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Millennium Institute of Oceanography

In research, Millennium Institute of Oceanography stands highest in Physical Sciences (#15,475 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#22,952
of 34,923
Rank in Chile
#99
of 133
Research works
228
▼ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.4k
19.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
72%
world 40%
International
52%
world 18%
Millennium Institute of Oceanography

What is Millennium Institute of Oceanography 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 #15,475 of 17,446 8.8%134

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Millennium Institute of Oceanography 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 Millennium Institute of Oceanography work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Millennium Institute of Oceanography is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (42%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (28%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 36 fractional works · 74.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 21 fractional works · 42.0% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 13.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 8.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 fractional works · 28.1% of its workOceanography: 11 fractional works · 22.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 11.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 9.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.8% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMillenniumInstitute of…49fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences74%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences9%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science2142.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1428.1%
    3. Engineering11.7%
    4. Materials Science01.0%
    5. Energy00.6%
    6. Computer Science00.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    8. Chemistry00.2%
    9. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology35.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences24.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    5. Neuroscience00.3%
    1. Social Sciences47.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
    3. Psychology00.4%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Medicine24.4%
    2. Health Professions00.4%
    3. Veterinary00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.92× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.99× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.98× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17.90× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 8.45× its world share, 20 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksMedicineVeterinary: 1.25× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 17.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences17.90×14 works
  2. Environmental Science8.45×20 works
  3. Veterinary1.25×0 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.99×3 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology0.98×0 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.97×0 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.92×2 works
  8. Energy0.65×0 works
  9. Social Sciences0.61×4 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.48×0 works
  11. Materials Science0.28×0 works
  12. Medicine0.23×2 works
  13. Mathematics0.19×0 works
  14. Neuroscience0.17×0 works
  15. Health Professions0.15×0 works
  16. Psychology0.15×0 works
  17. Chemistry0.14×0 works
  18. Engineering0.11×1 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  20. Computer Science0.06×0 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Millennium Institute of Oceanography?

Ranked on the quality score, Véra Oerder and Carolina E. González lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Millennium Institute of Oceanography.

  1. 1 Véra Oerder Chile · #2,495,678 worldwide 443 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Carolina E. González Chile · #5,123,509 worldwide 198 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at Millennium Institute of Oceanography

What are the most cited papers from Millennium Institute of Oceanography?

The most cited paper from Millennium Institute of Oceanography is "Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate" (T. D. Jickells, Zhisheng An, K. K. Andersen et al., 2005), with 3,074 citations. Next come "A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes" (1,007) and "A Cryptic Sulfur Cycle in Oxygen-Minimum–Zone Waters off the Chilean Coast" (647).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate T. D. Jickells, Zhisheng An, K. K. Andersen et al. · Science 31 Mar 2005 3,074
2 A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes Stephen Nayfach et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access267 authors 9 Nov 2020 1,007
3 A Cryptic Sulfur Cycle in Oxygen-Minimum–Zone Waters off the Chilean Coast Donald E. Canfield, Frank J. Stewart, Bo Thamdrup et al. · Science Open access 12 Nov 2010 647
4 BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene María Dornelas et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography Open access270 authors Jul 2018 457
5 Global phylogeography of marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus reveals a distinct partitioning of lineages among oceanic biomes Katrin Zwirglmaier, Ludwig E. Jardillier, Martin D. Ostrowski et al. · Environmental Microbiology Open access 27 Sep 2007 443
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Millennium Institute of Oceanography?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Harmful Algal Blooms, Eutrophication, Global Warming, Dissolved Organic Matter, Oceanic Carbon Cycle, Benthic Communities and Marine Biodiversity.

▲ 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▲ 9.8×28 topics
  2. Harmful Algal Blooms5▲ 115×3 topics
  3. Eutrophication4▲ 80×2 topics
  4. Global Warming4▲ 21×4 topics
  5. Benthic Communities4▲ 129×2 topics
  6. Dissolved Organic Matter4▲ 177×1 topic
  7. Marine Biodiversity4▲ 129×2 topics
  8. Oceanic Carbon Cycle4▲ 177×1 topic
  9. Biodiversity4▲ 10×12 topics
  10. Ocean Acidification3▲ 93×3 topics
  11. Sustainability3▲ 2.8×8 topics
  12. Ecosystem Functioning3▲ 32×3 topics
  13. Biogeography3▲ 22×5 topics
  14. Global Change3▲ 21×5 topics
  15. Invasive Species3▲ 13×8 topics
  16. Deep-Sea Ecology3▲ 173×1 topic
  17. Estuarine Quality3▲ 173×1 topic
  18. Environmental Impact2▲ 3.0×7 topics
  19. Ecosystem Management2▲ 83×2 topics
  20. Aquaculture2▲ 18×5 topics
  21. Conservation2▲ 10×9 topics
  22. Fisheries Sustainability2▲ 52×2 topics
  23. Trophic Cascades2▲ 47×2 topics
  24. Marine Environment2▲ 29×3 topics
  25. Population Dynamics2▲ 16×7 topics
  26. Fish Population Dynamics2▲ 96×1 topic
  27. Marine Fisheries2▲ 96×1 topic
  28. Ocean Circulation2▲ 28×3 topics
  29. Molecular Phylogeny2▲ 21×5 topics
  30. Ecosystem Services2▲ 7.9×3 topics
  31. Microbial Ecology2▲ 17×2 topics
  32. Water Quality2▲ 7.5×6 topics
  33. CO2 Emissions1▲ 16×1 topic
  34. Climate Change Impacts1▲ 24×3 topics
  35. Coastal Protection1▲ 42×2 topics
  36. Marine Microbes1▲ 48×1 topic
  37. Marine Organisms1▲ 238×1 topic
  38. Microbial Biogeography1▲ 48×1 topic
  39. Ecosystem Resilience1▲ 17×2 topics
  40. Marine Ecosystems1▲ 48×2 topics

Which research topics does Millennium Institute of Oceanography publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and fisheries research and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses.

Marine and coastal ecosy…4Marine and coastal ecosystems: 4 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecology Research: 3 fractional worksMarine and fisheries research: 2 fractional worksOcean Acidification Effects and Responses: 1 fractional worksMicrobial Community Ecology and Physiology: 1 fractional worksMarine and coastal plant biology: 1 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmosp…1Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 1 fractional worksMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 1 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Management: 1 fractional worksIsotope Analysis in Ecology: 1 fractional works
OceanographyGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcologyManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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

  1. 1 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 4 works
  2. 2 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 3 works
  3. 3 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  4. 4 Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses Oceanography 1 works
  5. 5 Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Ecology 1 works
  6. 6 Marine and coastal plant biology Oceanography 1 works
  7. 7 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 1 works
  8. 8 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  9. 9 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  10. 10 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 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 available71.6%not open28.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors51.8%domestic only48.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Millennium Institute of Oceanography's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% 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 Millennium Institute of Oceanography as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Millennium Institute of Oceanography0.00022% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Millennium Institute of Oceanography over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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