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Météo-France

In research, Météo-France stands highest in Environmental Science (#1,829 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#6,708 of 10,670 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#699 of 1,088 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography (Atmospheric Science is 55.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,610
of 22,385 · #6,828 all time
Rank in France
#299
of 517
Research works
1.9k
▼ 26% vs 2018-21
Citations
71k
36.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
Météo-France

What is Météo-France 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 #1,829 of 3,334 11.5%71 #1551
Physical SciencesDomain #6,708 of 10,670 10.4%170 #3420
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #699 of 1,088 10.8%69 #645

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Météo-France 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#1,551 #1,829
  2. Physical Sciences#3,420 #6,708
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences#645 #699
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 Météo-France work in?

In 2022-now, 83% of research at Météo-France is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (35%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (34%), Engineering (8%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 242 fractional works · 82.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 103 fractional works · 35.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 65 fractional works · 22.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 19 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 99 fractional works · 33.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 72 fractional works · 24.6% of its workOceanography: 21 fractional works · 7.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 24 fractional works · 8.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 7.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 12 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMétéo-France293fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences83%Health Sciences4%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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science10335.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences9933.8%
    3. Engineering248.3%
    4. Computer Science72.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy51.7%
    6. Mathematics20.5%
    7. Materials Science10.3%
    8. Chemistry10.2%
    9. Energy10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences186.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.9%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Neuroscience00.0%
    1. Social Sciences82.6%
    2. Decision Sciences41.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.9%
    4. Arts and Humanities20.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    6. Psychology10.2%
    1. Medicine82.6%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Veterinary20.6%
    4. Nursing00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Météo-France specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 55.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 71.9 works56×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 65.3 works29×
  3. OceanographySubfield · 20.8 works25×
  4. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 98.8 works22×
  5. Environmental ScienceField · 103.5 works7.1×
← 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: 1.27× its world share, 18 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.30× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21.54× its world share, 99 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.55× its world share, 24 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.12× its world share, 104 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.76× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.67× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.31× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.44× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 21.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.54×99 works
  2. Environmental Science7.12×104 works
  3. Veterinary4.67×2 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.31×4 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.27×18 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy0.76×5 works
  7. Engineering0.55×24 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.54×1 works
  9. Mathematics0.46×2 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.44×3 works
  11. Health Professions0.32×2 works
  12. Computer Science0.30×7 works
  13. Energy0.26×1 works
  14. Nursing0.23×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.20×8 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.18×2 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.16×2 works
  18. Chemistry0.15×1 works
  19. Medicine0.14×8 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×0 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.12×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.08×1 works
  23. Materials Science0.07×1 works
  24. Psychology0.06×0 works
  25. Neuroscience0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Météo-France?

Ranked on the quality score, Martine Michou, Éric Bazile and Lola Corre lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Météo-France.

  1. 1 Martine Michou France · #50,988 worldwide 9.3k citations · 132 works
  2. 2 Éric Bazile France · #200,956 worldwide 4.5k citations · 118 works
  3. 3 Lola Corre France · #276,414 worldwide 1.5k citations · 49 works
  4. 4 Florence Sevault France · #280,328 worldwide 5k citations · 113 works
  5. 5 Bernard Lesaffre France · #358,690 worldwide 3.4k citations · 70 works
  6. 6 Paul Poli France · #412,624 worldwide 33k citations · 121 works
  7. 7 E. Brun France · #430,116 worldwide 8.1k citations · 87 works
  8. 8 Olivier Bousquet France · #721,742 worldwide 21k citations · 309 works
  9. 9 Clotilde Dubois France · #731,716 worldwide 2.6k citations · 95 works
  10. 10 Rachel Honnert France · #809,291 worldwide 1.4k citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Météo-France

What are the most cited papers from Météo-France?

