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Oregon State University

In research, Oregon State University stands highest in Environmental Science (#140 of 3,551 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#615 of 12,888 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#856 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography and Geophysics — Environmental Chemistry is 13.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#716
of 28,054 · #300 all time
Rank in United States
#142
of 4,192
Research works
55k
▲ 6% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.9M
34.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
31%
world 28%

What is Oregon State University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Environmental ScienceField #140 of 3,551 20.4%944 #22
Physical SciencesDomain #615 of 12,888 16.1%3,371 #268
Social SciencesDomain #856 of 10,521 21.1%1,036 #330
EcologySubfield #53 of 578 24.8%211 #18
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #337 of 3,409 20.3%561 #84
Life SciencesDomain #803 of 7,800 20.0%1,070 #308
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #132 of 1,209 15.7%488 #41
EngineeringField #812 of 6,636 14.3%977 #359
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #454 of 3,579 20.4%381 #199
Social SciencesField #998 of 6,365 23.3%477 #260

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Oregon State University 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Environmental Science#22 #140
  2. Physical Sciences#268 #615
  3. Social Sciences#330 #856
  4. Ecology#18 #53
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#84 #337
  6. Life Sciences#308 #803
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences#41 #132
  8. Engineering#359 #812
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#199 #454
  10. Social Sciences#260 #998
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Oregon State University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Chemistry takes 13.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 178.3 works13×
  2. OceanographySubfield · 185.1 works11×
  3. GeophysicsSubfield · 124.6 works5.9×
  4. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 81.9 works5.7×
  5. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 37.5 works5.2×
← 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: 1.95× its world share, 561 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.18× its world share, 381 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.63× its world share, 38 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.74× its world share, 73 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 16 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.04× its world share, 22 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.03× its world share, 98 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.80× its world share, 378 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.14× its world share, 488 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.65× its world share, 36 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.08× its world share, 977 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.14× its world share, 944 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.74× its world share, 157 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.97× its world share, 69 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.50× its world share, 202 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.58× its world share, 93 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.35× its world share, 404 worksMedicineNursing: 1.46× its world share, 43 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.39× its world share, 28 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.60× its world share, 104 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.47× its world share, 91 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 57 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.64× its world share, 83 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.21× its world share, 224 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.62× its world share, 477 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 5.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Oregon State University?

Ranked on the composite score, B. E. Law, Thomas G. Dietterich and Warren B. Cohen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Oregon State University.

  1. 1 B. E. Law United States · #3,773 worldwide 1.9k citations · 81 works
  2. 2 Thomas G. Dietterich United States · #7,364 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
  3. 3 Warren B. Cohen United States · #7,388 worldwide 1.7k citations · 60 works
  4. 4 Markus Kleber United States · #10,950 worldwide 1.1k citations · 65 works
  5. 5 Robert E. Kennedy United States · #12,222 worldwide 968 citations · 57 works
  6. 6 Margaret Burnett United States · #12,380 worldwide 773 citations · 87 works
  7. 7 Bernd R.T. Simoneit United States · #13,124 worldwide 1.8k citations · 160 works
  8. 8 Stephen J. Giovannoni United States · #15,533 worldwide 1.2k citations · 44 works
  9. 9 Peter U. Clark United States · #15,802 worldwide 1.2k citations · 44 works
  10. 10 Daniel J. Arp United States · #18,003 worldwide 830 citations · 42 works
All ranked researchers at Oregon State University

Which keywords describe research at Oregon State University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Microbial Communities, Methane Oxidation, Anaerobic, Gas Hydrates, Invasive Species, Hydrological Modeling and Sea Level Rise.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Change638▲ 3.9×98 topics
  2. Microbial Communities184▲ 7.1×10 topics
  3. Remote Sensing177▲ 2.4×31 topics
  4. Sustainability155◆ 1.05×84 topics
  5. Invasive Species139▲ 5.4×21 topics
  6. Methane Oxidation138▲ 28×2 topics
  7. Anaerobic138▲ 33×1 topic
  8. Gas Hydrates138▲ 33×1 topic
  9. Biodiversity136▲ 3.0×32 topics
  10. Environmental Impact121▲ 1.17×55 topics
  11. Hydrological Modeling114▲ 8.1×5 topics
  12. Sea Level Rise106▲ 14×3 topics
  13. Conservation105▲ 4.0×23 topics
  14. Geodetic Measurements93▲ 14×2 topics
  15. Solar Wind93▲ 17×2 topics
  16. Tomography89▲ 8.1×5 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services81▲ 3.5×13 topics
  18. Ionosphere81▲ 24×1 topic
  19. Magnetosphere81▲ 24×1 topic
  20. GRACE81▲ 26×1 topic
  21. groundwater depletion81▲ 26×1 topic
  22. Ecosystem Resilience80▲ 9.0×5 topics
  23. Global Warming77▲ 3.1×14 topics
  24. Habitat Fragmentation74▲ 5.6×5 topics
  25. Biodiversity Conservation74▲ 3.3×16 topics
  26. Seismic Noise73▲ 25×1 topic
  27. Surface Wave73▲ 25×1 topic
  28. Global Change70▲ 4.4×6 topics
  29. Population Dynamics67▲ 4.4×13 topics
  30. Climate Change Impacts61▲ 8.6×7 topics
  31. Phylogenetic Analysis61▲ 3.3×14 topics
  32. Sediment Transport58▲ 6.0×6 topics
  33. Soil Properties58▲ 5.5×7 topics
  34. Ocean Circulation52▲ 6.7×3 topics
  35. Ecosystem Functioning51▲ 4.5×7 topics
  36. Ecosystem51▲ 7.9×4 topics
  37. Fisheries Sustainability48▲ 8.9×2 topics
  38. Forest Fires43▲ 16×1 topic
  39. Wildfire Activity43▲ 16×1 topic
  40. Trophic Cascades43▲ 7.5×2 topics

Which research topics does Oregon State University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements and Seismic Waves and Analysis.

Methane Hydrates and Rel…138Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 138 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 81 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 81 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis73Seismic Waves and Analysis: 73 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 43 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 26 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 25 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 24 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 24 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 24 fractional works
Environmental ChemistryAstronomy and AstrophysicsOceanographyGeophysics5 others

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

  1. 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 138 works
  2. 2 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 81 works
  3. 3 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 81 works
  4. 4 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 73 works
  5. 5 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 43 works
  6. 6 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 26 works
  7. 7 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 25 works
  8. 8 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 24 works
  9. 9 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 24 works
  10. 10 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 24 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 available30.9%not open69.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.4%domestic only86.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Oregon State University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 6% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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