Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Research facility · Xining · China

Qinghai Meteorological Institute

qhims.cnROR OpenAlex
Research works
109
▲ 310% vs 2018-21
Citations
598
5.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Qinghai Meteorological Institute

Not ranked overall: Qinghai Meteorological Institute is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Qinghai Meteorological Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research at Qinghai Meteorological Institute is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (39%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (29%), Computer Science (10%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 39 fractional works · 90.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 38.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 8 fractional works · 18.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 9.1% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 fractional works · 28.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 12 fractional works · 27.0% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 10.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 8.2% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKQinghaiMeteorological…43fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences2%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1738.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1228.9%
    3. Computer Science410.3%
    4. Engineering48.2%
    5. Materials Science12.4%
    6. Energy01.0%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences35.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.9%
    3. Neuroscience00.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences11.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
    1. Medicine00.8%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 1.24× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.32× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18.40× its world share, 12 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.12× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.55× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.81× its world share, 17 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 18.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences18.40×12 works
  2. Environmental Science7.81×17 works
  3. Computer Science1.32×4 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.24×2 works
  5. Energy1.12×0 works
  6. Materials Science0.68×1 works
  7. Engineering0.55×4 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.37×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.21×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.17×0 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.17×0 works
  12. Neuroscience0.16×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.11×1 works
  14. Chemistry0.07×0 works
  15. Medicine0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Qinghai Meteorological Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Bingrong Zhou, Weixin Xu and Xiao Jian-she lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Qinghai Meteorological Institute.

  1. 1 Bingrong Zhou China · #2,113,200 worldwide 748 citations · 54 works
  2. 2 Weixin Xu China · #3,080,559 worldwide 239 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Xiao Jian-she China · #3,789,479 worldwide 85 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Qinghai Meteorological Institute

What are the most cited papers from Qinghai Meteorological Institute?

The most cited paper from Qinghai Meteorological Institute is "Modeling grassland above-ground biomass based on artificial neural network and remote sensing in the Three-River Headwaters Region" (Shuxia Yang, Qisheng Feng, Tiangang Liang et al., 2017), with 241 citations. Next come "Multi-factor modeling of above-ground biomass in alpine grassland: A case study in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China" (139) and "High positive correlation between soil temperature and NDVI from 1982 to 2006 in alpine meadow of the Three-River Source Region on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau" (113).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Modeling grassland above-ground biomass based on artificial neural network and remote sensing in the Three-River Headwaters Region Shuxia Yang, Qisheng Feng, Tiangang Liang et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment 19 Oct 2017 241
2 Multi-factor modeling of above-ground biomass in alpine grassland: A case study in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China Tiangang Liang, Shuxia Yang, Qisheng Feng et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment 23 Aug 2016 139
3 High positive correlation between soil temperature and NDVI from 1982 to 2006 in alpine meadow of the Three-River Source Region on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Weixin Xu, Song Gu, Xinquan Zhao et al. · International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 6 Apr 2011 113
4 Carbon fluxes and environmental controls across different alpine grassland types on the Tibetan Plateau Yuyang Wang, Jingfeng Xiao, Yaoming Ma et al. · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 26 Oct 2021 105
5 Response of vegetation in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to global warming Weixin Xu, Xiaodong Liu · Chinese Geographical Science Jun 2007 83
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Qinghai Meteorological Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources, Sustainability and Machine Learning.

▲ 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 Change19▲ 16×32 topics
  2. Remote Sensing12▲ 23×18 topics
  3. Machine Learning5▲ 3.4×8 topics
  4. Sustainability5▲ 4.6×7 topics
  5. Hydrology5▲ 84×4 topics
  6. Land Use Change4▲ 35×6 topics
  7. Hydrological Modeling4▲ 42×5 topics
  8. Water Resources4▲ 40×3 topics
  9. Environmental Impact4▲ 5.0×7 topics
  10. Global Warming3▲ 17×6 topics
  11. Ocean Circulation3▲ 50×3 topics
  12. Sea Level Rise3▲ 55×3 topics
  13. Data Assimilation3▲ 41×3 topics
  14. China3▲ 71×2 topics
  15. Arctic3▲ 56×2 topics
  16. Probabilistic Forecasting3▲ 32×2 topics
  17. Soil Moisture3▲ 85×4 topics
  18. Boundary Layer3▲ 48×2 topics
  19. Convective Parameterization3▲ 104×1 topic
  20. Ensemble Kalman Filter3▲ 59×1 topic
  21. Glacier2▲ 132×1 topic
  22. Hydrological Cycle2▲ 57×2 topics
  23. Water Availability2▲ 132×1 topic
  24. Ecosystem Resilience2▲ 35×4 topics
  25. Hydrological Effects2▲ 1422×1 topic
  26. River Basins2▲ 1422×1 topic
  27. Extreme Events2▲ 54×2 topics
  28. Greenhouse Gas Emissions2▲ 17×3 topics
  29. Climate Modeling2▲ 62×1 topic
  30. Precipitation Extremes2▲ 62×1 topic
  31. Validation2▲ 51×2 topics
  32. Wavelet Analysis2▲ 84×2 topics
  33. Precipitation2▲ 90×2 topics
  34. Drought2▲ 42×2 topics
  35. Evapotranspiration2▲ 50×2 topics
  36. Methane Emissions2▲ 79×2 topics
  37. Model Evaluation2▲ 33×2 topics
  38. Estimation2▲ 95×1 topic
  39. Satellite2▲ 195×1 topic
  40. Sediment Transport2▲ 25×2 topics

Which research topics does Qinghai Meteorological Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Cryospheric studies and observations, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences and Climate variability and models.

Meteorological Phenomena…3Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 3 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …2Cryospheric studies and observations: 2 fractional worksEnvironmental and Agricu…2Environmental and Agricultural Sciences: 2 fractional worksClimate variability and …2Climate variability and models: 2 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 2 fractional worksClimate change and permafrost: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Computational T…2Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications: 2 fractional worksPlant Water Relations an…2Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 2 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed …2Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 2 fractional worksTechnology and Data Anal…1Technology and Data Analysis: 1 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceWater Science and TechnologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeArtificial Intelligence1 others

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

  1. 1 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 3 works
  2. 2 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 2 works
  3. 3 Environmental and Agricultural Sciences Water Science and Technology 2 works
  4. 4 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  5. 5 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 2 works
  6. 6 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 2 works
  7. 7 Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  8. 8 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  9. 9 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 2 works
  10. 10 Technology and Data Analysis Information Systems 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 available30.3%not open69.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.5%domestic only93.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Qinghai Meteorological Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 310% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting20052010201520202025
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 Qinghai Meteorological Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00018% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Qinghai Meteorological Institute0.00021% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Qinghai Meteorological Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

Other research institutions in Xining

All research institutions in Xining

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Qinghai Meteorological Institute. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.