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Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research

In research, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research stands highest in Environmental Science (#503 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#2,137 of 10,670 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#313 of 1,088 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 60.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,884
of 22,385 · #2,773 all time
Rank in Switzerland
#39
of 186
Research works
1.1k
▼ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
45k
41.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.16×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
83%
world 40%
International
58%
world 18%
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research

What is Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research 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
Environmental ScienceField #503 of 3,334 16.0%101 #403
Physical SciencesDomain #2,137 of 10,670 15.5%223 #1695
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #313 of 1,088 15.1%100 #273
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #141 of 294 12.2%69 #122

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research 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. Environmental Science#403 #503
  2. Physical Sciences#1,695 #2,137
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences#273 #313
  4. Atmospheric Science#122 #141
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 Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (37%), Environmental Science (37%), Social Sciences (6%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 290 fractional works · 81.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 132 fractional works · 37.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 94 fractional works · 26.6% of its workOceanography: 15 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPaleontology: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 131 fractional works · 37.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 65 fractional works · 18.2% of its workEcology: 15 fractional works · 4.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 12 fractional works · 3.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPollution: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 35 fractional works · 9.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 17 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKOeschger Centrefor Climate…354fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences82%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences10%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences13237.3%
    2. Environmental Science13137.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy102.8%
    4. Engineering92.4%
    5. Computer Science41.1%
    6. Energy20.6%
    7. Chemistry10.3%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Social Sciences205.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities72.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance51.5%
    4. Decision Sciences10.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    6. Psychology10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences174.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology41.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Medicine61.6%
    2. Health Professions30.7%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 60.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 94.2 works60×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 64.5 works24×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 132.3 works24×
← 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: 1.00× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 23.81× its world share, 132 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.45× its world share, 131 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.25× its world share, 10 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.69× its world share, 7 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 23.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.81×132 works
  2. Environmental Science7.45×131 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.25×10 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.00×17 works
  5. Arts and Humanities0.69×7 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.68×5 works
  7. Energy0.64×2 works
  8. Social Sciences0.44×20 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.39×1 works
  10. Health Professions0.27×2 works
  11. Chemical Engineering0.25×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×4 works
  13. Chemistry0.21×1 works
  14. Engineering0.16×8 works
  15. Computer Science0.14×4 works
  16. Veterinary0.12×0 works
  17. Nursing0.09×0 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.09×1 works
  19. Mathematics0.08×0 works
  20. Medicine0.08×6 works
  21. Psychology0.06×1 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works
  23. Neuroscience0.04×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.03×0 works
  25. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Michael Sigl, Raphael Neukom and Christoph Schwörer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research.

  1. 1 Michael Sigl Switzerland · #40,264 worldwide 13k citations · 294 works
  2. 2 Raphael Neukom Switzerland · #173,161 worldwide 6.4k citations · 187 works
  3. 3 Christoph Schwörer Switzerland · #215,516 worldwide 1.4k citations · 76 works
  4. 4 Paul D. Henne Switzerland · #333,712 worldwide 2.6k citations · 61 works
  5. 5 Andrey Martynov Switzerland · #407,699 worldwide 2.1k citations · 63 works
  6. 6 Tobias Erhardt Switzerland · #456,331 worldwide 2.1k citations · 173 works
  7. 7 Jurek Müller Switzerland · #535,713 worldwide 3.9k citations · 41 works
  8. 8 Elisa Vescovi Switzerland · #611,692 worldwide 2.5k citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Paul D. Zander Switzerland · #744,378 worldwide 681 citations · 65 works
  10. 10 Eric Samakinwa Switzerland · #879,647 worldwide 360 citations · 92 works
All ranked researchers at Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research

What are the most cited papers from Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research?

The most cited paper from Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research is "The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)" (Paula J. Reimer et al., 2020), with 7,945 citations. Next come "High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China" (4,848) and "Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms" (4,738).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP) Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon Open access Aug 2020 7,945
2 High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China Ru‐Jin Huang et al. · Nature Open access 16 Sep 2014 4,848
3 Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms James C. Orr et al. · Nature Sep 2005 4,738
4 The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project Gilbert P. Compo et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access 2011 3,728
5 Greening of the Earth and its drivers Zaichun Zhu et al. · Nature Climate Change Open access 22 Apr 2016 2,790
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Paleoclimatology, Remote Sensing, Extreme Events, Holocene, Sea Level and Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

▲ 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 Change164▲ 17×71 topics
  2. Global Warming64▲ 42×13 topics
  3. Paleoclimatology43▲ 146×2 topics
  4. Remote Sensing42▲ 9.6×19 topics
  5. Extreme Events39▲ 119×2 topics
  6. Holocene30▲ 76×3 topics
  7. Sea Level28▲ 86×2 topics
  8. Greenhouse Gas Emissions28▲ 28×6 topics
  9. Ocean Circulation27▲ 55×3 topics
  10. Glacial Cycles26▲ 114×1 topic
  11. Monsoon Dynamics26▲ 114×1 topic
  12. Hydrological Cycle25▲ 69×2 topics
  13. Climate Modeling23▲ 86×1 topic
  14. Precipitation Extremes23▲ 86×1 topic
  15. Hydrology21▲ 47×4 topics
  16. Sea Level Rise19▲ 43×3 topics
  17. Hydrological Modeling18▲ 21×5 topics
  18. Data Assimilation17▲ 29×4 topics
  19. Temperature Variability16▲ 260×1 topic
  20. Tree Rings16▲ 260×1 topic
  21. Ecosystem Resilience15▲ 28×5 topics
  22. Glacier14▲ 93×1 topic
  23. Water Availability14▲ 93×1 topic
  24. Drought14▲ 40×3 topics
  25. Evapotranspiration14▲ 48×2 topics
  26. Water Quality14▲ 9.7×10 topics
  27. Boundary Layer13▲ 29×2 topics
  28. Ensemble Kalman Filter13▲ 35×2 topics
  29. Probabilistic Forecasting13▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Satellite Observations13▲ 36×3 topics
  31. Convective Parameterization12▲ 62×1 topic
  32. Mesoscale Modeling12▲ 62×1 topic
  33. Vulnerability12▲ 15×6 topics
  34. Carbon Balance10▲ 60×1 topic
  35. Tree Mortality10▲ 60×1 topic
  36. Shale Gas10▲ 24×2 topics
  37. Emissions10▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Global Change9▲ 9.9×6 topics
  39. Natural Gas9▲ 29×2 topics
  40. Atmospheric9▲ 55×1 topic

Which research topics does Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Tree-ring climate responses and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 26 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 23 fractional worksTree-ring climate respon…16Tree-ring climate responses: 16 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …14Cryospheric studies and observations: 14 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 12 fractional worksPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 10 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environm…9Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 9 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 7 fractional worksClimate Change and Health Impacts: 7 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 6 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeWater Science and TechnologyHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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

  1. 1 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 26 works
  2. 2 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 23 works
  3. 3 Tree-ring climate responses Atmospheric Science 16 works
  4. 4 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 14 works
  5. 5 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 12 works
  6. 6 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 10 works
  7. 7 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 9 works
  8. 8 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 7 works
  9. 9 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 7 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 6 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 available83.0%not open17.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors58.0%domestic only42.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
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 Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research 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%30%Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research14.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 27.8% in 2009.

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