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Instituto Español de Oceanografía

In research, Instituto Español de Oceanografía stands highest in Environmental Science (#891 of 3,334 worldwide), Life Sciences (#2,863 of 6,403 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#5,831 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography, Aquatic Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation (Oceanography is 53.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#9,989
of 22,385 · #5,379 all time
Rank in Spain
#197
of 426
Research works
2.2k
▲ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
59k
27.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
73%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
Instituto Español de Oceanografía

What is Instituto Español de Oceanografía 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
Environmental ScienceField #891 of 3,334 9.7%219 #814
Life SciencesDomain #2,863 of 6,403 12.9%64 #2438
Physical SciencesDomain #5,831 of 10,670 9.4%321 #3339
EcologySubfield #394 of 600 9.4%61 #575
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #377 of 544 9.9%69 #538
OceanographySubfield #115 of 158 10.0%60 #244
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #902 of 1,088 8.7%79 #865

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Español de Oceanografía 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. Environmental Science#814 #891
  2. Life Sciences#2,438 #2,863
  3. Physical Sciences#3,339 #5,831
  4. Ecology#575 #394
  5. Global and Planetary Change#538 #377
  6. Oceanography#244 #115
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences#865 #902
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 Instituto Español de Oceanografía work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at Instituto Español de Oceanografía is in Physical Sciences, 16% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (53%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 391 fractional works · 79.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 261 fractional works · 53.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 84 fractional works · 17.1% of its workEcology: 72 fractional works · 14.7% of its workPollution: 29 fractional works · 6.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 27 fractional works · 5.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 15 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 101 fractional works · 20.6% of its workOceanography: 73 fractional works · 15.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeophysics: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPaleontology: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 17 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 14 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 78 fractional works · 15.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 36 fractional works · 7.4% of its workAquatic Science: 22 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 31 fractional works · 6.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 19 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workImmunology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 3.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInstituto Españolde Oceanografía490fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences3%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science26153.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences10120.6%
    3. Engineering173.4%
    4. Materials Science40.8%
    5. Energy30.6%
    6. Chemistry20.3%
    7. Computer Science20.3%
    8. Mathematics10.2%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences367.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology316.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology91.8%
    4. Neuroscience10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Arts and Humanities51.0%
    2. Social Sciences51.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.4%
    5. Psychology10.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Medicine51.0%
    2. Veterinary10.2%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Health Professions00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Español de Oceanografía specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 53.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OceanographySubfield · 73.3 works53×
  2. Aquatic ScienceSubfield · 22.2 works25×
  3. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 27.3 works23×
  4. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 83.9 works23×
  5. EcologySubfield · 72.2 works19×
  6. PollutionSubfield · 29.3 works15×
  7. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 100.8 works13×
← 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: 1.55× its world share, 36 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.20× its world share, 31 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.76× its world share, 9 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13.11× its world share, 101 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.63× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.23× its world share, 17 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 10.73× its world share, 261 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 5 worksMedicineNursing: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.79× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.35× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× 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, 13.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.11×101 works
  2. Environmental Science10.73×261 works
  3. Veterinary1.79×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.76×9 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.55×36 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.20×31 works
  7. Energy0.63×3 works
  8. Arts and Humanities0.35×5 works
  9. Nursing0.25×1 works
  10. Engineering0.23×17 works
  11. Materials Science0.22×4 works
  12. Chemistry0.21×2 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.20×0 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.18×0 works
  15. Mathematics0.18×1 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.17×2 works
  17. Neuroscience0.16×1 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.11×2 works
  19. Decision Sciences0.11×0 works
  20. Social Sciences0.08×5 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.06×1 works
  22. Psychology0.06×1 works
  23. Medicine0.05×5 works
  24. Computer Science0.04×2 works
  25. Health Professions0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Español de Oceanografía?

Ranked on the quality score, Jesús M. Arrieta, Carme Alomar and Lázaro Marín‐Guirao lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Español de Oceanografía.

  1. 1 Jesús M. Arrieta Spain · #341,177 worldwide 8.7k citations · 94 works
  2. 2 Carme Alomar Spain · #406,486 worldwide 4.9k citations · 111 works
  3. 3 Lázaro Marín‐Guirao Spain · #436,482 worldwide 3.9k citations · 134 works
  4. 4 Juan Bellas Spain · #443,712 worldwide 5.3k citations · 139 works
  5. 5 Salud Deudero Spain · #445,113 worldwide 10k citations · 255 works
  6. 6 Jesús Gago Spain · #508,044 worldwide 4.8k citations · 95 works
  7. 7 Montserrat Compa Spain · #536,543 worldwide 2.9k citations · 87 works
  8. 8 Ana María Cabello Spain · #562,959 worldwide 1.9k citations · 44 works
  9. 9 Juan Manuel Ruiz Spain · #626,543 worldwide 3.7k citations · 102 works
  10. 10 Víctor M. León Spain · #759,292 worldwide 3.9k citations · 89 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Español de Oceanografía

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Español de Oceanografía?

