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Hebei Meteorological Bureau

In research, Hebei Meteorological Bureau stands highest in Physical Sciences (#8,588 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 56.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,844
of 22,385 · #19,969 all time
Rank in China
#1,997
of 2,481
Research works
723
▲ 61% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.5k
4.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Hebei Meteorological Bureau

What is Hebei Meteorological Bureau 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 #8,588 of 10,670 7.0%101 #10754

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hebei Meteorological Bureau 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 Hebei Meteorological Bureau work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at Hebei Meteorological Bureau is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (37%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (29%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 129 fractional works · 80.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 60 fractional works · 37.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 32 fractional works · 20.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 3.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 47 fractional works · 29.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 40 fractional works · 24.9% of its workOceanography: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 7.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 5.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 17 fractional works · 10.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHebeiMeteorological…159fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences2%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science6037.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4729.2%
    3. Engineering117.0%
    4. Computer Science85.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.9%
    6. Materials Science10.6%
    7. Energy10.4%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences137.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.7%
    3. Neuroscience10.9%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    1. Medicine95.6%
    2. Health Professions10.3%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Social Sciences31.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    3. Decision Sciences00.2%
    4. Psychology00.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hebei Meteorological Bureau specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 56.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 39.8 works56×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 32.5 works27×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 46.6 works19×
  4. Environmental ScienceField · 59.6 works7.5×
← 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: 1.66× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.31× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.53× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.67× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18.62× its world share, 47 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.46× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.53× its world share, 60 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 18.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences18.62×47 works
  2. Environmental Science7.53×60 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.66×13 works
  4. Computer Science0.67×8 works
  5. Neuroscience0.53×1 works
  6. Energy0.46×1 works
  7. Engineering0.46×11 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.40×1 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.40×1 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.31×3 works
  11. Medicine0.29×9 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.23×0 works
  13. Materials Science0.17×1 works
  14. Nursing0.14×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.14×3 works
  16. Health Professions0.12×0 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.12×0 works
  18. Chemistry0.04×0 works
  19. Psychology0.03×0 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hebei Meteorological Bureau?

Ranked on the quality score, Tao Bian, Yiguo Xu and Yuanhua Li lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hebei Meteorological Bureau.

  1. 1 Tao Bian China · #2,393,195 worldwide 332 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 Yiguo Xu China · #3,227,435 worldwide 126 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Yuanhua Li China · #3,619,438 worldwide 117 citations · 34 works
  4. 4 Guiqin Fu China · #4,143,959 worldwide 28 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Xu Hongli China · #4,419,830 worldwide 1 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Shi Lixin China · #4,586,429 worldwide 179 citations · 37 works
  7. 7 Wu Bin China · #4,825,057 worldwide 24 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Qi Gao China · #5,199,504 worldwide 210 citations · 58 works
  9. 9 Yaqin Yaqin China · #5,859,332 worldwide 155 citations · 62 works
All ranked researchers at Hebei Meteorological Bureau

What are the most cited papers from Hebei Meteorological Bureau?

The most cited paper from Hebei Meteorological Bureau is "Impact of meteorological factors on the COVID-19 transmission: A multi-city study in China" (Jiangtao Liu, Ji Zhou, Jinxi Yao et al., 2020), with 580 citations. Next come "Urbanization Effects on Observed Surface Air Temperature Trends in North China" (464) and "Characteristics of concentrations and chemical compositions for PM 2.5 in the region of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, China" (462).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Impact of meteorological factors on the COVID-19 transmission: A multi-city study in China Jiangtao Liu, Ji Zhou, Jinxi Yao et al. · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 9 Apr 2020 580
2 Urbanization Effects on Observed Surface Air Temperature Trends in North China Guoyu Ren, Yaqing Zhou, Ziying Chu et al. · Journal of Climate Open access 15 Mar 2008 464
3 Characteristics of concentrations and chemical compositions for PM 2.5 in the region of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, China Pusheng Zhao, Fan Dong, Di He et al. · Atmospheric chemistry and physics Open access 6 May 2013 462
4 The flexible global ocean-atmosphere-land system model, Grid-point Version 2: FGOALS-g2 Lijuan Li et al. · Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 16 Apr 2013 301
5 The Southern China Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (SCMREX) Qilin Wan et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access 12 Sep 2016 225
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hebei Meteorological Bureau?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Global Warming, Hydrological Cycle, Data Assimilation, Probabilistic Forecasting, Boundary Layer and Ocean Circulation.