The most cited paper from Météo-France is "The ERA‐40 re‐analysis" (S. Uppala et al., 2005), with 7,164 citations. Next come "ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications" (5,281) and "The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project" (3,728).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The ERA‐40 re‐analysis S. Uppala et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access Oct 2005 7,164
2 ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications Joaquín Muñoz‐Sabater, Emanuel Dutra, Anna Agustí‐Panareda et al. · Earth system science data Open access 7 Sep 2021 5,281
3 The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project Gilbert P. Compo et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access 2011 3,728
4 EURO-CORDEX: new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research Daniela Jacob et al. · Regional Environmental Change Open access 22 Jul 2013 2,868
5 Global Carbon Budget 2020 Pierre Friedlingstein et al. · Earth system science data Open access 10 Dec 2020 2,578
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Météo-France?

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

▲ 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 Change96▲ 12×65 topics
  2. Remote Sensing50▲ 14×21 topics
  3. Global Warming46▲ 37×10 topics
  4. Data Assimilation44▲ 91×4 topics
  5. Ocean Circulation39▲ 97×3 topics
  6. Hydrological Cycle39▲ 131×2 topics
  7. Boundary Layer37▲ 100×3 topics
  8. Probabilistic Forecasting31▲ 54×2 topics
  9. Greenhouse Gas Emissions30▲ 38×6 topics
  10. Ensemble Kalman Filter30▲ 102×2 topics
  11. Convective Parameterization30▲ 181×1 topic
  12. Mesoscale Modeling30▲ 181×1 topic
  13. Extreme Events28▲ 102×2 topics
  14. Climate Modeling27▲ 124×1 topic
  15. Precipitation Extremes27▲ 124×1 topic
  16. Air Quality24▲ 44×5 topics
  17. Satellite Observations22▲ 77×3 topics
  18. Sea Level Rise20▲ 55×3 topics
  19. Hydrological Modeling19▲ 27×5 topics
  20. Hydrology14▲ 36×4 topics
  21. Climate13▲ 47×2 topics
  22. Tropical Cyclones13▲ 76×2 topics
  23. Aerosols12▲ 58×1 topic
  24. Atmospheric Dust12▲ 149×1 topic
  25. Gut Microbiota10▲ 10×5 topics
  26. Climate Change Impact10▲ 15×2 topics
  27. Probiotics10▲ 14×3 topics
  28. Validation10▲ 38×2 topics
  29. Amino Acids10▲ 35×2 topics
  30. Antibiotic Alternatives10▲ 60×1 topic
  31. Heat Stress10▲ 41×2 topics
  32. Poultry Production10▲ 60×1 topic
  33. Oceanic Modeling9▲ 89×1 topic
  34. Tidal Analysis9▲ 89×1 topic
  35. Ecosystem Resilience9▲ 21×5 topics
  36. Large-Eddy Simulation9▲ 17×4 topics
  37. Glacier9▲ 67×1 topic
  38. Water Availability9▲ 67×1 topic
  39. Hurricanes8▲ 83×1 topic
  40. Storm Surge8▲ 83×1 topic

Which research topics does Météo-France publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds and Animal Nutrition and Physiology.

Meteorological Phenomena…30Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 30 fractional worksClimate variability and …27Climate variability and models: 27 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 12 fractional worksAnimal Nutrition and Physiology: 10 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 9 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …9Cryospheric studies and observations: 9 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 8 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 7 fractional worksWind and Air Flow Studies: 6 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 6 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeAnimal Science and ZoologyOceanography1 others

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

  1. 1 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 30 works
  2. 2 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 27 works
  3. 3 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 12 works
  4. 4 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 10 works
  5. 5 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 9 works
  6. 6 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 9 works
  7. 7 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 8 works
  8. 8 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 7 works
  9. 9 Wind and Air Flow Studies Environmental Engineering 6 works
  10. 10 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 6 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 available53.8%not open46.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.2%domestic only65.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Météo-France's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% lower 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 Météo-France as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00083% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Météo-France0.00095% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Météo-France 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Météo-France9.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.7% in 1993.

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