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Climate Centre

In research, Climate Centre stands highest in Physical Sciences (#9,042 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 31.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,049
of 22,385 · #20,139 all time
Rank in Netherlands
#141
of 197
Research works
433
▲ 115% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.5k
22.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
49%
world 18%
Climate Centre

What is Climate Centre 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 #9,042 of 10,670 9.0%69 #11677

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Climate Centre 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 fields of science does Climate Centre work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research at Climate Centre is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (36%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (17%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 105 fractional works · 68.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 56 fractional works · 36.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 29 fractional works · 18.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 26 fractional works · 17.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 21 fractional works · 13.7% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 7.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 3.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 19.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 12.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 7.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 15 fractional works · 9.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 8.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKClimate Centre154fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences68%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences19%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science5636.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2617.1%
    3. Engineering117.0%
    4. Energy53.4%
    5. Computer Science31.9%
    6. Materials Science10.7%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.5%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.5%
    9. Chemistry10.4%
    10. Mathematics00.3%
    1. Social Sciences1912.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance74.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting21.4%
    4. Decision Sciences10.9%
    5. Psychology10.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences138.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.8%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Medicine32.0%
    2. Health Professions10.8%
    3. Nursing00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Climate Centre specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 31.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 21.1 works31×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 28.9 works25×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 26.4 works11×
  4. Environmental ScienceField · 56.1 works7.3×
← 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: 1.83× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.36× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.24× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10.92× its world share, 26 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.67× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.47× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.33× its world share, 56 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.12× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.96× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 10.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.92×26 works
  2. Environmental Science7.33×56 works
  3. Energy3.67×5 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.12×7 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.83×13 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.36×1 works
  7. Social Sciences0.96×19 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.95×1 works
  9. Engineering0.47×11 works
  10. Nursing0.47×0 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.42×2 works
  12. Health Professions0.30×1 works
  13. Computer Science0.24×3 works
  14. Chemistry0.23×1 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.22×1 works
  16. Mathematics0.21×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.20×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.16×1 works
  19. Psychology0.13×1 works
  20. Medicine0.10×3 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.07×0 works
  22. Neuroscience0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Climate Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, Maarten van Aalst, Erin Coughlan de Perez and Roop K. Singh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Climate Centre.

  1. 1 Maarten van Aalst Netherlands · #88,099 worldwide 11k citations · 152 works
  2. 2 Erin Coughlan de Perez Netherlands · #154,340 worldwide 5.1k citations · 138 works
  3. 3 Roop K. Singh Netherlands · #178,842 worldwide 3.9k citations · 45 works
  4. 4 Julie Arrighi Netherlands · #358,588 worldwide 3.3k citations · 61 works
  5. 5 Dorothy Heinrich Netherlands · #549,564 worldwide 525 citations · 33 works
  6. 6 Cecilia Costella Netherlands · #1,071,029 worldwide 572 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Catalina Jaime Netherlands · #1,335,904 worldwide 274 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Meghan Bailey Netherlands · #1,386,688 worldwide 353 citations · 40 works
  9. 9 Bettina Koelle Netherlands · #1,556,586 worldwide 450 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Juan Bazo Netherlands · #1,758,429 worldwide 1.1k citations · 53 works
All ranked researchers at Climate Centre

What are the most cited papers from Climate Centre?

The most cited paper from Climate Centre is "The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation" (A. J. Illingworth et al., 2014), with 953 citations. Next come "Determinants of Risk: Exposure and Vulnerability" (877) and "The Effect of Orographically Excited Gravity Wave Drag on the General Circulation of the Lower Stratosphere and Troposphere" (865).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation A. J. Illingworth et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access 19 Dec 2014 953
2 Determinants of Risk: Exposure and Vulnerability Omar Dario Cardona, Maarten van Aalst, Jörn Birkmann et al. · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapterOpen access 28 May 2012 877
3 The Effect of Orographically Excited Gravity Wave Drag on the General Circulation of the Lower Stratosphere and Troposphere N. A. McFarlane · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Jul 1987 865
4 The Drought Monitor Mark D. Svoboda, Doug LeComte, Mike Hayes et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access Aug 2002 837
5 The impacts of climate change on the risk of natural disasters Maarten van Aalst · Disasters Mar 2006 827
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Climate Centre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Remote Sensing, Vulnerability, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Ocean Circulation.

▲ 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. Climate Change57▲ 14×65 topics
  2. Global Warming26▲ 40×11 topics
  3. Sustainability16▲ 4.4×35 topics
  4. Remote Sensing16▲ 8.6×19 topics
  5. Renewable Energy15▲ 6.5×28 topics
  6. Vulnerability14▲ 40×7 topics
  7. Greenhouse Gas Emissions12▲ 29×7 topics
  8. Ocean Circulation11▲ 52×3 topics
  9. Hydrological Cycle10▲ 66×2 topics
  10. Extreme Events10▲ 68×2 topics
  11. Climate Modeling9▲ 77×1 topic
  12. Precipitation Extremes9▲ 77×1 topic
  13. Environmental Impact8▲ 3.2×24 topics
  14. Food Security8▲ 9.4×11 topics
  15. Hydrological Modeling7▲ 20×5 topics
  16. Resilience7▲ 9.2×4 topics
  17. Data Assimilation6▲ 26×3 topics
  18. Air Quality6▲ 22×4 topics
  19. Mortality6▲ 7.3×3 topics
  20. Adaptation6▲ 13×5 topics
  21. Agriculture6▲ 10×6 topics
  22. Climate Change Adaptation6▲ 22×3 topics
  23. Sea Level Rise6▲ 29×3 topics
  24. Boundary Layer6▲ 29×2 topics
  25. Probabilistic Forecasting5▲ 18×2 topics
  26. Risk Perception5▲ 13×3 topics
  27. Convective Parameterization5▲ 58×1 topic
  28. Ensemble Kalman Filter5▲ 32×1 topic
  29. Drought4▲ 29×3 topics
  30. Flood Risk4▲ 36×2 topics
  31. Disaster Management4▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Human Health4▲ 16×2 topics
  33. Infectious Diseases4▲ 8.0×3 topics
  34. Satellite Imagery4▲ 20×2 topics
  35. Water Quality4▲ 6.6×13 topics
  36. Evapotranspiration4▲ 32×2 topics
  37. Flood Inundation Modeling4▲ 34×1 topic
  38. Surface Water Mapping4▲ 34×1 topic
  39. Heat Waves4▲ 40×1 topic
  40. Temperature4▲ 23×1 topic

Which research topics does Climate Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Climate Change and Health Impacts.

Climate variability and …9Climate variability and models: 9 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 5 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 4 fractional worksClimate Change and Health Impacts: 4 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 3 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 3 fractional worksSustainability and Clima…3Sustainability and Climate Change Governance: 3 fractional worksClimate change impacts o…3Climate change impacts on agriculture: 3 fractional worksDisaster Management and …3Disaster Management and Resilience: 3 fractional worksClimate Change, Adaptati…3Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration: 3 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics1 others

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 9 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 5 works
  3. 3 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  4. 4 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 works
  5. 5 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 3 works
  6. 6 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 3 works
  7. 7 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  8. 8 Climate change impacts on agriculture Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 works
  9. 9 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  10. 10 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration Sociology and Political Science 3 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 available52.1%not open47.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors48.9%domestic only51.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Climate Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 115% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Climate Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00046% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Climate Centre0.00077% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Climate Centre 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 counting10%20%30%Climate Centre10.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.7% in 2012.

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