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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

In research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stands highest in Global and Planetary Change (#3 of 544 worldwide), Environmental Science (#35 of 3,334 worldwide) and Ecology (#11 of 600 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change (Atmospheric Science is 34.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#445
of 22,385 · #439 all time
Rank in United States
#113
of 3,332
Research works
45k
▼ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9M
43.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.15×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
38%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

What is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 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
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #3 of 544 12.9%782 #6
Environmental ScienceField #35 of 3,334 13.7%1,756 #43
EcologySubfield #11 of 600 15.7%430 #31
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #23 of 1,088 12.6%1,046 #30
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #7 of 294 10.7%590 #12
OceanographySubfield #4 of 158 15.2%375 #7
Physical SciencesDomain #314 of 10,670 12.9%3,238 #326
Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield #3 of 90 15.0%211 #10
Life SciencesDomain #444 of 6,403 15.5%296 #601
Social SciencesDomain #947 of 9,585 12.2%258 #656

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 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. Global and Planetary Change#6 #3
  2. Environmental Science#43 #35
  3. Ecology#31 #11
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences#30 #23
  5. Atmospheric Science#12 #7
  6. Oceanography#7 #4
  7. Physical Sciences#326 #314
  8. Nature and Landscape Conservation#10 #3
  9. Life Sciences#601 #444
  10. Social Sciences#656 #947
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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (44%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (26%), Engineering (6%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 3,784 fractional works · 82.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2,003 fractional works · 43.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 889 fractional works · 19.3% of its workEcology: 486 fractional works · 10.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 242 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 83 fractional works · 1.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 64 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 64 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 63 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 56 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPollution: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1,216 fractional works · 26.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 690 fractional works · 15.0% of its workOceanography: 427 fractional works · 9.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 264 fractional works · 5.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 70 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 52 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 34 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 26 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 42 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 94 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 93 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 71 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 353 fractional works · 7.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 172 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 75 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 48 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 149 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAquatic Science: 45 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 311 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 161 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 61 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEducation: 38 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 42 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 43 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 34 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 152 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMedicine: 104 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 79 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNational Oceanicand Atmospheric…4,600fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences82%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences7%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science2,00343.6%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1,21626.4%
    3. Engineering2645.7%
    4. Computer Science942.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy932.0%
    6. Materials Science370.8%
    7. Chemistry360.8%
    8. Mathematics180.4%
    9. Energy140.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering100.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1723.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1493.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology230.5%
    4. Neuroscience80.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
    1. Social Sciences1613.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance430.9%
    3. Decision Sciences340.7%
    4. Psychology310.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities210.5%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting210.5%
    1. Medicine1042.3%
    2. Health Professions370.8%
    3. Nursing60.1%
    4. Veterinary30.1%
    5. Dentistry10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 34.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 690.1 works34×
  2. OceanographySubfield · 426.9 works33×
  3. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 889.0 works25×
  4. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 242.3 works22×
  5. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 1,215.5 works17×
  6. EcologySubfield · 485.5 works13×
  7. Environmental ScienceField · 2,003.3 works8.8×
← 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: 0.68× its world share, 149 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.70× its world share, 172 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.49× its world share, 22 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.63× its world share, 10 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.49× its world share, 36 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 94 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 16.85× its world share, 1,216 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.33× its world share, 14 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.38× its world share, 264 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 8.77× its world share, 2,003 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 37 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 18 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.91× its world share, 93 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.31× its world share, 37 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 104 worksMedicineNursing: 0.26× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.53× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 21 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 21 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 34 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.43× its world share, 43 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.22× its world share, 31 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 161 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 16.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences16.85×1,216 works
  2. Environmental Science8.77×2,003 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy0.91×93 works
  4. Decision Sciences0.75×34 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.70×172 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.68×149 works
  7. Chemical Engineering0.63×10 works
  8. Veterinary0.53×3 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.49×22 works
  10. Chemistry0.49×36 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.43×43 works
  12. Engineering0.38×264 works
  13. Energy0.33×14 works
  14. Mathematics0.32×18 works
  15. Health Professions0.31×37 works
  16. Social Sciences0.28×161 works
  17. Computer Science0.26×94 works
  18. Nursing0.26×6 works
  19. Materials Science0.23×37 works
  20. Psychology0.22×31 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.16×21 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×21 works
  23. Medicine0.12×104 works
  24. Neuroscience0.10×8 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.05×1 works

Who are the top researchers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?

