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Geological Survey of Namibia

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Research works
107
▼ 25% vs 2013–17
Citations
3.4k
31.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
26%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Geological Survey of Namibia is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 1.17× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 36.38× its world share, 9 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.24× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.44× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.10× 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, 36.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Geological Survey of Namibia?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Tectonics, Plate Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon, Remote Sensing, Geological Mapping, Support Vector Machines and Compositional Data Analysis.

▲ 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. Tectonics21▲ 115×3 topics
  2. Plate Tectonics20▲ 83×3 topics
  3. Geochronology12▲ 112×1 topic
  4. Zircon12▲ 112×1 topic
  5. Remote Sensing11▲ 9.4×10 topics
  6. Climate Change11▲ 3.8×25 topics
  7. Machine Learning10▲ 4.2×5 topics
  8. Geological Mapping9▲ 85×2 topics
  9. Support Vector Machines9▲ 28×2 topics
  10. Compositional Data Analysis8▲ 105×1 topic
  11. Mineral Prospectivity8▲ 105×1 topic
  12. Continental Margin7▲ 98×2 topics
  13. Crustal Structure7▲ 98×2 topics
  14. Paleoproductivity6▲ 146×1 topic
  15. Paleoredox6▲ 146×1 topic
  16. Sedimentation6▲ 75×2 topics
  17. Fluvial Systems6▲ 128×1 topic
  18. Sequence Stratigraphy6▲ 128×1 topic
  19. Holocene5▲ 29×3 topics
  20. Tomography5▲ 17×2 topics
  21. Sea Level5▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Glacial Cycles4▲ 38×1 topic
  23. Paleoclimatology4▲ 33×1 topic
  24. Cenozoic Evolution4▲ 96×1 topic
  25. Rifting4▲ 96×1 topic
  26. Crystal Structure Prediction4▲ 44×1 topic
  27. Mantle Dynamics4▲ 44×1 topic
  28. Biogeography4▲ 10×5 topics
  29. Molecular Phylogeny4▲ 17×5 topics
  30. Invasive Species4▲ 5.7×9 topics
  31. Subduction4▲ 33×2 topics
  32. Geodetic Measurements3▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Environmental Impacts3▲ 14×4 topics
  34. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 7.8×3 topics
  35. Cretaceous3▲ 120×2 topics
  36. Earthquakes3▲ 37×1 topic
  37. Plate Boundaries3▲ 37×1 topic
  38. Arctic3▲ 27×1 topic
  39. geology3▲ 102×1 topic
  40. Evolution3▲ 9.1×3 topics

Which research topics does Geological Survey of Namibia publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Evolution and Paleontology Studies: 1 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 1 fractional worksGeological formations an…1Geological formations and processes: 1 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratig…1Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 1 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 1 fractional worksPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 1 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologi…1Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 1 fractional worksMisinformation and Its Impacts: 0 fractional worksPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 0 fractional works
PaleontologyAtmospheric ScienceEarth-Surface ProcessesGeophysics4 others

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

  1. 1 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 1 works
  2. 2 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  3. 3 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 1 works
  4. 4 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 1 works
  5. 5 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 1 works
  6. 6 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 1 works
  7. 7 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  8. 8 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Anthropology 0 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 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 available26.3%not open73.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors56.2%domestic only43.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Geological Survey of Namibia's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 25% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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