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Deschutes Research

In research, Deschutes Research stands highest in Physical Sciences (#17,101 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 31.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#34,737
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#7,272
of 7,310
Research works
149
▼ 94% vs 2018-21
Citations
379
2.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.79×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
10%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Deschutes Research

What is Deschutes Research known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #17,101 of 17,446 8.9%121

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Deschutes Research 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 Deschutes Research work in?

In all years, 81% of research at Deschutes Research is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (29%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (28%), Engineering (16%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 121 fractional works · 80.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 44 fractional works · 29.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 32 fractional works · 21.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 42 fractional works · 27.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 27 fractional works · 18.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 8 fractional works · 5.0% of its workOceanography: 6 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 23 fractional works · 15.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 13 fractional works · 9.0% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 7.4% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDeschutesResearch149fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences6%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science4429.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4227.8%
    3. Engineering2315.6%
    4. Computer Science53.5%
    5. Physics and Astronomy53.1%
    6. Materials Science11.0%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    8. Energy00.2%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Medicine117.4%
    2. Health Professions21.5%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences42.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities21.2%
    3. Decision Sciences10.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.8%
    5. Psychology10.4%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences42.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Deschutes Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 31.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 27.1 works32×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 31.5 works30×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 41.5 works15×
← 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.

Who are the top researchers at Deschutes Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Tracy Shaw lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Deschutes Research.

  1. 1 Tracy Shaw United States · #4,955,108 worldwide 87 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Deschutes Research

What are the most cited papers from Deschutes Research?

The most cited paper from Deschutes Research is "Development and Evaluation of an Interactive Tobacco Cessation CD‐ROM Educational Program for Dental Students" (Judith S. Gordon, Herbert H. Severson, John Robert Seeley et al., 2004), with 35 citations. Next come "Development and Evaluation of a Web‐Based Training Program for Oral Health Care Providers on Secondary Prevention of Eating Disorders" (28) and "Factors for Increasing Adoption of E‐Courses Among Dental and Dental Hygiene Faculty Members" (27).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development and Evaluation of an Interactive Tobacco Cessation CD‐ROM Educational Program for Dental Students Judith S. Gordon, Herbert H. Severson, John Robert Seeley et al. · Journal of Dental Education Mar 2004 35
2 Development and Evaluation of a Web‐Based Training Program for Oral Health Care Providers on Secondary Prevention of Eating Disorders Rita DiGioacchino DeBate, Herbert H. Severson, Marissa L. Zwald et al. · Journal of Dental Education Open access Jun 2009 28
3 Factors for Increasing Adoption of E‐Courses Among Dental and Dental Hygiene Faculty Members Rita DiGioacchino DeBate, Deborah L. Cragun, Herbert H. Severson et al. · Journal of Dental Education Open access May 2011 27
4 Evaluation of a theory-driven e-learning intervention for future oral healthcare providers on secondary prevention of disordered eating behaviors Rita DiGioacchino DeBate, Herbert H. Severson, Deborah L. Cragun et al. · Health Education Research Open access 5 Apr 2013 25
5 Randomized Trial of Two e–Learning Programs for Oral Health Students on Secondary Prevention of Eating Disorders Rita DiGioacchino DeBate, Herbert H. Severson, Deborah L. Cragun et al. · Journal of Dental Education Open access 2014 16
All 34 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Deschutes Research?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Air Quality, Ecosystem Resilience, Forest Fires, Wildfire Activity, Satellite Observations and Hydrological Cycle.

▲ 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 Change39▲ 9.8×22 topics
  2. Remote Sensing33▲ 20×16 topics
  3. Air Quality14▲ 52×3 topics
  4. Ecosystem Resilience14▲ 60×3 topics
  5. Forest Fires13▲ 239×1 topic
  6. Wildfire Activity13▲ 239×1 topic
  7. Satellite Observations13▲ 74×3 topics
  8. Hydrological Cycle12▲ 77×2 topics
  9. Data Assimilation12▲ 42×4 topics
  10. Ice Nucleation10▲ 94×2 topics
  11. Climate9▲ 81×2 topics
  12. Aerosols9▲ 98×2 topics
  13. Ensemble Kalman Filter9▲ 51×2 topics
  14. Atmospheric Dust9▲ 176×1 topic
  15. Radiative Forcing9▲ 176×1 topic
  16. Probabilistic Forecasting8▲ 43×2 topics
  17. Boundary Layer8▲ 40×2 topics
  18. Convective Parameterization8▲ 82×1 topic
  19. Mesoscale Modeling8▲ 82×1 topic
  20. Sediment Transport8▲ 30×3 topics
  21. Ocean Circulation7▲ 34×3 topics
  22. Sea Level Rise6▲ 33×3 topics
  23. Global Warming6▲ 12×3 topics
  24. Aeolian Processes6▲ 168×1 topic
  25. Wind Erosion6▲ 168×1 topic
  26. Water Quality6▲ 8.8×3 topics
  27. Renewable Energy5▲ 3.6×8 topics
  28. Atmospheric Aerosols5▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Black Carbon5▲ 50×1 topic
  30. Greenhouse Gas Emissions5▲ 15×3 topics
  31. Hydrology4▲ 26×2 topics
  32. Shale Gas4▲ 22×2 topics
  33. Tropical Cyclones4▲ 47×2 topics
  34. Hydrological Modeling4▲ 14×5 topics
  35. Environmental Monitoring4▲ 8.4×3 topics
  36. Forecasting4▲ 20×2 topics
  37. Hydraulic Fracturing4▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Emissions4▲ 13×1 topic
  39. Methane4▲ 43×1 topic
  40. Particulate Matter4▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does Deschutes Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Local Economic Development and Planning, Agriculture Market Analysis Ukraine, Global Economic and Social Development and Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae.

Local Economic Developme…0Local Economic Development and Planning: 0 fractional worksAgriculture Market Analy…0Agriculture Market Analysis Ukraine: 0 fractional worksGlobal Economic and Soci…0Global Economic and Social Development: 0 fractional worksTraditional and Medicina…0Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae: 0 fractional worksAfrican Botany and Ecolo…0African Botany and Ecology Studies: 0 fractional worksAfrican Studies and Ethn…0African Studies and Ethnography: 0 fractional worksMulticulturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender: 0 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 0 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesEconomics and EconometricsBiochemistry3 others

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

  1. 1 Local Economic Development and Planning Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  2. 2 Agriculture Market Analysis Ukraine General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  3. 3 Global Economic and Social Development Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  4. 4 Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae Biochemistry 0 works
  5. 5 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 0 works
  6. 6 African Studies and Ethnography Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  8. 8 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 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 available10.4%not open89.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.5%domestic only94.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Deschutes Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 94% lower than in 2018-2021.

1990200020102020
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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 Deschutes Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000016% in 2022.

0.00050%0.0010%Deschutes Research0.0000060% in 20241990200020102020

Fractional works of Deschutes Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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