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Direction Générale de la Météorologie

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Research works
102
▲ 29% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.6k
25.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Direction Générale de la Météorologie

Not ranked overall: Direction Générale de la Météorologie 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 Direction Générale de la Météorologie work in?

In 2022-now, 49% of research at Direction Générale de la Météorologie is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (22%), Medicine (17%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (12%).

Physical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 48.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 22.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 11.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 9.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 24.4% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 16.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 7.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 6.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 14.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 11.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workALL ITS WORKDirectionGénérale de la…23fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences49%Health Sciences24%Social Sciences15%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science522.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences311.7%
    3. Mathematics15.9%
    4. Engineering14.1%
    5. Computer Science13.2%
    6. Energy01.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    8. Materials Science00.3%
    1. Medicine416.7%
    2. Health Professions27.7%
    1. Social Sciences16.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance14.7%
    3. Psychology12.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting01.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.5%
    4. Neuroscience00.8%
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: 1.31× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.43× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.45× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.33× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.45× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 5.01× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 2.91× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.87× its world share, 4 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.22× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 7.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences7.45×3 works
  2. Mathematics5.01×1 works
  3. Environmental Science4.45×5 works
  4. Health Professions2.91×2 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.22×1 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.43×0 works
  7. Energy1.33×0 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.31×1 works
  9. Medicine0.87×4 works
  10. Psychology0.81×1 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.63×1 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.55×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.47×1 works
  14. Neuroscience0.45×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.41×1 works
  16. Engineering0.27×1 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.22×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Direction Générale de la Météorologie?

Ranked on the quality score, Pascal Yaka lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Direction Générale de la Météorologie.

  1. 1 Pascal Yaka Burkina Faso · #742,684 worldwide 965 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Direction Générale de la Météorologie

What are the most cited papers from Direction Générale de la Météorologie?

The most cited paper from Direction Générale de la Météorologie is "Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in western central Africa, Guinea Conakry, and Zimbabwe, 1955–2006" (Enric Aguilar, Abdoul Aziz Barry, Manola Brunet et al., 2009), with 338 citations. Next come "From accessing to assessing forecasts: an end-to-end study of participatory climate forecast dissemination in Burkina Faso (West Africa)" (224) and "Local perceptions and regional climate trends on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso" (206).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in western central Africa, Guinea Conakry, and Zimbabwe, 1955–2006 Enric Aguilar, Abdoul Aziz Barry, Manola Brunet et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 27 Jan 2009 338
2 From accessing to assessing forecasts: an end-to-end study of participatory climate forecast dissemination in Burkina Faso (West Africa) Carla Roncoli, Christine C. Jost, Paul Kirshen et al. · Climatic Change Open access 17 Jul 2008 224
3 Local perceptions and regional climate trends on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso Colin Thor West, Carla Roncoli, Frédéric Ouattara · Land Degradation and Development Open access 23 Apr 2008 206
4 Soil Dust Aerosols and Wind as Predictors of Seasonal Meningitis Incidence in Niger Carlos Pérez García‐Pando, Michelle C. Stanton, Peter John Diggle et al. · Environmental Health Perspectives Open access 17 Mar 2014 182
5 West Africa climate extremes and climate change indices Abdoul Aziz Barry et al. · International Journal of Climatology 7 Feb 2018 140
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Which keywords describe research at Direction Générale de la Météorologie?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Remote Sensing, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, COVID-19, Hydrological Cycle and Modeling.

▲ 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 17 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change4▲ 6.0×17 topics
  2. Epidemiology3▲ 3.0×11 topics
  3. Remote Sensing2▲ 7.2×11 topics
  4. Global Warming2▲ 20×5 topics
  5. COVID-192▲ 5.7×2 topics
  6. Infectious Diseases2▲ 22×2 topics
  7. Hydrological Cycle1▲ 59×2 topics
  8. Data Assimilation1▲ 34×2 topics
  9. Greenhouse Gas Emissions1▲ 20×4 topics
  10. Modeling1▲ 24×1 topic
  11. transmission dynamics1▲ 87×1 topic
  12. Convective Parameterization1▲ 90×1 topic
  13. Ensemble Kalman Filter1▲ 51×1 topic
  14. Probabilistic Forecasting1▲ 28×2 topics
  15. Public Health1▲ 3.8×5 topics
  16. Machine Learning1▲ 1.43×5 topics
  17. Hydrological Modeling1▲ 19×4 topics

Which research topics does Direction Générale de la Météorologie publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate variability and models and Healthcare Systems and Reforms.

COVID-19 epidemiological studies: 1 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 1 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 1 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Reforms: 1 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 0 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and P…0Healthcare Systems and Practices: 0 fractional worksHealth, Medicine and Society: 0 fractional worksAir Quality Monitoring and Forecasting: 0 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 0 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 0 fractional works
Modeling and SimulationAtmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeFinance2 others

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

  1. 1 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 1 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 1 works
  3. 3 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  4. 4 Healthcare Systems and Reforms Finance 1 works
  5. 5 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 0 works
  6. 6 Healthcare Systems and Practices General Health Professions 0 works
  7. 7 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 0 works
  8. 8 Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting Environmental Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Flood Risk Assessment and Management 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 available27.0%not open73.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.0%domestic only60.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Direction Générale de la Météorologie's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Direction Générale de la Météorologie as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000077% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Direction Générale de la Météorologie0.000084% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Direction Générale de la Météorologie over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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