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Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute

In research, Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#16,802 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Environmental Science (Environmental Science is 9.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#34,540
of 34,923
Rank in Slovakia
#58
of 60
Research works
174
▼ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.2k
12.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.86×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute

What is Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #16,802 of 17,446 4.7%142

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (49%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (25%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 81.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 20 fractional works · 49.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 11 fractional works · 27.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 7.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 fractional works · 24.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 8 fractional works · 18.9% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 10.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 10.4% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKSlovakHydrometeorologi…42fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences6%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science2049.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1024.9%
    3. Engineering24.5%
    4. Computer Science01.1%
    5. Energy00.8%
    6. Mathematics00.7%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.3%
    8. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences410.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    1. Social Sciences24.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting00.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
    5. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Health Professions01.2%
    2. Medicine01.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Science takes 9.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Environmental ScienceField · 20.4 works9.9×
← 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: 2.19× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15.85× its world share, 10 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.88× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.86× its world share, 20 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 15.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.85×10 works
  2. Environmental Science9.86×20 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.19×4 works
  4. Energy0.88×0 works
  5. Mathematics0.57×0 works
  6. Health Professions0.46×0 works
  7. Social Sciences0.32×2 works
  8. Engineering0.30×2 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.28×0 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.19×0 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.15×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.14×0 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.14×0 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.12×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×0 works
  16. Medicine0.06×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Lívia Labudová, Oliver Bochníček and Zora Snopková lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute.

  1. 1 Lívia Labudová Slovakia · #2,495,032 worldwide 394 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Oliver Bochníček Slovakia · #2,569,611 worldwide 1.9k citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Zora Snopková Slovakia · #2,848,487 worldwide 290 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Jozef Rozkošný Slovakia · #2,899,752 worldwide 117 citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Marta Mitošinková Slovakia · #2,976,261 worldwide 535 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Maroš Turňa Slovakia · #3,643,693 worldwide 194 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Pavel Šťastný Slovakia · #4,066,323 worldwide 1.7k citations · 35 works
  8. 8 Lotta Blaškovičová Slovakia · #4,132,328 worldwide 959 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Tereza Šedivá Slovakia · #4,273,470 worldwide 13 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Ladislav Markovič Slovakia · #4,814,261 worldwide 19 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute

What are the most cited papers from Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute?

The most cited paper from Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute is "European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern" (Annette Menzel et al., 2006), with 3,200 citations. Next come "Daily dataset of 20th‐century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment" (1,803) and "HISTALP—historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region" (1,208).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern Annette Menzel et al. · Global Change Biology Open access 6 Jul 2006 3,200
2 Daily dataset of 20th‐century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment Albert Klein Tank et al. · International Journal of Climatology Oct 2002 1,803
3 HISTALP—historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region Ingeborg Auer et al. · International Journal of Climatology 6 Jul 2006 1,208
4 Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective Günter Blöschl et al. · Hydrological Sciences Journal Open access205 authors 10 Jun 2019 1,148
5 A compilation of data on European flash floods Éric Gaumé et al. · Journal of Hydrology 22 Jan 2009 903
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Remote Sensing, Hydrological Modeling, Extreme Events, Water Resources, Drought and Evapotranspiration.

▲ 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 Change22▲ 19×34 topics
  2. Global Warming9▲ 50×8 topics
  3. Remote Sensing8▲ 16×12 topics
  4. Hydrological Modeling6▲ 64×4 topics
  5. Extreme Events5▲ 129×2 topics
  6. Water Resources5▲ 48×5 topics
  7. Drought4▲ 110×3 topics
  8. Evapotranspiration4▲ 131×2 topics
  9. Greenhouse Gas Emissions4▲ 38×3 topics
  10. Hydrological Cycle4▲ 97×2 topics
  11. Climate Modeling4▲ 125×1 topic
  12. Precipitation Extremes4▲ 125×1 topic
  13. Sediment Transport4▲ 53×3 topics
  14. Land Use Change3▲ 27×3 topics
  15. Model Evaluation3▲ 62×2 topics
  16. Global Hydrology3▲ 114×1 topic
  17. Hydrological3▲ 237×1 topic
  18. Monitoring3▲ 84×1 topic
  19. Uncertainty Assessment3▲ 114×1 topic
  20. Precipitation3▲ 129×2 topics
  21. Boundary Layer2▲ 47×2 topics
  22. Data Assimilation2▲ 34×1 topic
  23. Ensemble Kalman Filter2▲ 55×1 topic
  24. Ecosystem Resilience2▲ 32×2 topics
  25. Health Effects2▲ 7.4×4 topics
  26. Spatial Interpolation2▲ 99×2 topics
  27. Estimation2▲ 99×1 topic
  28. Satellite2▲ 202×1 topic
  29. Hydrology2▲ 30×2 topics
  30. Paleoclimatology2▲ 45×2 topics
  31. Water Quality2▲ 9.4×5 topics
  32. Air Quality2▲ 19×4 topics
  33. Forecasting1▲ 17×3 topics
  34. Sea Level Rise1▲ 26×3 topics
  35. Carbon Balance1▲ 61×1 topic
  36. Soil Properties1▲ 18×4 topics
  37. Tree Mortality1▲ 61×1 topic
  38. Groundwater1▲ 31×2 topics
  39. Disaster Management1▲ 18×2 topics
  40. Risk Perception1▲ 10×2 topics

Which research topics does Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Climate variability and models: 4 fractional worksHydrology and Drought Analysis: 3 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 3 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 2 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 2 fractional worksPlant Water Relations an…1Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 1 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 1 fractional worksTree-ring climate responses: 1 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 1 fractional worksHydrological Forecasting Using AI: 1 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeWater Science and TechnologyAtmospheric ScienceEnvironmental Engineering

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  2. 2 Hydrology and Drought Analysis Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  3. 3 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 3 works
  4. 4 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 2 works
  5. 5 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 2 works
  6. 6 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  7. 7 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  8. 8 Tree-ring climate responses Atmospheric Science 1 works
  9. 9 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 1 works
  10. 10 Hydrological Forecasting Using AI Environmental Engineering 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 available59.0%not open41.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.6%domestic only70.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute0.00014% in 20251990200020102020

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

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