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Oceanography Society

In research, Oceanography Society stands highest in Physical Sciences (#14,049 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Oceanography is 87.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#32,923
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#6,911
of 7,310
Research works
144
▼ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.5k
59.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.35×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
98%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Oceanography Society

What is Oceanography Society 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 #14,049 of 17,446 29.3%125

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

In all years, 87% of research at Oceanography Society is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (48%), Environmental Science (33%), Social Sciences (5%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 125 fractional works · 87.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 69 fractional works · 47.7% of its workOceanography: 44 fractional works · 30.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 14 fractional works · 9.8% of its workGeology: 6 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 48 fractional works · 33.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 19 fractional works · 13.4% of its workEcology: 14 fractional works · 9.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 8.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKOceanographySociety144fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences87%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences8%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences6947.7%
    2. Environmental Science4833.1%
    3. Engineering53.4%
    4. Computer Science21.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.7%
    6. Energy10.7%
    7. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Social Sciences74.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities21.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting21.0%
    4. Psychology10.8%
    5. Decision Sciences00.3%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences32.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.3%
    1. Medicine10.5%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Oceanography Society specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 87.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OceanographySubfield · 43.5 works87×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 68.6 works25×
← 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.

What are the most cited papers from Oceanography Society?

The most cited paper from Oceanography Society is "Biological Impacts of the 2013–2015 Warm-Water Anomaly in the Northeast Pacific: Winners, Losers, and the Future" (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Letícia Maria Cavole, Alyssa M. Demko et al., 2016), with 743 citations. Next come "Fisheries Management in a Changing Climate: Lessons From the 2012 Ocean Heat Wave in the Northwest Atlantic" (693) and "The Argo Program: Observing the Global Oceans with Profiling Floats" (618).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biological Impacts of the 2013–2015 Warm-Water Anomaly in the Northeast Pacific: Winners, Losers, and the Future Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Letícia Maria Cavole, Alyssa M. Demko et al. · Oceanography Open access 2016 743
2 Fisheries Management in a Changing Climate: Lessons From the 2012 Ocean Heat Wave in the Northwest Atlantic Katherine E. Mills, Andrew J. Pershing, Curtis Brown et al. · Oceanography Open access 2013 693
3 The Argo Program: Observing the Global Oceans with Profiling Floats Dean H. Roemmich, Gregory C. Johnson, Stephen C. Riser et al. · Oceanography Open access Jun 2009 618
4 An Overview of Fixed Passive Acoustic Observation Methods for Cetaceans David K. Mellinger, Kathleen M. Stafford, Sue E. Moore et al. · Oceanography Open access Dec 2007 586
5 True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection Kristen M. Thyng, Chad A. Greene, Robert D. Hetland et al. · Oceanography Open access 26 Aug 2016 574
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Which keywords describe research at Oceanography Society?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Ocean Circulation, Data Assimilation, Oceanic Modeling, Tidal Analysis, Remote Sensing, Global Warming and Ocean Acidification.

▲ 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 Change49▲ 13×29 topics
  2. Ocean Circulation24▲ 118×3 topics
  3. Data Assimilation16▲ 59×3 topics
  4. Oceanic Modeling15▲ 230×1 topic
  5. Tidal Analysis15▲ 230×1 topic
  6. Remote Sensing13▲ 8.4×10 topics
  7. Global Warming13▲ 25×4 topics
  8. Ocean Acidification12▲ 105×2 topics
  9. Fisheries Sustainability9▲ 48×2 topics
  10. Global Change8▲ 19×2 topics
  11. Arctic8▲ 55×4 topics
  12. CO2 Emissions8▲ 51×1 topic
  13. Harmful Algal Blooms8▲ 56×2 topics
  14. Marine Organisms8▲ 482×1 topic
  15. Ecosystem Management8▲ 68×1 topic
  16. Marine Fisheries8▲ 98×1 topic
  17. Dissolved Organic Matter8▲ 94×1 topic
  18. Eutrophication8▲ 36×1 topic
  19. Biogeography7▲ 14×3 topics
  20. Environmental Impact6▲ 3.1×5 topics
  21. Decline6▲ 148×1 topic
  22. Sea Ice6▲ 148×1 topic
  23. Ecosystem Functioning5▲ 18×3 topics
  24. Continental Margin5▲ 52×2 topics
  25. Crustal Structure5▲ 52×2 topics
  26. Deep-Sea Ecology5▲ 71×1 topic
  27. Marine Biodiversity5▲ 41×1 topic
  28. Holocene4▲ 19×3 topics
  29. Marine Ecosystems4▲ 54×2 topics
  30. Sea Level Rise4▲ 23×3 topics
  31. Bleaching4▲ 83×1 topic
  32. Coral Reefs4▲ 83×1 topic
  33. Ecosystem Services4▲ 8.1×3 topics
  34. Population Dynamics4▲ 9.0×3 topics
  35. Sea Level4▲ 19×2 topics
  36. Tropical Cyclones4▲ 46×2 topics
  37. Climate Modeling4▲ 37×1 topic
  38. Extreme Events4▲ 30×1 topic
  39. Greenhouse Gas Emissions4▲ 13×2 topics
  40. Shale Gas4▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does Oceanography Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine animal studies overview, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics and Turtle Biology and Conservation.

  1. 1 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 0 works
  2. 2 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 0 works
  3. 3 Turtle Biology and Conservation Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available97.8%not open2.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.7%domestic only91.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Oceanography Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 100% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020052010201520202025
grewheldshrank

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 Oceanography Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00000093% in 2023.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Oceanography Society0.00000017% in 2025200020102020

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

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