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Minnesota Geological Survey

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Research works
46
▼ 27% vs 2013–17
Citations
970
21.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
14%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Minnesota Geological Survey is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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.

Neuroscience: 3.60× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.75× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18.64× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 2.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.46× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 18.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Minnesota Geological Survey?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Tectonics, Geological Mapping, Holocene, Sea Level, Glacial Cycles and Paleoclimatology.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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 Change9▲ 7.6×11 topics
  2. Remote Sensing7▲ 14×6 topics
  3. Geological Mapping7▲ 156×2 topics
  4. Tectonics7▲ 89×3 topics
  5. Holocene5▲ 72×2 topics
  6. Sea Level5▲ 83×2 topics
  7. Glacial Cycles5▲ 99×1 topic
  8. Paleoclimatology5▲ 86×1 topic
  9. Plate Tectonics5▲ 46×3 topics
  10. Machine Learning5▲ 4.7×3 topics
  11. Compositional Data Analysis4▲ 129×1 topic
  12. Geochronology4▲ 94×1 topic
  13. Mineral Prospectivity4▲ 129×1 topic
  14. Zircon4▲ 94×1 topic
  15. GIS-based Modeling4▲ 102×2 topics
  16. Geochemistry3▲ 92×4 topics
  17. Geological Modeling2▲ 240×1 topic
  18. Sedimentation2▲ 71×2 topics
  19. Uncertainty Analysis2▲ 240×1 topic
  20. Subduction2▲ 45×2 topics
  21. Fluvial Systems2▲ 101×1 topic
  22. Geodetic Measurements2▲ 35×2 topics
  23. Sequence Stratigraphy2▲ 101×1 topic
  24. Earthquakes2▲ 53×1 topic
  25. Plate Boundaries2▲ 53×1 topic
  26. Groundwater2▲ 47×4 topics
  27. Hydrology2▲ 31×2 topics
  28. Environmental Impacts2▲ 16×3 topics
  29. Paleoproductivity2▲ 78×1 topic
  30. Paleoredox2▲ 78×1 topic
  31. Electrical Resistivity Tomography1▲ 94×1 topic
  32. Magnetotelluric Imaging1▲ 94×1 topic
  33. Ecosystem Services1▲ 8.1×4 topics
  34. Manganese Oxides1▲ 101×1 topic
  35. Rare Earth Elements1▲ 22×1 topic
  36. Sea Level Rise1▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Glacier1▲ 58×1 topic
  38. Hydrogeology1▲ 64×2 topics
  39. Water Availability1▲ 58×1 topic
  40. Reactive Transport1▲ 45×2 topics

Which research topics does Minnesota Geological Survey publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis and Geological Modeling and Analysis.

Groundwater flow and contamination studies: 0 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem Services: 0 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 0 fractional worksGeological Modeling and Analysis: 0 fractional worksHemispheric Asymmetry in…0Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience: 0 fractional worksGeological Studies and Exploration: 0 fractional worksMarine and environmental studies: 0 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologi…0Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 0 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 0 fractional worksForensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies: 0 fractional works
Environmental EngineeringGlobal and Planetary ChangeMechanics of MaterialsGeochemistry and Petrology6 others

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

  1. 1 Groundwater flow and contamination studies Environmental Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  3. 3 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  4. 4 Geological Modeling and Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 0 works
  5. 5 Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  6. 6 Geological Studies and Exploration Geology 0 works
  7. 7 Marine and environmental studies Oceanography 0 works
  8. 8 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  9. 9 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 0 works
  10. 10 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Archeology 0 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 available13.5%not open86.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.1%domestic only86.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Minnesota Geological Survey's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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