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Western Geographic Science Center

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Research works
75
▼ 28% vs 2013–17
Citations
2.5k
33.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
35.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
58%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Western Geographic 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: 1.30× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Chemistry: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.82× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 13.36× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Social Sciences: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 13.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Western Geographic Science Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Land Use Change, Ecosystem Resilience, Hydrological Modeling, Biodiversity, Global Change and Biomass Estimation.

▲ 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 Change33▲ 16×43 topics
  2. Remote Sensing21▲ 25×22 topics
  3. Land Use Change10▲ 47×5 topics
  4. Ecosystem Resilience10▲ 84×5 topics
  5. Hydrological Modeling7▲ 48×2 topics
  6. Machine Learning7▲ 4.4×10 topics
  7. Biodiversity7▲ 13×9 topics
  8. Global Change7▲ 30×4 topics
  9. Biomass Estimation7▲ 82×3 topics
  10. Sustainability7▲ 4.9×11 topics
  11. Invasive Species6▲ 15×8 topics
  12. Soil Properties6▲ 53×3 topics
  13. Conservation6▲ 16×9 topics
  14. Ecosystem Services6▲ 22×6 topics
  15. Sediment Transport6▲ 46×4 topics
  16. Model Evaluation6▲ 69×2 topics
  17. Biodiversity Conservation6▲ 27×5 topics
  18. Forest Fires5▲ 198×1 topic
  19. Wildfire Activity5▲ 198×1 topic
  20. Water Resources5▲ 30×5 topics
  21. Climate5▲ 89×2 topics
  22. Ecosystem5▲ 46×3 topics
  23. Water Quality5▲ 16×7 topics
  24. Phenology5▲ 159×1 topic
  25. Vegetation Monitoring5▲ 159×1 topic
  26. Urbanization5▲ 20×2 topics
  27. Social-Ecological Systems4▲ 62×3 topics
  28. Resilience4▲ 14×3 topics
  29. Global Hydrology4▲ 90×1 topic
  30. Uncertainty Assessment4▲ 90×1 topic
  31. Global Impact4▲ 44×1 topic
  32. Global Warming4▲ 14×7 topics
  33. Spatial Dynamics4▲ 96×1 topic
  34. Satellite Imagery4▲ 50×4 topics
  35. Drought3▲ 50×3 topics
  36. Evapotranspiration3▲ 58×2 topics
  37. Risk Perception3▲ 22×2 topics
  38. Sagebrush3▲ 198×1 topic
  39. Wildlife Habitat3▲ 198×1 topic
  40. Flood Risk3▲ 83×1 topic

Which research topics does Western Geographic Science Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Fire effects on ecosystems, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Disaster Management and Resilience.

Remote Sensing in Agriculture: 1 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 1 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment an…1Flood Risk Assessment and Management: 1 fractional worksDisaster Management and …1Disaster Management and Resilience: 1 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 1 fractional worksPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 1 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem S…0Land Use and Ecosystem Services: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 0 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Drought Analysis: 0 fractional works
EcologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeSociology and Political ScienceManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law1 others

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

  1. 1 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 1 works
  2. 2 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  3. 3 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  4. 4 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  5. 5 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  6. 6 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  7. 7 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  8. 8 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  9. 9 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Hydrology and Drought Analysis Global and Planetary Change 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 available58.3%not open41.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.4%domestic only86.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Western Geographic Science Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% lower than in 2013–2017.

2005201020152020
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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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