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Swiss Polar Institute

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Research works
42
▲ 426% vs 2013–17
Citations
686
16.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
96%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Swiss Polar Institute 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 2.18× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.35× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.97× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.29× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.35× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.04× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.59× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 8.04× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 9.66× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Swiss Polar Institute?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Hydrothermal Vents, Global Warming, Eutrophication, Harmful Algal Blooms, Dissolved Organic Matter, Oceanic Carbon Cycle and Molecular Dynamics.

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

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change3▲ 2.9×18 topics
  2. Deep Learning2▲ 2.1×15 topics
  3. Hydrothermal Vents2▲ 71×2 topics
  4. Neural Networks1▲ 3.2×12 topics
  5. Global Warming1▲ 8.5×2 topics
  6. Machine Learning1▲ 1.49×15 topics
  7. Mechanical Properties1▲ 3.3×8 topics
  8. Dissolved Organic Matter1▲ 50×1 topic
  9. Eutrophication1▲ 20×2 topics
  10. Harmful Algal Blooms1▲ 28×2 topics
  11. Oceanic Carbon Cycle1▲ 50×1 topic
  12. Molecular Dynamics1▲ 10×2 topics
  13. Photosynthesis1▲ 22×1 topic
  14. Prebiotic Chemistry1▲ 190×1 topic
  15. Quantum Coherence1▲ 27×1 topic
  16. RNA World1▲ 190×1 topic

Which research topics does Swiss Polar Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions.

Spectroscopy and Quantum…1Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies: 1 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering: 0 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics a…0Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 0 fractional worksMetamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications: 0 fractional worksGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Antenna and Met…0Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies: 0 fractional worksAntenna Design and Analysis: 0 fractional worksPolynomial and algebraic computation: 0 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer I…0EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 0 fractional works
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsOceanographyComputational Theory and MathematicsNuclear and High Energy Physics4 others

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

  1. 1 Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  2. 2 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 0 works
  3. 3 Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering Computational Theory and Mathematics 0 works
  4. 4 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear and High Energy Physics 0 works
  5. 5 Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 0 works
  6. 6 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  7. 7 Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Antenna Design and Analysis Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Polynomial and algebraic computation Computational Theory and Mathematics 0 works
  10. 10 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 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 available95.8%not open4.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors55.0%domestic only45.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Swiss Polar Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 426% higher 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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