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Upper Midwest Water Science Center

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Research works
60
fractional, all time
Citations
1k
16.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
53%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Upper Midwest Water Science Center 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: 0.87× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemistry: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.73× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.63× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 13.06× its world share, 20 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 1.27× its world share, 0 worksNursingDecision Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 13.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Upper Midwest Water Science Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Water Resources, Bioaccumulation, Water Quality, Hydrological Modeling, Sediment Transport, Health Effects and Land Use Change.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 36 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 36 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change9▲ 11×24 topics
  2. Water Resources4▲ 61×4 topics
  3. Bioaccumulation4▲ 159×3 topics
  4. Health Effects3▲ 18×7 topics
  5. Hydrological Modeling3▲ 47×3 topics
  6. Sediment Transport3▲ 68×2 topics
  7. Water Quality3▲ 28×8 topics
  8. Land Use Change3▲ 34×3 topics
  9. Emissions3▲ 44×2 topics
  10. Mercury3▲ 322×1 topic
  11. Toxicology3▲ 52×1 topic
  12. Global Hydrology2▲ 117×1 topic
  13. Model Evaluation2▲ 62×1 topic
  14. Groundwater Flow2▲ 292×1 topic
  15. Sustainability2▲ 3.0×7 topics
  16. Transport Modeling2▲ 292×1 topic
  17. Toxicity2▲ 15×5 topics
  18. Remote Sensing2▲ 4.2×9 topics
  19. Reservoir Operation2▲ 156×1 topic
  20. Urbanization2▲ 13×2 topics
  21. Water Demand2▲ 156×1 topic
  22. Environmental Impact2▲ 2.9×12 topics
  23. Eutrophication2▲ 49×3 topics
  24. Oxidative Stress1▲ 2.8×3 topics
  25. Invasive Species1▲ 10×4 topics
  26. Global Distribution1▲ 63×2 topics
  27. Metal Toxicity1▲ 66×2 topics
  28. Brominated Flame Retardants1▲ 103×1 topic
  29. Conservation Challenges1▲ 75×1 topic
  30. Fisheries Sustainability1▲ 42×2 topics
  31. Flow Regulation1▲ 75×1 topic
  32. Freshwater Biodiversity1▲ 62×2 topics
  33. Habitat Fragmentation1▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons1▲ 70×1 topic
  35. Global Carbon Budget1▲ 46×2 topics
  36. River Restoration1▲ 81×2 topics

Which research topics does Upper Midwest Water Science Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Groundwater flow and contamination studies and Water resources management and optimization.

Mercury impact and mitigation studies: 3 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 2 fractional worksGroundwater flow and con…2Groundwater flow and contamination studies: 2 fractional worksWater resources manageme…2Water resources management and optimization: 2 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 1 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 1 fractional worksHydrology and Sediment T…1Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes: 1 fractional worksSoil and Water Nutrient Dynamics: 1 fractional worksSoil erosion and sediment transport: 1 fractional worksGroundwater and Isotope Geochemistry: 1 fractional works
Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisWater Science and TechnologyEnvironmental EngineeringOcean Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Mercury impact and mitigation studies Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 3 works
  2. 2 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 2 works
  3. 3 Groundwater flow and contamination studies Environmental Engineering 2 works
  4. 4 Water resources management and optimization Ocean Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  6. 6 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  7. 7 Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes Ecology 1 works
  8. 8 Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 1 works
  9. 9 Soil erosion and sediment transport Soil Science 1 works
  10. 10 Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry Geochemistry and Petrology 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 available53.2%not open46.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.9%domestic only87.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Upper Midwest Water Science Center's research output changed?

2020
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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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.