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Ecopetrol (Colombia)

In research, Ecopetrol (Colombia) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,911 of 10,670 worldwide), Ocean Engineering (#235 of 301 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,031 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering, Geophysics and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Ocean Engineering is 61.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,819
of 22,385 · #14,575 all time
Rank in Colombia
#123
of 169
Research works
1.1k
▲ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.3k
8.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Ecopetrol (Colombia)

What is Ecopetrol (Colombia) 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 #5,911 of 10,670 3.0%167 #6697
Ocean EngineeringSubfield #235 of 301 1.3%62 #506
EngineeringField #5,031 of 5,901 1.7%107 #5102

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ecopetrol (Colombia) 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#6,697 #5,911
  2. Ocean Engineering#506 #235
  3. Engineering#5,102 #5,031
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 Ecopetrol (Colombia) work in?

In 2022-now, 85% of research at Ecopetrol (Colombia) is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (55%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (13%), Environmental Science (7%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 186 fractional works · 85.3% of its workEngineering: 120 fractional works · 54.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 70 fractional works · 32.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 25 fractional works · 11.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 9 fractional works · 3.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 28 fractional works · 12.7% of its workGeophysics: 22 fractional works · 10.2% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 14 fractional works · 6.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 11 fractional works · 4.9% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 4.2% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMetals and Alloys: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKEcopetrol(Colombia)219fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences85%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences5%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering12054.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2812.7%
    3. Environmental Science146.6%
    4. Chemistry114.9%
    5. Energy52.2%
    6. Materials Science42.1%
    7. Computer Science21.1%
    8. Physics and Astronomy10.6%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.5%
    10. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Medicine135.9%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Dentistry00.2%
    4. Nursing00.2%
    1. Social Sciences52.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities10.4%
    4. Decision Sciences10.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.4%
    6. Psychology10.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences41.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.0%
    3. Neuroscience10.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Ecopetrol (Colombia) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 61.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 70.2 works62×
  2. GeophysicsSubfield · 22.2 works29×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 27.7 works8.1×
  4. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 24.8 works6.2×
← 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: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.31× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 3.12× its world share, 11 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8.08× its world share, 28 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.36× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.65× its world share, 120 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.32× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.59× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 8.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences8.08×28 works
  2. Engineering3.65×120 works
  3. Chemistry3.12×11 works
  4. Energy2.36×5 works
  5. Environmental Science1.32×14 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.31×1 works
  7. Materials Science0.59×4 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.45×1 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.40×2 works
  10. Dentistry0.38×0 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.36×4 works
  12. Medicine0.31×13 works
  13. Nursing0.31×0 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.29×1 works
  15. Health Professions0.29×2 works
  16. Neuroscience0.19×1 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×2 works
  18. Social Sciences0.18×5 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.15×1 works
  20. Computer Science0.14×2 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.12×1 works
  22. Psychology0.11×1 works
  23. Mathematics0.04×0 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ecopetrol (Colombia)?

Ranked on the quality score, Andres R. Mora, Víctor Manuel Caballero and Jay S. Namson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ecopetrol (Colombia).

  1. 1 Andres R. Mora Colombia · #397,511 worldwide 6.2k citations · 175 works
  2. 2 Víctor Manuel Caballero Colombia · #898,768 worldwide 1.1k citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Jay S. Namson Colombia · #943,779 worldwide 1.1k citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Michel P. Aubry Colombia · #1,306,033 worldwide 2.3k citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Richard D. Zabala Colombia · #1,506,397 worldwide 839 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Vladimir Torres Colombia · #1,519,355 worldwide 1.2k citations · 36 works
  7. 7 Guillermo Rodríguez Colombia · #1,742,173 worldwide 738 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Jorge Armando Orrego-Ruiz Colombia · #1,845,328 worldwide 836 citations · 36 works
  9. 9 Eliseo Tesón Colombia · #1,981,746 worldwide 852 citations · 32 works
  10. 10 Gabriel Veloza Colombia · #2,015,658 worldwide 271 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Ecopetrol (Colombia)

What are the most cited papers from Ecopetrol (Colombia)?