Ranked on the quality score, Pieter P. Tans, Fred C. Fehsenfeld and Lori Bruhwiler lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

  1. 1 Pieter P. Tans United States · #14,505 worldwide 56k citations · 448 works
  2. 2 Fred C. Fehsenfeld United States · #17,286 worldwide 31k citations · 366 works
  3. 3 Lori Bruhwiler United States · #36,613 worldwide 17k citations · 159 works
  4. 4 C. Mark Eakin United States · #38,311 worldwide 29k citations · 140 works
  5. 5 S. A. Montzka United States · #46,569 worldwide 36k citations · 504 works
  6. 6 Arthur L. Schmeltekopf United States · #47,388 worldwide 10k citations · 131 works
  7. 7 Christopher D. Elvidge United States · #54,465 worldwide 29k citations · 290 works
  8. 8 John I. Antonov United States · #91,433 worldwide 12k citations · 68 works
  9. 9 JOHN A. OGREN United States · #91,656 worldwide 23k citations · 363 works
  10. 10 William Skirving United States · #97,918 worldwide 14k citations · 133 works
All ranked researchers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

What are the most cited papers from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?

The most cited paper from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is "Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2" (Evan K Bolyen et al., 2019), with 25,165 citations. Next come "The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis" (23,779) and "The calculation of small molecular interactions by the differences of separate total energies. Some procedures with reduced errors" (22,220).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 Evan K Bolyen et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access112 authors 24 Jul 2019 25,165
2 The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis Norden Eh Huang, Zhengwei Shen, Steven Long et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Open access 8 Mar 1998 23,779
3 The calculation of small molecular interactions by the differences of separate total energies. Some procedures with reduced errors Samuel Francis Boys, Fernando Bernardi · Molecular Physics Oct 1970 22,220
4 An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design Karl E. Taylor, Ronald J. Stouffer, Gerald A. Meehl · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access 7 Oct 2011 14,860
5 Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization Veronika Eyring, Sandrine Bony, Gerald A. Meehl et al. · Geoscientific model development Open access 26 May 2016 12,432
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Which keywords describe research at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?

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

▲ 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 Change1,666▲ 13×93 topics
  2. Global Warming465▲ 24×15 topics
  3. Fisheries Sustainability431▲ 109×2 topics
  4. Ocean Circulation423▲ 67×3 topics
  5. Remote Sensing378▲ 6.7×37 topics
  6. Data Assimilation359▲ 48×4 topics
  7. Hydrological Cycle292▲ 62×2 topics
  8. Trophic Cascades284▲ 67×2 topics
  9. Ecosystem Management270▲ 100×2 topics
  10. Fish Population Dynamics267▲ 143×1 topic
  11. Marine Fisheries267▲ 143×1 topic
  12. Population Dynamics264▲ 22×11 topics
  13. Conservation263▲ 13×21 topics
  14. Boundary Layer238▲ 41×4 topics
  15. Greenhouse Gas Emissions234▲ 18×8 topics
  16. Extreme Events229▲ 54×2 topics
  17. Probabilistic Forecasting224▲ 25×3 topics
  18. Climate Modeling224▲ 65×1 topic
  19. Precipitation Extremes224▲ 65×1 topic
  20. Ensemble Kalman Filter222▲ 47×2 topics
  21. Convective Parameterization219▲ 83×1 topic
  22. Mesoscale Modeling219▲ 83×1 topic
  23. Invasive Species217▲ 11×17 topics
  24. Ocean Acidification185▲ 54×3 topics
  25. Sea Level Rise180▲ 31×3 topics
  26. Habitat Fragmentation177▲ 18×5 topics
  27. Satellite Observations172▲ 38×3 topics
  28. Air Quality172▲ 20×6 topics
  29. Freshwater Biodiversity167▲ 60×2 topics
  30. Acoustic Communication164▲ 69×2 topics
  31. Conservation Challenges164▲ 78×1 topic
  32. Flow Regulation164▲ 78×1 topic
  33. Tropical Cyclones163▲ 62×2 topics
  34. Predator-Prey Interactions151▲ 42×3 topics
  35. Anthropogenic Noise148▲ 114×1 topic
  36. Marine Mammals148▲ 114×1 topic
  37. Water Quality147▲ 8.0×17 topics
  38. Hydrological Modeling144▲ 13×5 topics
  39. Aquaculture144▲ 12×8 topics
  40. Marine Ecosystems142▲ 56×2 topics

Which research topics does National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and fisheries research, Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Marine and fisheries research: 267 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 224 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena…219Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 219 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…164Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 164 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 148 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 121 fractional worksTropical and Extratropic…117Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 117 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 97 fractional worksMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 93 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 88 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceNature and Landscape ConservationEcology1 others

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

  1. 1 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 267 works
  2. 2 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 224 works
  3. 3 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 219 works
  4. 4 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 164 works
  5. 5 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 148 works
  6. 6 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 121 works
  7. 7 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 117 works
  8. 8 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 97 works
  9. 9 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 93 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 88 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 available38.2%not open61.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.7%domestic only82.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 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%National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration10.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.5% in 1998.

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