The most cited paper from Instituto Español de Oceanografía is "Plastic debris in the open ocean" (Andrés Cózar, Fidel Echevarrı́a, J. Ignacio González-Gordillo et al., 2014), with 3,157 citations. Next come "Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave" (1,061) and "Large mesopelagic fishes biomass and trophic efficiency in the open ocean" (813).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Plastic debris in the open ocean Andrés Cózar, Fidel Echevarrı́a, J. Ignacio González-Gordillo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 Jun 2014 3,157
2 Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave Joaquim Garrabou et al. · Global Change Biology 18 Nov 2008 1,061
3 Large mesopelagic fishes biomass and trophic efficiency in the open ocean Xabier Irigoien, Thor A. Klevjer, Anders Røstad et al. · Nature Communications Open access 7 Feb 2014 813
4 The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters Giuseppe Suaria, Carlo Giacomo Avio, Annabella Mineo et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 23 Nov 2016 794
5 Exposure of marine mussels Mytilus spp. to polystyrene microplastics: Toxicity and influence on fluoranthene bioaccumulation Ika Paul-Pont, Camille CL Lacroix, Carmen González-Fernández et al. · Environmental Pollution Open access Jul 2016 713
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Español de Oceanografía?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Environmental Impact, Fisheries Sustainability, Marine Environment, Ocean Acidification, Trophic Cascades, Ecosystem Management and Marine Fisheries.

▲ 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 Change149▲ 11×50 topics
  2. Environmental Impact64▲ 7.7×24 topics
  3. Fisheries Sustainability55▲ 131×2 topics
  4. Marine Environment54▲ 77×3 topics
  5. Ocean Acidification43▲ 117×3 topics
  6. Trophic Cascades42▲ 94×2 topics
  7. Ecosystem Management42▲ 145×1 topic
  8. Marine Fisheries42▲ 211×1 topic
  9. Aquaculture39▲ 31×7 topics
  10. Biodiversity37▲ 9.8×16 topics
  11. Conservation36▲ 17×13 topics
  12. Benthic Communities35▲ 117×2 topics
  13. Marine Biodiversity35▲ 117×2 topics
  14. Invasive Species35▲ 17×12 topics
  15. Ecosystem Functioning35▲ 35×4 topics
  16. Biogeography34▲ 25×7 topics
  17. Marine Ecosystems32▲ 119×2 topics
  18. Waste Management28▲ 15×5 topics
  19. Recycling28▲ 15×3 topics
  20. Ecosystem Services26▲ 14×6 topics
  21. Harmful Algal Blooms25▲ 62×3 topics
  22. Pollution25▲ 26×3 topics
  23. Population Dynamics24▲ 19×8 topics
  24. Bleaching23▲ 146×1 topic
  25. Coral Reefs23▲ 146×1 topic
  26. Food Security23▲ 8.7×6 topics
  27. Global Warming23▲ 11×9 topics
  28. Bivalve Molluscs22▲ 151×1 topic
  29. Human Health22▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Oyster Reefs22▲ 151×1 topic
  31. Microplastics22▲ 46×1 topic
  32. Terrestrial Ecosystems22▲ 46×1 topic
  33. Deep-Sea Ecology21▲ 139×1 topic
  34. Estuarine Quality21▲ 139×1 topic
  35. Eutrophication21▲ 38×4 topics
  36. Dissolved Organic Matter18▲ 81×1 topic
  37. Oceanic Carbon Cycle18▲ 81×1 topic
  38. Coastal Protection18▲ 53×2 topics
  39. Climate Change Impacts17▲ 28×4 topics
  40. Phylogenetic Analysis17▲ 11×10 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Español de Oceanografía publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and fisheries research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

Marine and fisheries res…42Marine and fisheries research: 42 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 23 fractional worksMarine Bivalve and Aquac…22Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 22 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plasti…22Microplastics and Plastic Pollution: 22 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecology Research: 21 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 18 fractional worksMarine and coastal plant…14Marine and coastal plant biology: 14 fractional worksMarine Ecology and Invasive Species: 14 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 13 fractional worksIsotope Analysis in Ecology: 11 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeEcologyPollutionOceanography1 others

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

  1. 1 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 42 works
  2. 2 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 23 works
  3. 3 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 22 works
  4. 4 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 22 works
  5. 5 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 21 works
  6. 6 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 18 works
  7. 7 Marine and coastal plant biology Oceanography 14 works
  8. 8 Marine Ecology and Invasive Species Global and Planetary Change 14 works
  9. 9 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 13 works
  10. 10 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 11 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 available72.6%not open27.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.0%domestic only65.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Español de Oceanografía'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 Instituto Español de Oceanografía as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Instituto Español de Oceanografía0.0017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Español de Oceanografía 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 2025Instituto Español de Oceanografía7.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.8% in 2004.

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