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Deltares

In research, Deltares stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,208 of 10,670 worldwide), Environmental Science (#828 of 3,334 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#442 of 1,088 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography (Earth-Surface Processes is 87.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,866
of 22,385 · #2,903 all time
Rank in Netherlands
#49
of 197
Research works
2k
▼ 21% vs 2018-21
Citations
71k
34.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.27×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
39%
world 18%
Deltares

What is Deltares 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 #2,208 of 10,670 15.0%367 #1596
Environmental ScienceField #828 of 3,334 16.0%160 #559
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #442 of 1,088 17.0%101 #447
EngineeringField #3,887 of 5,901 11.6%95 #2191

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Deltares 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#1,596 #2,208
  2. Environmental Science#559 #828
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences#447 #442
  4. Engineering#2,191 #3,887
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 Deltares work in?

In 2022-now, 88% of research at Deltares is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (41%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (24%), Engineering (21%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 437 fractional works · 88.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 201 fractional works · 40.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 64 fractional works · 12.8% of its workEcology: 45 fractional works · 9.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 25 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 25 fractional works · 5.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 17 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPollution: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 118 fractional works · 23.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 52 fractional works · 10.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 28 fractional works · 5.7% of its workOceanography: 24 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGeophysics: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 104 fractional works · 21.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 51 fractional works · 10.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 19 fractional works · 3.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 36 fractional works · 7.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 14 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 16 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSoil Science: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDeltares496fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences7%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science20140.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences11823.8%
    3. Engineering10421.1%
    4. Computer Science61.3%
    5. Materials Science20.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.4%
    7. Mathematics10.3%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.2%
    9. Energy10.1%
    10. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences234.6%
    2. Decision Sciences51.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities20.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting20.3%
    6. Psychology10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences132.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.4%
    3. Neuroscience10.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Medicine40.9%
    2. Health Professions20.4%
    3. Nursing10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Deltares specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Earth-Surface Processes takes 87.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 51.7 works88×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 63.7 works17×
  3. OceanographySubfield · 23.5 works17×
  4. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 117.8 works15×
  5. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 28.3 works13×
  6. EcologySubfield · 44.6 works11×
  7. Water Science and TechnologySubfield · 25.3 works9.9×
  8. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 24.8 works9.3×
← 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: 0.56× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15.14× its world share, 118 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.40× its world share, 104 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 8.16× its world share, 201 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.31× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 23 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 15.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.14×118 works
  2. Environmental Science8.16×201 works
  3. Engineering1.40×104 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.06×5 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.56×13 works
  6. Chemical Engineering0.54×1 works
  7. Social Sciences0.36×23 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.31×3 works
  9. Nursing0.27×1 works
  10. Mathematics0.23×1 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.18×2 works
  12. Computer Science0.16×6 works
  13. Energy0.15×1 works
  14. Health Professions0.15×2 works
  15. Materials Science0.13×2 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.13×2 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.10×2 works
  18. Neuroscience0.08×1 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.07×2 works
  20. Psychology0.07×1 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  23. Medicine0.05×4 works

Who are the top researchers at Deltares?

Ranked on the quality score, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck and Hessel Winsemius lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Deltares.

  1. 1 Marjolijn Haasnoot Netherlands · #56,011 worldwide 16k citations · 225 works
  2. 2 Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck Netherlands · #64,617 worldwide 6.4k citations · 109 works
  3. 3 Hessel Winsemius Netherlands · #106,724 worldwide 14k citations · 282 works
  4. 4 Dirk Eilander Netherlands · #132,543 worldwide 3.4k citations · 163 works
  5. 5 A. Hooijer Netherlands · #142,494 worldwide 4.8k citations · 59 works
  6. 6 A. Dick Vethaak Netherlands · #155,738 worldwide 20k citations · 185 works
  7. 7 Jaap Schellekens Netherlands · #248,542 worldwide 6.7k citations · 144 works
  8. 8 Ronald Vernimmen Netherlands · #254,309 worldwide 2.6k citations · 43 works
  9. 9 Jaap Kwadijk Netherlands · #266,232 worldwide 6.2k citations · 81 works
  10. 10 Ap R. Van Dongeren Netherlands · #284,111 worldwide 8.4k citations · 216 works
All ranked researchers at Deltares

What are the most cited papers from Deltares?

