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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

In research, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research stands highest in Environmental Science (#13 of 3,551 worldwide), Global and Planetary Change (#4 of 535 worldwide) and Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#53 of 3,409 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Soil Science — Global and Planetary Change is 23.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#530
of 28,054 · #1,230 all time
Rank in China
#174
of 3,058
Research works
9.8k
▲ 40% vs 2013–17
Citations
256k
26.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
38.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Environmental ScienceField #13 of 3,551 36.6%1,156 #129
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #4 of 535 37.5%423 #45
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #53 of 3,409 44.2%269 #137
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #26 of 1,209 31.4%227 #176
Physical SciencesDomain #391 of 12,888 35.1%1,650 #1058
EcologySubfield #26 of 578 38.6%180 #246
Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawSubfield #21 of 324 47.9%81 #104
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #24 of 301 32.1%161 #172
Social SciencesDomain #935 of 10,521 52.7%344 #1221
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #193 of 1,775 56.0%103 #404

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Environmental Science#129 #13
  2. Global and Planetary Change#45 #4
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#137 #53
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences#176 #26
  5. Physical Sciences#1,058 #391
  6. Ecology#246 #26
  7. Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law#104 #21
  8. Atmospheric Science#172 #24
  9. Social Sciences#1,221 #935
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#404 #193
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Global and Planetary Change takes 23.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 423.2 works24×
  2. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 160.6 works16×
  3. Soil ScienceSubfield · 95.7 works14×
  4. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 134.0 works11×
  5. Environmental ScienceField · 1,156.1 works10.0×
  6. EcologySubfield · 180.0 works9.8×
  7. Water Science and TechnologySubfield · 115.7 works9.6×
← 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: 2.43× its world share, 269 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.23× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.36× its world share, 66 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.20× its world share, 227 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.72× its world share, 15 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.44× its world share, 155 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.99× its world share, 1,156 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 9 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.21× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.22× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 28 worksMedicineNursing: 0.70× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 22 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.06× its world share, 103 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 201 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 10.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research?

Ranked on the composite score, Yansui Liu, Hairong Li and Hualou Long lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research.

  1. 1 Yansui Liu China · #3,553 worldwide 1.3k citations · 96 works
  2. 2 Hairong Li China · #15,811 worldwide 691 citations · 50 works
  3. 3 Hualou Long China · #15,981 worldwide 727 citations · 49 works
  4. 4 Yurui Li China · #38,758 worldwide 458 citations · 34 works
  5. 5 Weidong Liu China · #57,431 worldwide 489 citations · 71 works
  6. 6 Xiubin Li China · #63,513 worldwide 311 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Yong Ge China · #65,640 worldwide 423 citations · 54 works
  8. 8 Chuanglin Fang China · #66,542 worldwide 488 citations · 76 works
  9. 9 Fengjun Jin China · #71,501 worldwide 226 citations · 40 works
  10. 10 Jiaoe Wang China · #73,218 worldwide 326 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

Which keywords describe research at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Land Use Change, Sustainability, Urbanization, Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Policy.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Change715▲ 11×89 topics
  2. Remote Sensing379▲ 13×35 topics
  3. Land Use Change326▲ 46×8 topics
  4. Sustainability321▲ 5.7×66 topics
  5. Urbanization227▲ 24×10 topics
  6. Ecosystem Services220▲ 24×13 topics
  7. Biodiversity Conservation218▲ 25×14 topics
  8. Environmental Impact157▲ 4.0×46 topics
  9. Environmental Policy156▲ 33×6 topics
  10. Global Impact153▲ 39×4 topics
  11. Social-Ecological Systems151▲ 48×3 topics
  12. Human-Nature Interactions149▲ 69×1 topic
  13. Spatial Dynamics149▲ 69×1 topic
  14. Global Warming133▲ 14×13 topics
  15. Machine Learning129▲ 1.70×46 topics
  16. Hydrological Modeling123▲ 23×5 topics
  17. Water Resources117▲ 21×10 topics
  18. Global Change107▲ 18×6 topics
  19. Greenhouse Gas Emissions104▲ 16×9 topics
  20. Ecosystem Resilience94▲ 27×5 topics
  21. Biomass Estimation92▲ 26×3 topics
  22. Drought87▲ 39×3 topics
  23. Sediment Transport84▲ 23×6 topics
  24. Economic Growth84▲ 4.2×19 topics
  25. Evapotranspiration82▲ 46×2 topics
  26. Biodiversity76▲ 4.4×26 topics
  27. Model Evaluation75▲ 26×2 topics
  28. Hydrology74▲ 25×4 topics
  29. Climate71▲ 35×2 topics
  30. Phenology68▲ 46×1 topic
  31. Vegetation Monitoring68▲ 46×1 topic
  32. Adaptation63▲ 9.4×8 topics
  33. Carbon Balance62▲ 58×1 topic
  34. Tree Mortality62▲ 58×1 topic
  35. Urban Heat Island62▲ 27×2 topics
  36. Extreme Events61▲ 30×2 topics
  37. Global Hydrology60▲ 39×1 topic
  38. Uncertainty Assessment60▲ 39×1 topic
  39. Sustainability Assessment57▲ 18×8 topics
  40. Ecosystem Functioning57▲ 13×7 topics

Which research topics does Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Land Use and Ecosystem S…149Land Use and Ecosystem Services: 149 fractional worksRemote Sensing in Agriculture: 68 fractional worksPlant Water Relations an…62Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 62 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed …60Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 60 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 47 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 46 fractional worksRemote Sensing and Land …35Remote Sensing and Land Use: 35 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 34 fractional worksUrban Transport and Accessibility: 33 fractional worksEnvironmental Impact and Sustainability: 30 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeEcologyWater Science and TechnologySoil Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 149 works
  2. 2 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 68 works
  3. 3 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 62 works
  4. 4 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 60 works
  5. 5 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 47 works
  6. 6 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 46 works
  7. 7 Remote Sensing and Land Use Atmospheric Science 35 works
  8. 8 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 34 works
  9. 9 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 33 works
  10. 10 Environmental Impact and Sustainability Environmental Engineering 30 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 available35.6%not open64.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.4%domestic only81.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 40% higher than in 2013–2017.

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.

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