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Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

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Research works
93
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
2.7k
29.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
34.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
48%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Pacific Coastal and Marine 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Chemistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 36.34× its world share, 13 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.94× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 36.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Sea-Level Rise, Sediment Transport, Wave Modeling, Climate Change Impacts, Coastal Dynamics and Shoreline Change.

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

All 29 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change9▲ 15×19 topics
  2. Remote Sensing4▲ 16×12 topics
  3. Sea-Level Rise4▲ 168×2 topics
  4. Sediment Transport4▲ 107×5 topics
  5. Wave Modeling3▲ 248×2 topics
  6. Climate Change Impacts3▲ 105×2 topics
  7. Coastal Dynamics2▲ 397×1 topic
  8. Shoreline Change2▲ 397×1 topic
  9. Global Carbon Budget2▲ 144×2 topics
  10. Coastal Protection2▲ 139×2 topics
  11. Ecosystem Services2▲ 21×3 topics
  12. Global Warming2▲ 20×4 topics
  13. Tectonics2▲ 67×3 topics
  14. Carbon Sequestration2▲ 110×1 topic
  15. Holocene2▲ 67×3 topics
  16. Mangrove Forests2▲ 227×1 topic
  17. Sea Level2▲ 77×2 topics
  18. Sea Level Rise2▲ 60×3 topics
  19. Tropical Cyclones2▲ 140×2 topics
  20. Ocean Acidification2▲ 91×3 topics
  21. Hurricanes1▲ 198×1 topic
  22. Sedimentation1▲ 111×2 topics
  23. Storm Surge1▲ 198×1 topic
  24. Glacial Cycles1▲ 90×1 topic
  25. Paleoclimatology1▲ 73×1 topic
  26. Coral Reefs1▲ 160×1 topic
  27. Marine Ecosystems1▲ 100×1 topic
  28. Fluvial Systems1▲ 185×1 topic
  29. Sequence Stratigraphy1▲ 185×1 topic

Which research topics does Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Coastal and Marine Dynam…2Coastal and Marine Dynamics: 2 fractional worksCoastal wetland ecosystem dynamics: 2 fractional worksTropical and Extratropic…1Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 1 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimato…1Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 1 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 1 fractional worksGeological formations and processes: 1 fractional worksAeolian processes and ef…1Aeolian processes and effects: 1 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 1 fractional worksSoil erosion and sediment transport: 1 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 1 fractional works
Earth-Surface ProcessesEcologyAtmospheric ScienceEnvironmental Chemistry2 others

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

  1. 1 Coastal and Marine Dynamics Earth-Surface Processes 2 works
  2. 2 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 2 works
  3. 3 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  4. 4 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  5. 5 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 1 works
  6. 6 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 1 works
  7. 7 Aeolian processes and effects Earth-Surface Processes 1 works
  8. 8 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 1 works
  9. 9 Soil erosion and sediment transport Soil Science 1 works
  10. 10 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 1 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 available47.5%not open52.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.3%domestic only72.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% lower than in 2013–2017.

20152020
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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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.