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Instituto Geofísico del Perú

In research, Instituto Geofísico del Perú stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,951 of 17,446 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#920 of 2,224 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Earth and Planetary Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences is 26.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#18,634
of 34,923
Rank in Peru
#92
of 108
Research works
345
▼ 41% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
30.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
52%
world 18%
Instituto Geofísico del Perú

What is Instituto Geofísico del Perú 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 #5,951 of 17,446 11.0%320
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #920 of 2,224 10.2%141

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Geofísico del Perú 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 Geofísico del Perú work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research at Instituto Geofísico del Perú is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%), Environmental Science (23%), Physics and Astronomy (10%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 48 fractional works · 89.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 22 fractional works · 40.8% of its workGeophysics: 10 fractional works · 19.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 9 fractional works · 16.0% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 13 fractional works · 23.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 fractional works · 13.8% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 fractional works · 10.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 fractional works · 9.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 8.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoGeofísico del…54fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences5%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences2240.8%
    2. Environmental Science1323.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy610.3%
    4. Engineering58.9%
    5. Computer Science23.5%
    6. Energy12.0%
    7. Materials Science00.4%
    8. Chemistry00.2%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.0%
    2. Social Sciences11.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.1%
    4. Decision Sciences00.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    1. Medicine12.0%
    2. Health Professions11.2%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.6%
    2. Neuroscience00.3%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Geofísico del Perú specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Earth and Planetary Sciences takes 26.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 21.9 works26×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 26.02× its world share, 22 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.12× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.59× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.72× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 4.63× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 26.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences26.02×22 works
  2. Environmental Science4.72×13 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy4.63×6 works
  4. Energy2.12×1 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.93×1 works
  6. Engineering0.59×5 works
  7. Computer Science0.45×2 works
  8. Health Professions0.45×1 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.39×0 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.35×1 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.30×1 works
  12. Neuroscience0.19×0 works
  13. Nursing0.19×0 works
  14. Chemistry0.13×0 works
  15. Materials Science0.12×0 works
  16. Medicine0.11×1 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.09×0 works
  18. Social Sciences0.09×1 works
  19. Mathematics0.08×0 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Geofísico del Perú?

Ranked on the quality score, R. F. Woodman, James Apaéstegui and Ivonne Montès lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Geofísico del Perú.

  1. 1 R. F. Woodman Peru · #281,765 worldwide 10k citations · 186 works
  2. 2 James Apaéstegui Peru · #616,196 worldwide 959 citations · 54 works
  3. 3 Ivonne Montès Peru · #618,460 worldwide 4.8k citations · 71 works
  4. 4 Juan Carlos Villegas Lanza Peru · #838,042 worldwide 745 citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Percy Condor Peru · #960,407 worldwide 374 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Orlando Macedo Peru · #1,190,303 worldwide 1k citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Edmundo O. Norabuena Peru · #1,239,022 worldwide 2k citations · 69 works
  8. 8 Ken I. Takahashi Peru · #1,337,463 worldwide 13k citations · 362 works
  9. 9 Pablo Lagos Peru · #1,532,583 worldwide 671 citations · 36 works
  10. 10 Steven Chavez Peru · #1,539,313 worldwide 482 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Geofísico del Perú

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Geofísico del Perú?

The most cited paper from Instituto Geofísico del Perú is "Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters" (Denise L. Breitburg et al., 2018), with 3,320 citations. Next come "El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity" (1,231) and "Radar observations of F region equatorial irregularities" (1,071).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters Denise L. Breitburg et al. · Science Open access 5 Jan 2018 3,320
2 El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity Axel Timmermann et al. · Nature Open access Jul 2018 1,231
3 Radar observations of F region equatorial irregularities R. F. Woodman, C. La Hoz · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Nov 1976 1,071
4 ENSO and greenhouse warming Wenju Cai, Agus Budi Santoso, Guojian Wang et al. · Nature Climate Change Open access 14 Aug 2015 921
5 Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts José Marengo, Jhan Carlo Espinoza · International Journal of Climatology Open access 14 Jul 2015 914
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Geofísico del Perú?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Subduction, Global Warming, Data Assimilation, Geodetic Measurements, Solar Wind 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 Change13▲ 9.1×30 topics
  2. Remote Sensing7▲ 11×13 topics
  3. Subduction4▲ 111×3 topics
  4. Global Warming4▲ 18×6 topics
  5. Data Assimilation4▲ 43×3 topics
  6. Geodetic Measurements3▲ 60×2 topics
  7. Solar Wind3▲ 68×2 topics
  8. Ocean Circulation3▲ 44×3 topics
  9. Hydrological Cycle3▲ 59×2 topics
  10. Sea Level Rise3▲ 45×3 topics
  11. Boundary Layer3▲ 44×2 topics
  12. Air Quality3▲ 28×4 topics
  13. Convective Parameterization3▲ 93×1 topic
  14. Electron Acceleration3▲ 81×2 topics
  15. Ensemble Kalman Filter3▲ 52×1 topic
  16. Earthquakes3▲ 87×1 topic
  17. Ionospheric Anomalies3▲ 131×1 topic
  18. Plate Boundaries3▲ 87×1 topic
  19. Seismic Electromagnetics3▲ 131×1 topic
  20. Hydrological Modeling3▲ 21×5 topics
  21. Ionosphere3▲ 87×1 topic
  22. Magnetosphere3▲ 87×1 topic
  23. Renewable Energy2▲ 3.1×6 topics
  24. Extreme Events2▲ 46×2 topics
  25. Climate Modeling2▲ 56×1 topic
  26. Precipitation Extremes2▲ 56×1 topic
  27. Ecosystem Resilience2▲ 22×3 topics
  28. Tectonic Evolution2▲ 141×2 topics
  29. Tomography2▲ 19×2 topics
  30. Andean Geodynamics2▲ 384×1 topic
  31. Caribbean Plate Boundary2▲ 384×1 topic
  32. Forest Fires2▲ 67×1 topic
  33. Wildfire Activity2▲ 67×1 topic
  34. Hazard2▲ 40×1 topic
  35. Landslide2▲ 40×1 topic
  36. Plate Tectonics2▲ 19×2 topics
  37. Precipitation2▲ 56×2 topics
  38. Satellite Observations2▲ 28×3 topics
  39. Tropical Cyclones2▲ 50×2 topics
  40. Hurricanes1▲ 78×1 topic

Which research topics does Instituto Geofísico del Perú publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics.

Meteorological Phenomena…3Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 3 fractional worksEarthquake Detection and…3Earthquake Detection and Analysis: 3 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic …3earthquake and tectonic studies: 3 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…3Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 3 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 2 fractional worksGeological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America: 2 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems2Fire effects on ecosystems: 2 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 2 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 1 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 1 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceGeophysicsAstronomy and AstrophysicsGlobal and Planetary Change1 others

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

  1. 1 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 3 works
  2. 2 Earthquake Detection and Analysis Geophysics 3 works
  3. 3 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 3 works
  4. 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 3 works
  5. 5 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  6. 6 Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America Geophysics 2 works
  7. 7 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  8. 8 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
  9. 9 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  10. 10 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis 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 available57.9%not open42.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors52.0%domestic only48.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Geofísico del Perú's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% lower 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 Geofísico del Perú as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00022% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Instituto Geofísico del Perú0.00021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Geofísico del Perú over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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