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North Carolina Geological Survey

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Research works
32
▲ 726% vs 2013–17
Citations
382
12.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
12%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: North Carolina 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Chemistry: 0.67× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.68× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15.84× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.08× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.18× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceSocial Sciences: 1.16× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 15.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at North Carolina Geological Survey?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Geological Mapping, Climate Change, Tectonics, GIS-based Modeling, Compositional Data Analysis, Mineral Prospectivity and Machine Learning.

▲ 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 34 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 34 words, with their numbers
  1. Remote Sensing7▲ 21×6 topics
  2. Climate Change5▲ 6.3×11 topics
  3. Geological Mapping5▲ 165×2 topics
  4. Tectonics5▲ 89×3 topics
  5. Machine Learning4▲ 5.7×2 topics
  6. GIS-based Modeling4▲ 155×2 topics
  7. Compositional Data Analysis4▲ 153×1 topic
  8. Mineral Prospectivity4▲ 153×1 topic
  9. Holocene3▲ 55×2 topics
  10. Sea Level3▲ 64×2 topics
  11. Glacial Cycles2▲ 73×1 topic
  12. Paleoclimatology2▲ 64×1 topic
  13. Plate Tectonics2▲ 36×2 topics
  14. Hazard2▲ 135×1 topic
  15. Landslide2▲ 135×1 topic
  16. Continental Margin2▲ 95×2 topics
  17. Crustal Structure2▲ 95×2 topics
  18. Geochronology2▲ 65×1 topic
  19. Zircon2▲ 65×1 topic
  20. Sedimentation2▲ 65×2 topics
  21. Arctic2▲ 45×1 topic
  22. Ecosystem Services2▲ 14×3 topics
  23. Geological Modeling2▲ 203×1 topic
  24. Uncertainty Analysis2▲ 203×1 topic
  25. geology2▲ 173×1 topic
  26. Community Resilience1▲ 37×2 topics
  27. Cultural Heritage1▲ 9.2×2 topics
  28. Fluvial Systems1▲ 90×1 topic
  29. Sequence Stratigraphy1▲ 90×1 topic
  30. Traditional Irrigation1▲ 293×1 topic
  31. Water Sustainability1▲ 293×1 topic
  32. Shale Gas1▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Soil Properties1▲ 22×2 topics
  34. Sediment Transport1▲ 19×3 topics

Which research topics does North Carolina Geological Survey publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Landslides and related hazards, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Archaeology and Natural History and Geological Modeling and Analysis.

Landslides and related hazards: 1 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 1 fractional worksArchaeology and Natural …1Archaeology and Natural History: 1 fractional worksGeological Modeling and …1Geological Modeling and Analysis: 1 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 0 fractional worksSeismology and Earthquake Studies: 0 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimato…0Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 0 fractional worksBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies: 0 fractional worksGeographic Information Systems Studies: 0 fractional worksMarine and environmental studies: 0 fractional works
Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawArtificial IntelligenceAnthropologyGeochemistry and Petrology5 others

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

  1. 1 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  2. 2 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  3. 3 Archaeology and Natural History Anthropology 1 works
  4. 4 Geological Modeling and Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 1 works
  5. 5 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  6. 6 Seismology and Earthquake Studies Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  7. 7 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 0 works
  8. 8 Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies Plant Science 0 works
  9. 9 Geographic Information Systems Studies Geography, Planning and Development 0 works
  10. 10 Marine and environmental studies Oceanography 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 available12.2%not open87.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.9%domestic only94.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has North Carolina Geological Survey's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 726% higher 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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