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Tellus Institute

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Research works
106
▲ 8% vs 2013–17
Citations
3.3k
31.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
28%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Tellus 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: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.89× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 2.14× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 4.88× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.90× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.72× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 14.46× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.28× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.93× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.19× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.42× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 14.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Tellus Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, M A Euritt lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tellus Institute.

  1. 1 M A Euritt United States · #1,143,040 worldwide 10 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Tellus Institute

Which keywords describe research at Tellus Institute?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Energy Transition, Environmental Impact, Sustainability Assessment and Environmental Policy.

▲ 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 Change18▲ 6.6×23 topics
  2. Sustainability14▲ 7.2×21 topics
  3. Greenhouse Gas Emissions14▲ 63×4 topics
  4. Renewable Energy12▲ 11×16 topics
  5. Energy Transition12▲ 109×3 topics
  6. Environmental Impact11▲ 7.8×10 topics
  7. Sustainability Assessment10▲ 86×5 topics
  8. Environmental Policy9▲ 54×3 topics
  9. Global Warming9▲ 23×5 topics
  10. Economic Impacts8▲ 115×1 topic
  11. Policy Instruments8▲ 156×1 topic
  12. Circular Economy6▲ 32×5 topics
  13. Life Cycle Assessment6▲ 34×6 topics
  14. Economic Growth6▲ 7.7×7 topics
  15. Carbon Footprint6▲ 124×2 topics
  16. Sustainable Development6▲ 4.8×14 topics
  17. Global Trade5▲ 35×3 topics
  18. Embodied Energy5▲ 136×1 topic
  19. Water Footprint5▲ 136×1 topic
  20. Waste Management4▲ 15×3 topics
  21. Energy Efficiency4▲ 5.0×5 topics
  22. Regional Development4▲ 14×2 topics
  23. EROI4▲ 110×1 topic
  24. Environmental Sustainability4▲ 29×1 topic
  25. Fossil Fuels4▲ 87×1 topic
  26. Sustainability Indicators4▲ 54×1 topic
  27. Environmental Management3▲ 13×4 topics
  28. Eco-Industrial Parks3▲ 233×1 topic
  29. Industrial Symbiosis3▲ 233×1 topic
  30. Water Resources3▲ 12×5 topics
  31. Resilience3▲ 6.8×3 topics
  32. Social-Ecological Systems3▲ 27×2 topics
  33. Consumption3▲ 75×1 topic
  34. Rebound Effect3▲ 75×1 topic
  35. Adaptive Governance2▲ 139×1 topic
  36. Sustainability Transitions2▲ 127×1 topic
  37. Green Practices2▲ 44×1 topic
  38. Sustainable Supply Chain Management2▲ 44×1 topic
  39. Energy Consumption2▲ 14×3 topics
  40. Environmental Attitudes2▲ 37×2 topics

Which research topics does Tellus Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Misinformation and Its Impacts, Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

Misinformation and Its Impacts: 1 fractional worksAdaptive optics and wavefront sensing: 1 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 1 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysical Research: 0 fractional worksSustainable Development and Environmental Policy: 0 fractional worksClimate Change Policy and Economics: 0 fractional worksPolitics and Society in Latin America: 0 fractional worksGlobal Energy and Sustainability Research: 0 fractional worksBiomedical Text Mining and Ontologies: 0 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsAstronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentation6 others

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

  1. 1 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  2. 2 Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  3. 3 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  4. 4 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 0 works
  5. 5 Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  6. 6 Climate Change Policy and Economics Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Politics and Society in Latin America Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  8. 8 Global Energy and Sustainability Research Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 0 works
  9. 9 Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies Molecular Biology 0 works
  10. 10 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Health Information Management 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 available28.1%not open71.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.6%domestic only83.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Tellus Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 8% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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