.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Bureau of Economic Analysis specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Geophysics takes 51.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeophysicsSubfield · 65.2 works51×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 112.2 works20×
  3. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 25.4 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.60× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.75× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19.59× its world share, 112 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.13× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.62× its world share, 89 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.78× its world share, 50 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.63× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.04× its world share, 3 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.60× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.24× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.75× its world share, 37 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 19.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences19.59×112 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.75×37 works
  3. Environmental Science2.78×50 works
  4. Energy2.13×7 works
  5. Engineering1.62×89 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.60×2 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.24×4 works
  8. Computer Science0.75×21 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.63×5 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.60×7 works
  11. Health Professions0.40×4 works
  12. Mathematics0.39×2 works
  13. Chemistry0.36×2 works
  14. Social Sciences0.28×13 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×0 works
  16. Materials Science0.19×2 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.10×1 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×1 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×1 works
  20. Psychology0.05×0 works
  21. Medicine0.04×3 works

Who are the top researchers at Bureau of Economic Analysis?

Ranked on the quality score, Tongwei Zhang, Martin P. A. Jackson and Tim P. Dooley lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bureau of Economic Analysis.

  1. 1 Tongwei Zhang United States · #168,545 worldwide 9.5k citations · 186 works
  2. 2 Martin P. A. Jackson United States · #213,905 worldwide 11k citations · 256 works
  3. 3 Tim P. Dooley United States · #271,597 worldwide 3.8k citations · 101 works
  4. 4 Alexandros Savvaidis United States · #617,035 worldwide 3k citations · 235 works
  5. 5 Harry Rowe United States · #676,456 worldwide 6.2k citations · 200 works
  6. 6 Alexander P. Bump United States · #743,083 worldwide 798 citations · 46 works
  7. 7 Lucy ‘Tingwei’ Ko United States · #908,362 worldwide 1.1k citations · 42 works
  8. 8 Elizabeth Horne United States · #957,648 worldwide 526 citations · 44 works
  9. 9 Lorena G. Moscardelli United States · #972,664 worldwide 1.9k citations · 83 works
  10. 10 J. Steven Landefeld United States · #1,009,759 worldwide 1.4k citations · 50 works
All ranked researchers at Bureau of Economic Analysis

What are the most cited papers from Bureau of Economic Analysis?

The most cited paper from Bureau of Economic Analysis is "Morphology, Genesis, and Distribution of Nanometer-Scale Pores in Siliceous Mudstones of the Mississippian Barnett Shale" (Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel et al., 2009), with 2,793 citations. Next come "Ground water and climate change" (2,643) and "Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores" (2,571).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Morphology, Genesis, and Distribution of Nanometer-Scale Pores in Siliceous Mudstones of the Mississippian Barnett Shale Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel et al. · Journal of Sedimentary Research 30 Nov 2009 2,793
2 Ground water and climate change Richard G. Taylor et al. · Nature Climate Change Open access 23 Nov 2012 2,643
3 Spectrum of pore types and networks in mudrocks and a descriptive classification for matrix-related mudrock pores Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel et al. · AAPG Bulletin Jun 2012 2,571
4 Choosing appropriate techniques for quantifying groundwater recharge Bridget R. Scanlon, Richard W. Healy, Peter G. Cook · Hydrogeology Journal 17 Jan 2002 1,747
5 Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley Bridget R. Scanlon, Claudia C. Faunt, Laurent Longuevergne et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 29 May 2012 1,433
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Bureau of Economic Analysis?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Shale Gas, Geophysical Imaging, Inverse Problems, Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Pore Structure, Gas Permeability and Mudstones.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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
  1. Shale Gas26▲ 60×2 topics
  2. Geophysical Imaging24▲ 124×2 topics
  3. Inverse Problems23▲ 57×3 topics
  4. Climate Change23▲ 2.3×36 topics
  5. Full-Waveform Tomography23▲ 152×1 topic
  6. Pore Structure23▲ 51×2 topics
  7. Seismic Waveform Inversion23▲ 152×1 topic
  8. Gas Permeability22▲ 64×2 topics
  9. Mudstones22▲ 85×1 topic
  10. Thermal Maturity22▲ 85×1 topic
  11. Hydraulic Fracturing21▲ 55×2 topics
  12. Tectonics21▲ 47×3 topics
  13. CO2 Sequestration20▲ 28×4 topics
  14. Machine Learning20▲ 1.64×19 topics
  15. Fracture Propagation18▲ 80×1 topic
  16. Shale Gas Reservoirs18▲ 80×1 topic
  17. Tomography18▲ 27×4 topics
  18. Reactive Transport17▲ 85×2 topics
  19. Geodetic Measurements15▲ 39×2 topics
  20. Subduction15▲ 55×3 topics
  21. Renewable Energy14▲ 2.7×19 topics
  22. Seismic Noise14▲ 80×1 topic
  23. Surface Wave14▲ 80×1 topic
  24. Carbon Capture13▲ 78×1 topic
  25. Geological Storage13▲ 113×1 topic
  26. Earthquakes13▲ 61×1 topic
  27. Plate Boundaries13▲ 61×1 topic
  28. Plate Tectonics12▲ 22×3 topics
  29. Economic Growth12▲ 4.0×15 topics
  30. Data Assimilation11▲ 18×4 topics
  31. Ensemble Kalman Filter11▲ 28×2 topics
  32. Optimization10▲ 6.4×3 topics
  33. Sedimentation10▲ 51×2 topics
  34. Fluvial Systems10▲ 97×1 topic
  35. Sequence Stratigraphy10▲ 97×1 topic
  36. Uncertainty Quantification10▲ 34×1 topic
  37. Well Placement10▲ 60×1 topic
  38. Anaerobic8▲ 35×1 topic
  39. Methane Oxidation8▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Continental Margin8▲ 37×2 topics

Which research topics does Bureau of Economic Analysis publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Seismic Waves and Analysis.

Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 23 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 22 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and…18Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 18 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis14Seismic Waves and Analysis: 14 fractional worksCO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions: 13 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 13 fractional worksGeological formations an…10Geological formations and processes: 10 fractional worksReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 10 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 8 fractional worksSeismology and Earthquake Studies: 7 fractional works
GeophysicsMechanics of MaterialsMechanical EngineeringEnvironmental Engineering4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 23 works
  2. 2 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 22 works
  3. 3 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 18 works
  4. 4 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 14 works
  5. 5 CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions Environmental Engineering 13 works
  6. 6 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 13 works
  7. 7 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 10 works
  8. 8 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 10 works
  9. 9 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 8 works
  10. 10 Seismology and Earthquake Studies Artificial Intelligence 7 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available27.0%not open73.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.1%domestic only77.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Bureau of Economic Analysis's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Bureau of Economic Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Bureau of Economic Analysis0.0012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bureau of Economic Analysis 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, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Bureau of Economic Analysis15.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 31.6% in 2007.

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