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Water Research Foundation

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World rank, all time
#41,674
of 42,892
Rank in United States
#8,571
of 8,685
Research works
126
▼ 16% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.8k
13.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
16%
world 28%

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: 0.85× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemistry: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 4.48× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.35× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 11.08× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksMedicineNursing: 2.70× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.20× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.32× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.11× 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, 11.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Water Research Foundation?

Ranked on the composite score, Harry X. Zhang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Water Research Foundation.

  1. 1 Harry X. Zhang United States · #1,616,755 worldwide 15 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Water Research Foundation

Which keywords describe research at Water Research Foundation?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Sustainability, Water Resources, Sustainability Assessment, Public Perception, Life Cycle Assessment, Water Scarcity and Decentralized Treatment.

▲ 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 Change26▲ 7.9×36 topics
  2. Sustainability20▲ 8.7×19 topics
  3. Water Resources11▲ 37×7 topics
  4. Sustainability Assessment9▲ 67×3 topics
  5. Life Cycle Assessment8▲ 36×4 topics
  6. Public Perception8▲ 67×3 topics
  7. Remote Sensing8▲ 5.7×16 topics
  8. Water Scarcity8▲ 108×2 topics
  9. Decentralized Treatment8▲ 364×1 topic
  10. Policy8▲ 35×3 topics
  11. Wastewater Reuse8▲ 364×1 topic
  12. Machine Learning7▲ 2.6×13 topics
  13. Water Quality7▲ 14×9 topics
  14. Water7▲ 128×2 topics
  15. System Dynamics7▲ 78×2 topics
  16. Energy7▲ 247×1 topic
  17. Nexus7▲ 247×1 topic
  18. Reservoir Operation6▲ 148×1 topic
  19. Water Demand6▲ 148×1 topic
  20. Environmental Impact6▲ 3.5×20 topics
  21. Hydrological Modeling6▲ 22×2 topics
  22. Optimization5▲ 7.1×2 topics
  23. Renewable Energy5▲ 3.8×16 topics
  24. Leak Detection5▲ 145×1 topic
  25. Water Distribution Networks5▲ 145×1 topic
  26. Risk Perception4▲ 17×5 topics
  27. Sediment Transport4▲ 19×3 topics
  28. Monitoring4▲ 25×3 topics
  29. Pipeline4▲ 32×3 topics
  30. Water Treatment4▲ 24×4 topics
  31. Liquefaction4▲ 36×2 topics
  32. Tunnel4▲ 36×2 topics
  33. Finite Element Analysis3▲ 12×5 topics
  34. Global Warming3▲ 7.4×7 topics
  35. Land Use Change3▲ 8.5×3 topics
  36. Global Hydrology3▲ 38×1 topic
  37. Model Evaluation3▲ 21×1 topic
  38. Analysis3▲ 20×1 topic
  39. Microbial Ecology3▲ 14×3 topics
  40. Wastewater3▲ 24×3 topics

Which research topics does Water Research Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Water resources management and optimization, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Water-Energy-Food Nexus …2Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies: 2 fractional worksWater resources management and optimization: 2 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 1 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 1 fractional worksEnergy and Environment Impacts: 1 fractional worksGlobal Energy and Sustainability Research: 1 fractional worksWastewater Treatment and Reuse: 1 fractional worksFault Detection and Control Systems: 0 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis: 0 fractional worksClimate change impacts on agriculture: 0 fractional works
Water Science and TechnologyOcean EngineeringGlobal and Planetary ChangePollution5 others

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

  1. 1 Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies Water Science and Technology 2 works
  2. 2 Water resources management and optimization Ocean Engineering 2 works
  3. 3 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 1 works
  4. 4 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  5. 5 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 1 works
  6. 6 Global Energy and Sustainability Research Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 1 works
  7. 7 Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 Fault Detection and Control Systems Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 0 works
  10. 10 Climate change impacts on agriculture Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 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 available16.4%not open83.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.7%domestic only80.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Water Research Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% lower 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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