The most cited paper from Ecopetrol (Colombia) is "Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity" (Carina Hoorn, Frank P. Wesselingh, Hans ter Steege et al., 2010), with 2,430 citations. Next come "Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway" (690) and "Strategies for the one-step immobilization–purification of enzymes as industrial biocatalysts" (677).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity Carina Hoorn, Frank P. Wesselingh, Hans ter Steege et al. · Science Open access 11 Nov 2010 2,430
2 Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway Camilo Montes, A. Cardona, Carlos Alberto Jaramillo et al. · Science 9 Apr 2015 690
3 Strategies for the one-step immobilization–purification of enzymes as industrial biocatalysts Oveimar Barbosa, Claudia Ortíz, Ángel Berenguer‐Murcia et al. · Biotechnology Advances 14 Mar 2015 677
4 Cenozoic Plant Diversity in the Neotropics Carlos Alberto Jaramillo, Milton J. Rueda, Germán Mora · Science 30 Mar 2006 470
5 Explosive Radiation of Malpighiales Supports a Mid‐Cretaceous Origin of Modern Tropical Rain Forests Charles C. Davis, Campbell O. Webb, Kenneth J. Wurdack et al. · The American Naturalist Open access Mar 2005 371
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ecopetrol (Colombia)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Optimization, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Fault Diagnosis, Artificial Lift Systems, Electric Submersible Pumps, Hydraulic Fracturing and Machine Learning.

▲ 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. Optimization26▲ 26×3 topics
  2. Machine Learning26▲ 3.5×13 topics
  3. Data Assimilation24▲ 68×1 topic
  4. Ensemble Kalman Filter24▲ 109×1 topic
  5. Fault Diagnosis21▲ 67×2 topics
  6. Artificial Lift Systems21▲ 347×1 topic
  7. Electric Submersible Pumps21▲ 347×1 topic
  8. Hydraulic Fracturing18▲ 78×2 topics
  9. Fracture Propagation17▲ 131×1 topic
  10. Shale Gas Reservoirs17▲ 131×1 topic
  11. Porous Media16▲ 55×2 topics
  12. Subduction15▲ 95×3 topics
  13. Surfactants15▲ 70×4 topics
  14. Nanofluids14▲ 80×2 topics
  15. Pore-scale Modeling14▲ 176×1 topic
  16. X-ray Computed Tomography14▲ 176×1 topic
  17. Tectonic Evolution14▲ 272×2 topics
  18. Andean Geodynamics13▲ 759×1 topic
  19. CO2 Sequestration13▲ 30×3 topics
  20. Caribbean Plate Boundary13▲ 759×1 topic
  21. Nanoparticles12▲ 4.5×11 topics
  22. Biodegradation9▲ 41×4 topics
  23. Vibration Analysis9▲ 15×2 topics
  24. Rheological Properties9▲ 23×2 topics
  25. Shale Gas9▲ 34×2 topics
  26. Drilling Fluids9▲ 76×1 topic
  27. Well Integrity9▲ 76×1 topic
  28. Asphaltenes8▲ 170×1 topic
  29. Petroleum8▲ 84×1 topic
  30. Pore Structure8▲ 29×2 topics
  31. Gas Permeability8▲ 37×1 topic
  32. Mudstones8▲ 48×1 topic
  33. Renewable Energy7▲ 2.2×15 topics
  34. Geophysical Imaging4▲ 37×2 topics
  35. Reactive Transport4▲ 35×2 topics
  36. Carbon Capture4▲ 40×2 topics
  37. Geological Storage4▲ 57×1 topic
  38. Mineral Carbonation4▲ 57×1 topic
  39. Full-Waveform Tomography3▲ 33×1 topic
  40. Seismic Waveform Inversion3▲ 33×1 topic

Which research topics does Ecopetrol (Colombia) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Oil and Gas Production Techniques, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis and Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques.

Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 24 fractional worksOil and Gas Production Techniques: 21 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 17 fractional worksEnhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 14 fractional worksGeological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America: 13 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engine…9Drilling and Well Engineering: 9 fractional worksPetroleum Processing and Analysis: 8 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 8 fractional worksCO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions: 4 fractional worksSeismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 3 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringMechanical EngineeringGeophysicsAnalytical Chemistry2 others

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

  1. 1 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 24 works
  2. 2 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 21 works
  3. 3 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 17 works
  4. 4 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 14 works
  5. 5 Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America Geophysics 13 works
  6. 6 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 9 works
  7. 7 Petroleum Processing and Analysis Analytical Chemistry 8 works
  8. 8 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 8 works
  9. 9 CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions Environmental Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 3 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 available37.3%not open62.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.3%domestic only68.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ecopetrol (Colombia)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher 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 Ecopetrol (Colombia) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00095% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Ecopetrol (Colombia)0.00066% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ecopetrol (Colombia) 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Ecopetrol (Colombia)4.5% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.3% in 2010.

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