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National Snow and Ice Data Center

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Research works
92
▼ 34% vs 2013–17
Citations
5.2k
56.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
29.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: National Snow and Ice Data Center 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 1.62× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 33.95× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.42× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 6.90× its world share, 0 worksDecision Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 34.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at National Snow and Ice Data Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Arctic, Sea Level Rise, Glacier, Water Availability 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 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 Change52▲ 21×38 topics
  2. Remote Sensing33▲ 32×21 topics
  3. Hydrology26▲ 250×3 topics
  4. Arctic23▲ 233×4 topics
  5. Sea Level Rise17▲ 148×3 topics
  6. Glacier16▲ 396×1 topic
  7. Water Availability16▲ 396×1 topic
  8. Ocean Circulation12▲ 92×3 topics
  9. Permafrost11▲ 277×2 topics
  10. Decline10▲ 409×1 topic
  11. Sea Ice10▲ 409×1 topic
  12. Carbon Feedback10▲ 334×1 topic
  13. Methane Emissions10▲ 203×2 topics
  14. Thawing10▲ 334×1 topic
  15. Machine Learning4▲ 2.3×10 topics
  16. Hydrological Modeling4▲ 24×5 topics
  17. Risk Factors4▲ 4.4×2 topics
  18. Big Data4▲ 7.6×4 topics
  19. Biomechanics4▲ 13×2 topics
  20. Skiing4▲ 185×1 topic
  21. Snowboarding4▲ 185×1 topic
  22. Ecology4▲ 19×3 topics
  23. Satellite Observations3▲ 32×3 topics
  24. Food Security3▲ 8.6×4 topics
  25. Vulnerability3▲ 21×2 topics
  26. Data Management3▲ 182×2 topics
  27. Arctic Indigenous Peoples3▲ 160×1 topic
  28. Traditional Knowledge3▲ 74×1 topic
  29. Workflow Management3▲ 33×2 topics
  30. Data Integration3▲ 12×5 topics
  31. Data Analytics2▲ 67×1 topic
  32. Information Technology2▲ 8.8×1 topic
  33. Semantic Web2▲ 19×3 topics
  34. Data Assimilation2▲ 13×4 topics
  35. Governance2▲ 8.2×1 topic
  36. Shipping2▲ 74×1 topic
  37. Semantic Web Services2▲ 25×2 topics
  38. Bioinformatics2▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Data Sharing2▲ 114×1 topic
  40. Scientific Data Management2▲ 147×1 topic

Which research topics does National Snow and Ice Data Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics and Research Data Management Practices.

Cryospheric studies and …1Cryospheric studies and observations: 1 fractional worksClimate change and permafrost: 0 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 0 fractional worksResearch Data Management Practices: 0 fractional worksWinter Sports Injuries and Performance: 0 fractional worksScientific Computing and…0Scientific Computing and Data Management: 0 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 0 fractional worksSoil Moisture and Remote Sensing: 0 fractional worksUrban Heat Island Mitigation: 0 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceInformation SystemsPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineInformation Systems and Management3 others

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

  1. 1 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 1 works
  2. 2 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 0 works
  3. 3 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 0 works
  4. 4 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 Winter Sports Injuries and Performance Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  6. 6 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 0 works
  7. 7 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 0 works
  8. 8 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  9. 9 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Urban Heat Island Mitigation Environmental Engineering 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 available43.1%not open56.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.7%domestic only72.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Snow and Ice Data Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% lower than in 2013–2017.

199520002005201020152020
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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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