The most cited paper from Deltares is "Climate Change Will Affect the Asian Water Towers" (Walter Willem Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens, 2010), with 4,255 citations. Next come "Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood" (3,875) and "EURO-CORDEX: new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research" (2,868).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Climate Change Will Affect the Asian Water Towers Walter Willem Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens · Science Open access 10 Jun 2010 4,255
2 Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood Heather A. Leslie, Martin J. M. van Velzen, Sicco H. Brandsma et al. · Environment International Open access 24 Mar 2022 3,875
3 EURO-CORDEX: new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research Daniela Jacob et al. · Regional Environmental Change Open access 22 Jul 2013 2,868
4 Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016 Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Louis Giglio et al. · Earth system science data Open access 12 Sep 2017 2,612
5 Global depletion of groundwater resources Yoshihide Wada, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Cheryl M. van Kempen et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Open access Oct 2010 2,156
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Deltares?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Sediment Transport, Sea-Level Rise, Hydrological Modeling, Wave Modeling, Global Warming and Climate Change Impacts.

▲ 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 Change167▲ 12×69 topics
  2. Remote Sensing90▲ 15×28 topics
  3. Sediment Transport69▲ 87×6 topics
  4. Sea-Level Rise63▲ 109×5 topics
  5. Hydrological Modeling54▲ 46×5 topics
  6. Wave Modeling39▲ 153×2 topics
  7. Global Warming37▲ 17×11 topics
  8. Climate Change Impacts35▲ 59×4 topics
  9. Coastal Dynamics34▲ 237×1 topic
  10. Shoreline Change34▲ 237×1 topic
  11. Ecosystem Services33▲ 17×9 topics
  12. Water Resources32▲ 27×9 topics
  13. Risk Perception31▲ 24×3 topics
  14. Flood Risk31▲ 77×2 topics
  15. Disaster Management31▲ 40×2 topics
  16. Flood Inundation Modeling31▲ 80×1 topic
  17. Satellite Imagery31▲ 47×3 topics
  18. Surface Water Mapping31▲ 80×1 topic
  19. Sustainability30▲ 2.5×33 topics
  20. Global Carbon Budget29▲ 79×2 topics
  21. Land Use Change27▲ 18×7 topics
  22. Coastal Protection27▲ 79×2 topics
  23. Carbon Sequestration25▲ 69×1 topic
  24. Mangrove Forests25▲ 135×1 topic
  25. Tropical Cyclones20▲ 72×2 topics
  26. Model Evaluation19▲ 30×2 topics
  27. Sea Level Rise19▲ 30×3 topics
  28. Global Hydrology18▲ 52×1 topic
  29. Uncertainty Assessment18▲ 52×1 topic
  30. Vulnerability16▲ 14×7 topics
  31. Hurricanes15▲ 88×1 topic
  32. Storm Surge15▲ 88×1 topic
  33. Data Assimilation14▲ 17×4 topics
  34. Water Quality14▲ 6.8×12 topics
  35. Climate Change Impact13▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Sedimentation13▲ 46×2 topics
  37. Ocean Circulation13▲ 18×3 topics
  38. Climate Change Adaptation12▲ 14×2 topics
  39. River Restoration11▲ 52×2 topics
  40. Social-Ecological Systems11▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does Deltares publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Coastal and Marine Dynamics: 34 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 31 fractional worksCoastal wetland ecosystem dynamics: 25 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 18 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 15 fractional worksGeological formations an…11Geological formations and processes: 11 fractional worksHydrology and Sediment Transport Processes: 11 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 8 fractional worksWater resources management and optimization: 7 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics: 7 fractional works
Earth-Surface ProcessesGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcologyWater Science and Technology3 others

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

  1. 1 Coastal and Marine Dynamics Earth-Surface Processes 34 works
  2. 2 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 31 works
  3. 3 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 25 works
  4. 4 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 18 works
  5. 5 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 15 works
  6. 6 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 11 works
  7. 7 Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes Ecology 11 works
  8. 8 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 8 works
  9. 9 Water resources management and optimization Ocean Engineering 7 works
  10. 10 Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics Civil and Structural Engineering 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 available67.2%not open32.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.3%domestic only60.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Deltares's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower 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 Deltares as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Deltares0.0016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Deltares 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%Deltares13.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.1% in 2013.

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