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Oregon Water Science Center

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Research works
40
▼ 44% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.3k
32.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
40%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Oregon Water Science 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.

Who are the top researchers at Oregon Water Science Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Mackenzie K. Keith lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Oregon Water Science Center.

  1. 1 Mackenzie K. Keith ?? · #1,563,947 worldwide 17 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Oregon Water Science Center

Which keywords describe research at Oregon Water Science Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Water Quality, Sediment Transport, Land Use Change, Water Resources, Hydrological Modeling, Remote Sensing and Model Evaluation.

▲ 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 Change18▲ 17×30 topics
  2. Water Quality7▲ 42×10 topics
  3. Sediment Transport6▲ 96×3 topics
  4. Land Use Change5▲ 46×3 topics
  5. Water Resources5▲ 55×3 topics
  6. Hydrological Modeling5▲ 58×3 topics
  7. Remote Sensing4▲ 9.3×8 topics
  8. Model Evaluation4▲ 92×2 topics
  9. Eutrophication4▲ 62×4 topics
  10. Global Hydrology4▲ 152×1 topic
  11. Uncertainty Assessment4▲ 152×1 topic
  12. Freshwater Biodiversity4▲ 102×2 topics
  13. Invasive Species3▲ 15×7 topics
  14. River Restoration3▲ 173×2 topics
  15. Environmental Impact3▲ 6.2×6 topics
  16. Habitat Fragmentation3▲ 29×3 topics
  17. Groundwater3▲ 89×2 topics
  18. Fisheries Sustainability3▲ 55×2 topics
  19. Conservation Challenges3▲ 95×1 topic
  20. Flow Regulation3▲ 95×1 topic
  21. Fluvial Processes3▲ 193×1 topic
  22. Geomorphological Effects3▲ 147×2 topics
  23. Riparian Vegetation3▲ 193×1 topic
  24. Global Warming2▲ 16×6 topics
  25. Hyporheic Zone2▲ 166×1 topic
  26. Nutrient Cycling2▲ 66×1 topic
  27. Monitoring2▲ 39×3 topics
  28. Global Carbon Budget2▲ 65×2 topics
  29. Agricultural Sustainability2▲ 41×1 topic
  30. Harmful Algal Blooms2▲ 38×3 topics
  31. Risk Assessment2▲ 6.9×2 topics
  32. Soil Erosion2▲ 108×1 topic
  33. Arctic2▲ 36×2 topics
  34. Hydrogeology2▲ 93×1 topic
  35. Hydrology2▲ 34×4 topics
  36. Isotopes2▲ 93×1 topic
  37. Sediment Analysis2▲ 514×1 topic
  38. Stable2▲ 135×1 topic
  39. Bioaccumulation1▲ 30×3 topics
  40. Toxicity1▲ 8.2×3 topics

Which research topics does Oregon Water Science Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 1 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Sediment T…0Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes: 0 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR…0Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 0 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 0 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 0 fractional worksSoil erosion and sedimen…0Soil erosion and sediment transport: 0 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 0 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 0 fractional worksGroundwater flow and contamination studies: 0 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationWater Science and TechnologyEcologyEnvironmental Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  2. 2 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  3. 3 Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes Ecology 0 works
  4. 4 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 0 works
  6. 6 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  7. 7 Soil erosion and sediment transport Soil Science 0 works
  8. 8 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  9. 9 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Groundwater flow and contamination studies 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 available39.7%not open60.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.4%domestic only90.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Oregon Water Science Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 44% lower than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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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