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Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development

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Research works
63
▲ 13% vs 2013–17
Citations
947
15.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
33.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
51%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development 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: 1.15× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Computer Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.75× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.98× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.12× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 7.46× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsNursing: 1.86× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.26× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Social Sciences: 1.14× 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, 7.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Sustainability, Hydrological Modeling, Adaptation, Land Use Change, Biodiversity Conservation 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 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 Change16▲ 9.4×32 topics
  2. Remote Sensing8▲ 12×21 topics
  3. Sustainability7▲ 6.1×12 topics
  4. Machine Learning5▲ 3.5×11 topics
  5. Hydrological Modeling5▲ 37×5 topics
  6. Adaptation4▲ 23×4 topics
  7. Land Use Change4▲ 19×4 topics
  8. Biodiversity Conservation3▲ 19×4 topics
  9. Global Warming3▲ 13×6 topics
  10. Urbanization3▲ 15×5 topics
  11. Social Networks3▲ 22×4 topics
  12. Satellite Imagery3▲ 46×2 topics
  13. Flood Risk3▲ 85×1 topic
  14. Surface Water Mapping3▲ 89×1 topic
  15. Vulnerability3▲ 27×4 topics
  16. Livelihoods2▲ 122×2 topics
  17. Pastoralists2▲ 149×1 topic
  18. Rangeland Degradation2▲ 149×1 topic
  19. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 27×3 topics
  20. Rural Development2▲ 12×4 topics
  21. Citizen Science2▲ 34×2 topics
  22. Sustainable Agriculture2▲ 12×2 topics
  23. Biomass Estimation2▲ 28×3 topics
  24. Migration2▲ 10×4 topics
  25. Trophic Cascades2▲ 27×2 topics
  26. Social-Ecological Systems2▲ 31×2 topics
  27. Agricultural Innovation2▲ 97×1 topic
  28. Ecosystem Services2▲ 8.1×2 topics
  29. Livelihood Diversification2▲ 131×1 topic
  30. Model Evaluation2▲ 26×2 topics
  31. Climate2▲ 36×2 topics
  32. Global Change2▲ 8.9×2 topics
  33. Global Impact2▲ 23×1 topic
  34. Spatial Dynamics2▲ 50×1 topic
  35. Agriculture2▲ 9.7×2 topics
  36. Authoritarianism2▲ 29×2 topics
  37. Phenology2▲ 63×1 topic
  38. Population Dynamics2▲ 8.5×3 topics
  39. Vegetation Monitoring2▲ 63×1 topic
  40. Animal Movement2▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ethics in medical practice, Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Ethics in medical practice: 0 fractional worksMedical Malpractice and Liability Issues: 0 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment an…0Flood Risk Assessment and Management: 0 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem S…0Land Use and Ecosystem Services: 0 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 0 fractional worksRemote Sensing in Agriculture: 0 fractional worksPrecipitation Measuremen…0Precipitation Measurement and Analysis: 0 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 0 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 0 fractional worksHealth and Wellbeing Research: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsPharmacyGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics2 others

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

  1. 1 Ethics in medical practice General Health Professions 0 works
  2. 2 Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Pharmacy 0 works
  3. 3 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  4. 4 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  5. 5 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  6. 6 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 0 works
  8. 8 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 0 works
  10. 10 Health and Wellbeing Research General Health Professions 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 available50.8%not open49.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors49.6%domestic only50.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 13% higher than in 2013–2017.

200020102020
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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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