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Instituto Antártico Chileno

In research, Instituto Antártico Chileno stands highest in Physical Sciences (#15,746 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Environmental Science (Environmental Science is 9.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#25,686
of 34,923
Rank in Chile
#112
of 133
Research works
259
▲ 35% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.3k
9.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
41%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
Instituto Antártico Chileno

What is Instituto Antártico Chileno known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #15,746 of 17,446 4.9%162

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Antártico Chileno 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 Instituto Antártico Chileno work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at Instituto Antártico Chileno is in Physical Sciences, 16% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (46%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 38 fractional works · 70.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 24 fractional works · 45.6% of its workEcology: 16 fractional works · 29.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 7.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 fractional works · 18.9% of its workOceanography: 5 fractional works · 8.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 15.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.4% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 6.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoAntártico Chileno53fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences71%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences6%

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 Science2445.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1018.9%
    3. Engineering12.6%
    4. Energy11.9%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.7%
    6. Materials Science00.7%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    8. Computer Science00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology47.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences36.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.5%
    4. Neuroscience00.4%
    1. Medicine46.6%
    2. Dentistry00.5%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences23.3%
    2. Psychology11.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.8%
    4. Decision Sciences00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Antártico Chileno specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Science takes 9.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Environmental ScienceField · 24.4 works9.2×
← 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: 1.31× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.41× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.50× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12.04× its world share, 10 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.04× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.18× its world share, 24 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.11× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.77× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryDecision Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.26× 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, 12.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.04×10 works
  2. Environmental Science9.18×24 works
  3. Energy2.04×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.50×1 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.41×4 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.31×3 works
  7. Dentistry1.11×0 works
  8. Veterinary0.77×0 works
  9. Psychology0.61×1 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.39×0 works
  11. Medicine0.34×4 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.33×0 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.32×0 works
  14. Neuroscience0.26×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.26×2 works
  16. Nursing0.21×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.20×0 works
  18. Engineering0.18×1 works
  19. Chemistry0.08×0 works
  20. Computer Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Antártico Chileno?

Ranked on the quality score, Marcelo A. Leppe, Cristine Trevisan and Ricardo Jaña lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Antártico Chileno.

  1. 1 Marcelo A. Leppe Chile · #1,274,985 worldwide 1.1k citations · 62 works
  2. 2 Cristine Trevisan Chile · #2,474,554 worldwide 196 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Ricardo Jaña Chile · #2,670,183 worldwide 949 citations · 76 works
  4. 4 Juan J. Capella Chile · #2,863,580 worldwide 1.1k citations · 47 works
  5. 5 Edmundo Pisano Valdés Chile · #3,195,887 worldwide 422 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Marcelo González‐Aravena Chile · #3,227,349 worldwide 2.3k citations · 91 works
  7. 7 Paola Acuña Chile · #3,367,813 worldwide 237 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 César Antonio Cárdenas Chile · #3,427,925 worldwide 1.5k citations · 95 works
  9. 9 Inti González Chile · #3,529,633 worldwide 103 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 Olivia Blank Chile · #3,856,569 worldwide 328 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Antártico Chileno

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Antártico Chileno?

The most cited paper from Instituto Antártico Chileno is "A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond" (M.C. Kennicutt et al., 2014), with 215 citations. Next come "Three decades of ocean warming impacts on marine ecosystems: A review and perspective" (210) and "Spatio‐temporal rainfall patterns in Southern South America" (207).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond M.C. Kennicutt et al. · Antarctic Science Open access 18 Sep 2014 215
2 Three decades of ocean warming impacts on marine ecosystems: A review and perspective Roberto Mario Venegas, Jorge Acevedo, Eric A. Treml · Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography Open access 10 Aug 2023 210
3 Spatio‐temporal rainfall patterns in Southern South America Juan Carlos Aravena, Brian Henry Luckman · International Journal of Climatology Open access 2 Dec 2008 207
4 Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries Raphael Neukom, Jürg Luterbacher, Ricardo Villalba et al. · Climate Dynamics Open access 27 Mar 2010 177
5 Revising the recent evolutionary history of equids using ancient DNA Ludovic Orlando et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 9 Dec 2009 167
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Antártico Chileno?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Population Dynamics, Biogeography, Conservation, Biodiversity, Acoustic Communication, Predator-Prey Interactions and Anthropogenic Noise.

▲ 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 Change21▲ 14×28 topics
  2. Population Dynamics6▲ 45×5 topics
  3. Biogeography6▲ 39×10 topics
  4. Conservation6▲ 24×7 topics
  5. Biodiversity5▲ 12×11 topics
  6. Acoustic Communication5▲ 170×2 topics
  7. Predator-Prey Interactions5▲ 111×2 topics
  8. Anthropogenic Noise5▲ 308×1 topic
  9. Marine Mammals5▲ 308×1 topic
  10. Ecology4▲ 43×5 topics
  11. Permafrost4▲ 149×2 topics
  12. Trophic Cascades3▲ 66×2 topics
  13. Antarctic3▲ 563×1 topic
  14. Microorganisms3▲ 439×1 topic
  15. Ocean Acidification3▲ 77×3 topics
  16. Remote Sensing3▲ 4.4×6 topics
  17. Microbial Ecology3▲ 28×3 topics
  18. Bacterial Diversity3▲ 41×2 topics
  19. Environmental Impact3▲ 2.8×6 topics
  20. Fisheries Sustainability3▲ 56×2 topics
  21. Benthic Communities2▲ 76×2 topics
  22. Marine Biodiversity2▲ 76×2 topics
  23. Marine Microbes2▲ 80×1 topic
  24. Microbial Biogeography2▲ 80×1 topic
  25. Ecosystem Management2▲ 77×1 topic
  26. Marine Fisheries2▲ 112×1 topic
  27. Habitat Selection2▲ 60×2 topics
  28. Marine Environment2▲ 28×3 topics
  29. Phylogenetic Analysis2▲ 12×6 topics
  30. Ecosystem Functioning2▲ 18×5 topics
  31. Global Change2▲ 13×4 topics
  32. Arctic2▲ 28×3 topics
  33. Hydrology2▲ 25×2 topics
  34. Ocean Circulation2▲ 23×3 topics
  35. Avian Ecology2▲ 128×1 topic
  36. Migration Patterns2▲ 107×1 topic
  37. Climate Change Impacts1▲ 21×2 topics
  38. Deep-Sea Ecology1▲ 86×1 topic
  39. Estuarine Quality1▲ 86×1 topic
  40. Sea Level Rise1▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Antártico Chileno publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine animal studies overview, Polar Research and Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology and Marine and fisheries research.

Marine animal studies ov…5Marine animal studies overview: 5 fractional worksPolar Research and Ecology: 3 fractional worksMicrobial Community Ecol…2Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology: 2 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…2Marine and fisheries research: 2 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 2 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …1Cryospheric studies and observations: 1 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecolo…1Marine Biology and Ecology Research: 1 fractional worksOcean Acidification Effects and Responses: 1 fractional worksGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies: 1 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 1 fractional works
EcologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceOceanography1 others

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

  1. 1 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 5 works
  2. 2 Polar Research and Ecology Ecology 3 works
  3. 3 Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Ecology 2 works
  4. 4 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  5. 5 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 2 works
  6. 6 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 1 works
  7. 7 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 1 works
  8. 8 Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses Oceanography 1 works
  9. 9 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Molecular Biology 1 works
  10. 10 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 1 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 available40.8%not open59.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.5%domestic only66.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Antártico Chileno's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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 Instituto Antártico Chileno as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00024% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Instituto Antártico Chileno0.00017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Antártico Chileno over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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