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Descartes Labs (United States)

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Research works
49
▼ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
1k
20.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Descartes Labs (United States)

Not ranked overall: Descartes Labs (United States) 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 Descartes Labs (United States) work in?

In all years, 68% of research at Descartes Labs (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (24%), Engineering (20%), Computer Science (12%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 33 fractional works · 68.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 23.8% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 19.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 5.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 11.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCeramics and Composites: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 17.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 10.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 11.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.8% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKDescartes Labs(United States)49fractional works, all years
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences68%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences18%

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 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1223.8%
    2. Engineering1019.7%
    3. Computer Science611.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences25.1%
    5. Mathematics12.7%
    6. Physics and Astronomy12.4%
    7. Materials Science11.4%
    8. Energy00.8%
    9. Chemistry00.7%
    1. Social Sciences510.5%
    2. Psychology12.0%
    3. Decision Sciences11.6%
    4. Arts and Humanities11.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting01.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences47.8%
    2. Neuroscience12.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    1. Medicine12.5%
    2. Dentistry00.4%
    3. Health Professions00.2%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 2.63× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.65× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.12× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.79× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.05× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.48× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 3.17× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.89× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.66× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.15× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.32× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 6.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences6.12×1 works
  2. Environmental Science3.48×2 works
  3. Dentistry3.17×0 works
  4. Energy2.79×0 works
  5. Neuroscience2.63×1 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.66×0 works
  7. Computer Science1.65×2 works
  8. Social Sciences1.32×2 works
  9. Psychology1.15×0 works
  10. Engineering1.05×2 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.89×0 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.60×0 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.53×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.50×0 works
  15. Medicine0.31×1 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Descartes Labs (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Samuel W. Skillman and Ryan Keisler lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Descartes Labs (United States).

  1. 1 Samuel W. Skillman United States · #1,411,521 worldwide 2.2k citations · 50 works
  2. 2 Ryan Keisler United States · #4,618,445 worldwide 105 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Descartes Labs (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Descartes Labs (United States)?

The most cited paper from Descartes Labs (United States) is "Deep learning based multi-temporal crop classification" (Liheng Zhong, Lina Hu, Hang Zhou, 2018), with 1,031 citations. Next come "EULAR recommendations for the management of knee osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT)" (590) and "A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units" (487).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Deep learning based multi-temporal crop classification Liheng Zhong, Lina Hu, Hang Zhou · Remote Sensing of Environment 3 Dec 2018 1,031
2 EULAR recommendations for the management of knee osteoarthritis: report of a task force of the Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT) Adrian Pendleton et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access Dec 2000 590
3 A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units Lucas Kruitwagen, K. T. Story, Jürgen Friedrich et al. · Nature 27 Oct 2021 487
4 Compressed Sensing Recovery via Nonconvex Shrinkage Penalties Joseph Woodworth, Rick Chartr, Senior Member Preprint 9 Jan 2016 195
5 Flood Size Increases Nonlinearly Across the Western United States in Response to Lower Snow‐Precipitation Ratios Frances V. Davenport, Julio E. Herrera-Estrada, Marshall Burke et al. · Water Resources Research Open access 21 Dec 2019 142
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Descartes Labs (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, Biomass Estimation, Climate, Global Change, Deep Learning, Phenology and Vegetation Monitoring.

▲ 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. Remote Sensing12▲ 21×14 topics
  2. Machine Learning10▲ 9.4×11 topics
  3. Biomass Estimation6▲ 110×3 topics
  4. Deep Learning6▲ 5.3×9 topics
  5. Climate5▲ 135×2 topics
  6. Global Change5▲ 32×2 topics
  7. Phenology4▲ 226×1 topic
  8. Vegetation Monitoring4▲ 226×1 topic
  9. Climate Change4▲ 3.0×19 topics
  10. Support Vector Machines3▲ 22×3 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence3▲ 6.9×6 topics
  12. Big Data3▲ 9.6×6 topics
  13. Hyperspectral2▲ 85×2 topics
  14. SAR Interferometry2▲ 258×1 topic
  15. Surface Deformation Monitoring2▲ 258×1 topic
  16. Classification2▲ 12×1 topic
  17. Image Analysis2▲ 66×1 topic
  18. Sustainability2▲ 2.5×12 topics
  19. Ethics2▲ 7.8×2 topics
  20. Hyperspectral Imaging2▲ 12×4 topics
  21. Public Policy2▲ 8.1×4 topics
  22. Surveillance2▲ 21×2 topics
  23. Aboveground Biomass2▲ 43×2 topics
  24. Biodiversity2▲ 4.1×5 topics
  25. Forest Carbon Stocks1▲ 74×1 topic
  26. Land Use Change1▲ 9.5×4 topics
  27. Lidar Remote Sensing1▲ 74×1 topic
  28. Algorithmic Bias1▲ 103×1 topic
  29. Fairness1▲ 52×1 topic
  30. Hydrological Modeling1▲ 13×4 topics
  31. Image Processing1▲ 8.2×2 topics
  32. Wireless Sensor Networks1▲ 6.8×2 topics
  33. Convolutional Neural Networks1▲ 5.7×2 topics
  34. Environmental Monitoring1▲ 7.9×2 topics
  35. Economic Analysis1▲ 18×2 topics
  36. Plant Disease Detection1▲ 63×1 topic
  37. Sea Level Rise1▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Smart Farming1▲ 58×1 topic
  39. Water Resources1▲ 10×3 topics
  40. Workflow Management1▲ 23×2 topics

Which research topics does Descartes Labs (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Cryospheric studies and observations and Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques.

Ethics and Social Impact…1Ethics and Social Impacts of AI: 1 fractional worksSynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques: 1 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 1 fractional worksAdvanced SAR Imaging Techniques: 1 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 1 fractional worksNeuroethics, Human Enhan…0Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainability and Education: 0 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 0 fractional worksSoil Moisture and Remote Sensing: 0 fractional worksAcademic Research in Diverse Fields: 0 fractional works
Safety ResearchAerospace EngineeringAtmospheric ScienceHealth Informatics4 others

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

  1. 1 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 1 works
  2. 2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 1 works
  4. 4 Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  5. 5 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 1 works
  6. 6 Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  7. 7 Environmental Sustainability and Education Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  8. 8 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 0 works
  9. 9 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Academic Research in Diverse Fields Education 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 available57.8%not open42.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.0%domestic only80.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Descartes Labs (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Descartes Labs (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000033% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Descartes Labs (United States)0.000016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Descartes Labs (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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