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Cold Climate Housing Research Center

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Research works
6
▼ 87% vs 2018-21
Citations
58
9.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Cold Climate Housing Research Center

Not ranked overall: Cold Climate Housing Research Center is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Cold Climate Housing Research Center work in?

In all years, 91% of research at Cold Climate Housing Research Center is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (53%), Environmental Science (21%), Energy (9%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 90.9% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 53.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 24.9% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 15.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 10.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 20.6% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 9.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 9.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 7.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 7.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKCold ClimateHousing Research…6fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences5%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 3 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering353.2%
    2. Environmental Science120.6%
    3. Energy19.4%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences07.7%
    1. Social Sciences04.6%
    1. Health Professions01.7%
    2. Dentistry01.2%
    3. Nursing01.2%
    4. Medicine00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Who are the top researchers at Cold Climate Housing Research Center?

Ranked on the quality score, USDOE The Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (IE) and Jim Fowler lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cold Climate Housing Research Center.

  1. 1 USDOE The Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (IE) United States · #2,825,103 worldwide 7 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 Jim Fowler United States · #3,832,763 worldwide 0 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Cold Climate Housing Research Center

What are the most cited papers from Cold Climate Housing Research Center?

The most cited paper from Cold Climate Housing Research Center is "The search for an alternative to piped water and sewer systems in the Alaskan Arctic" (K. Hickel, Aaron D. Dotson, Timothy K. Thomas et al., 2017), with 49 citations. Next come "Climate-Sensitive Decisions and Time Frames: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Information Pathways in the Carolinas" (30) and "Conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to Determine Carbon Payback: A Case Study of a Highly Energy-Efficient House in Rural Alaska" (21).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The search for an alternative to piped water and sewer systems in the Alaskan Arctic K. Hickel, Aaron D. Dotson, Timothy K. Thomas et al. · Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28 Mar 2017 49
2 Climate-Sensitive Decisions and Time Frames: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Information Pathways in the Carolinas Kirsten Lackstrom, Nathan P. Kettle, Benjamin Haywood et al. · Weather Climate and Society Open access 11 Nov 2013 30
3 Conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to Determine Carbon Payback: A Case Study of a Highly Energy-Efficient House in Rural Alaska Yasmeen Hossain, Tom Marsik · Energies Open access 8 May 2019 21
4 Exterior insulation envelope retrofits in cold climates: Implications for moisture control Colin Craven, Robbin Garber-Slaght · Science and Technology for the Built Environment 9 May 2014 15
5 Empirical Study of the Effect of Thermal Loading on the Heating Efficiency of Variable-Speed Air Source Heat Pumps Tom Marsik, Vanessa Stevens, Robbin Garber-Slaght et al. · Sustainability Open access 18 Jan 2023 12
All 15 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Cold Climate Housing Research Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications, Adsorption and Cooling Systems and Indigenous Studies and Ecology.

Building Energy and Comf…0Building Energy and Comfort Optimization: 0 fractional worksGeothermal Energy System…0Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications: 0 fractional worksAdsorption and Cooling S…0Adsorption and Cooling Systems: 0 fractional works
Building and ConstructionRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentMechanical Engineering

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

  1. 1 Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Building and Construction 0 works
  2. 2 Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 0 works
  3. 3 Adsorption and Cooling Systems Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 Zoonotic diseases and public health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  6. 6 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 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 available21.6%not open78.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.7%domestic only92.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Cold Climate Housing Research Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 87% lower than in 2018-2021.

20152020
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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 Cold Climate Housing Research Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000061% in 2023.

0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Cold Climate Housing Research Center0.0000013% in 20242020

Fractional works of Cold Climate Housing Research Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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