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Colorado Water Science Center

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Research works
32
▲ 27% vs 2013–17
Citations
944
29.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
51%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Colorado Water Science Center is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12.78× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 12.75× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMedicineNursing: 1.03× its world share, 0 worksNursing1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 12.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Colorado Water Science Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Water Quality, Remote Sensing, Hydrological Modeling, Hydrology, Sediment Transport, Water Resources and Model Evaluation.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 Change13▲ 16×25 topics
  2. Water Quality7▲ 49×8 topics
  3. Remote Sensing5▲ 13×9 topics
  4. Hydrological Modeling4▲ 57×4 topics
  5. Hydrology3▲ 88×4 topics
  6. Sediment Transport3▲ 60×3 topics
  7. Model Evaluation3▲ 85×2 topics
  8. Water Resources3▲ 42×3 topics
  9. Groundwater3▲ 107×3 topics
  10. Land Use Change3▲ 31×2 topics
  11. Global Hydrology3▲ 145×1 topic
  12. Uncertainty Assessment3▲ 145×1 topic
  13. Environmental Impact2▲ 6.0×10 topics
  14. Eutrophication2▲ 53×3 topics
  15. Glacier2▲ 132×1 topic
  16. Water Availability2▲ 132×1 topic
  17. Hyporheic Zone2▲ 185×1 topic
  18. Nutrient Cycling2▲ 73×1 topic
  19. Isotopes2▲ 126×1 topic
  20. Precipitation2▲ 112×2 topics
  21. Shale Gas2▲ 40×2 topics
  22. Stable2▲ 184×1 topic
  23. Toxicity2▲ 12×6 topics
  24. Emissions2▲ 24×2 topics
  25. Groundwater Flow2▲ 128×1 topic
  26. Invasive Species2▲ 8.2×4 topics
  27. Transport Modeling2▲ 128×1 topic
  28. Remediation1▲ 61×2 topics
  29. Satellite Observations1▲ 38×2 topics
  30. Atmospheric1▲ 71×1 topic
  31. Ecosystem Resilience1▲ 28×3 topics
  32. Freshwater Biodiversity1▲ 49×2 topics
  33. Methane1▲ 71×1 topic
  34. Microbial Communities1▲ 12×2 topics
  35. Environmental Impacts1▲ 18×4 topics
  36. Global Warming1▲ 10×4 topics
  37. Habitat Fragmentation1▲ 13×2 topics
  38. Methane Emissions1▲ 75×2 topics
  39. Monitoring1▲ 30×2 topics
  40. Arctic1▲ 34×2 topics

Which research topics does Colorado Water Science Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Groundwater flow and contamination studies and Fire effects on ecosystems.

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 1 fractional worksSoil and Water Nutrient Dynamics: 1 fractional worksGroundwater flow and con…1Groundwater flow and contamination studies: 1 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems0Fire effects on ecosystems: 0 fractional worksMine drainage and remediation techniques: 0 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 0 fractional worksGroundwater and Isotope …0Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry: 0 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 0 fractional worksTailings Management and Properties: 0 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 0 fractional works
Water Science and TechnologyEnvironmental ChemistryEnvironmental EngineeringGlobal and Planetary Change4 others

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

  1. 1 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 1 works
  2. 2 Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 1 works
  3. 3 Groundwater flow and contamination studies Environmental Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  5. 5 Mine drainage and remediation techniques Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  6. 6 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 0 works
  7. 7 Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry Geochemistry and Petrology 0 works
  8. 8 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  9. 9 Tailings Management and Properties Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 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 available51.1%not open48.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.5%domestic only88.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Colorado Water Science Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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.

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