▲ 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. Climate Change53▲ 12×49 topics
  2. Remote Sensing32▲ 16×23 topics
  3. Global Warming23▲ 34×10 topics
  4. Hydrological Cycle17▲ 106×2 topics
  5. Data Assimilation17▲ 65×3 topics
  6. Probabilistic Forecasting16▲ 52×3 topics
  7. Boundary Layer15▲ 76×2 topics
  8. Ocean Circulation15▲ 68×3 topics
  9. Convective Parameterization14▲ 154×1 topic
  10. Ensemble Kalman Filter14▲ 86×1 topic
  11. Extreme Events14▲ 92×2 topics
  12. Hydrological Modeling13▲ 35×5 topics
  13. Greenhouse Gas Emissions13▲ 30×4 topics
  14. Climate Modeling13▲ 107×1 topic
  15. Precipitation Extremes13▲ 107×1 topic
  16. Air Quality11▲ 35×4 topics
  17. Land Use Change9▲ 18×6 topics
  18. Satellite Observations8▲ 50×3 topics
  19. Sea Level Rise8▲ 40×3 topics
  20. Climate7▲ 48×2 topics
  21. Urban Heat Island6▲ 44×2 topics
  22. Validation6▲ 44×2 topics
  23. Precipitation6▲ 72×2 topics
  24. Hydrology6▲ 27×4 topics
  25. Estimation5▲ 78×2 topics
  26. Spatial Interpolation5▲ 75×2 topics
  27. Water Resources5▲ 13×7 topics
  28. Rainfall5▲ 152×1 topic
  29. Satellite5▲ 152×1 topic
  30. Satellite Imagery5▲ 23×3 topics
  31. Tropical Cyclones5▲ 53×2 topics
  32. Atmospheric Aerosols5▲ 53×1 topic
  33. Black Carbon5▲ 53×1 topic
  34. Chemical Composition5▲ 32×2 topics
  35. Hyperspectral Imaging5▲ 11×4 topics
  36. Aerosols4▲ 41×1 topic
  37. Atmospheric Dust4▲ 105×1 topic
  38. Disaster Management4▲ 18×2 topics
  39. Drought4▲ 28×3 topics
  40. Evapotranspiration4▲ 33×2 topics

Which research topics does Hebei Meteorological Bureau publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate variability and models, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Meteorological Phenomena…14Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 14 fractional worksClimate variability and …13Climate variability and models: 13 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 5 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 5 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 4 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 4 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 4 fractional worksRemote Sensing and Land Use: 4 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 3 fractional worksUrban Heat Island Mitigation: 3 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeEnvironmental Engineering

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

  1. 1 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 14 works
  2. 2 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 13 works
  3. 3 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 5 works
  4. 4 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 5 works
  5. 5 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  6. 6 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  7. 7 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 4 works
  8. 8 Remote Sensing and Land Use Atmospheric Science 4 works
  9. 9 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 3 works
  10. 10 Urban Heat Island Mitigation Environmental Engineering 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 available25.5%not open74.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.6%domestic only93.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hebei Meteorological Bureau's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 61% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020052010201520202025
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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 Hebei Meteorological Bureau as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00062% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Hebei Meteorological Bureau0.00077% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hebei Meteorological Bureau 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 2025Hebei Meteorological Bureau6.6% 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 2021.

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