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Woodwell Climate Research Center

In research, Woodwell Climate Research Center stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,290 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Global and Planetary Change (Atmospheric Science is 35.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,928
of 22,385 · #2,459 all time
Rank in United States
#1,208
of 3,332
Research works
1.1k
▲ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
85k
76.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.19×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
42%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Woodwell Climate Research Center

What is Woodwell Climate Research Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #2,290 of 10,670 20.2%139 #1313

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Woodwell Climate Research Center sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Woodwell Climate Research Center work in?

In 2022-now, 88% of research at Woodwell Climate Research Center is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (34%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (24%), Physics and Astronomy (22%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 155 fractional works · 88.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 60 fractional works · 34.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 25 fractional works · 14.2% of its workEcology: 13 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 43 fractional works · 24.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 27 fractional works · 15.4% of its workOceanography: 8 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeophysics: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 39 fractional works · 22.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 25 fractional works · 14.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 9 fractional works · 5.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInstrumentation: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 4.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 6.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKWoodwell ClimateResearch Center176fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science6034.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4324.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy3922.3%
    4. Engineering74.1%
    5. Computer Science21.4%
    6. Mathematics21.0%
    7. Chemistry10.5%
    8. Energy00.2%
    9. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences84.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    1. Social Sciences31.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.8%
    3. Decision Sciences10.4%
    4. Psychology00.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Medicine21.2%
    2. Health Professions20.9%
    3. Nursing00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Woodwell Climate Research Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 35.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 27.2 works35×
  2. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 25.2 works28×
  3. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 25.1 works19×
  4. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 43.1 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 1.01× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15.57× its world share, 43 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.84× its world share, 60 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.84× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 10.04× its world share, 39 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 15.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.57×43 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy10.04×39 works
  3. Environmental Science6.84×60 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.01×8 works
  5. Mathematics0.84×2 works
  6. Decision Sciences0.39×1 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.39×2 works
  8. Health Professions0.33×2 works
  9. Chemistry0.32×1 works
  10. Engineering0.27×7 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×2 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.19×0 works
  13. Energy0.19×0 works
  14. Nursing0.19×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.18×2 works
  16. Neuroscience0.14×0 works
  17. Social Sciences0.13×3 works
  18. Psychology0.09×0 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.08×0 works
  20. Medicine0.06×2 works
  21. Materials Science0.04×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Woodwell Climate Research Center?

Ranked on the quality score, R. A. Houghton, S. J. Goetz and Brendan M. Rogers lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Woodwell Climate Research Center.

  1. 1 R. A. Houghton United States · #6,204 worldwide 76k citations · 485 works
  2. 2 S. J. Goetz United States · #10,948 worldwide 49k citations · 518 works
  3. 3 Brendan M. Rogers United States · #11,741 worldwide 14k citations · 342 works
  4. 4 Michael T. Coe United States · #17,000 worldwide 30k citations · 197 works
  5. 5 Daniel Curtis Nepstad United States · #19,404 worldwide 31k citations · 210 works
  6. 6 Eric A. Davidson United States · #20,583 worldwide 71k citations · 585 works
  7. 7 Jonathan Sanderman United States · #23,821 worldwide 20k citations · 254 works
  8. 8 Alessandro Baccini United States · #33,328 worldwide 17k citations · 105 works
  9. 9 Susan M. Natali United States · #47,975 worldwide 14k citations · 311 works
  10. 10 Marcia Nunes Macedo United States · #51,639 worldwide 8.5k citations · 133 works
All ranked researchers at Woodwell Climate Research Center

What are the most cited papers from Woodwell Climate Research Center?

The most cited paper from Woodwell Climate Research Center is "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change" (Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al., 2013), with 11,936 citations. Next come "Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change" (7,089) and "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole" (4,300).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al. · Science 14 Nov 2013 11,936
2 Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change Eric A. Davidson, Ivan August Janssens · Nature Open access Mar 2006 7,089
3 First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole Kazunori Akiyama et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access348 authors 9 Apr 2019 4,300
4 Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback Edward A. G. Schuur, Anthony David McGuire, Christina Schädel et al. · Nature Open access Apr 2015 3,927
5 Natural climate solutions Bronson W. Griscom et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 16 Oct 2017 3,490
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Woodwell Climate Research Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Arctic, Black Holes, Methane Emissions, Ecosystem Resilience and Permafrost.

▲ 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-now 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 Change62▲ 13×58 topics
  2. Remote Sensing29▲ 14×24 topics
  3. Hydrology21▲ 91×3 topics
  4. Arctic16▲ 79×4 topics
  5. Black Holes14▲ 82×3 topics
  6. Methane Emissions14▲ 149×2 topics
  7. Ecosystem Resilience12▲ 45×5 topics
  8. Permafrost12▲ 145×2 topics
  9. Carbon Feedback11▲ 182×1 topic
  10. Thawing11▲ 182×1 topic
  11. Accretion Disks9▲ 99×2 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields9▲ 75×2 topics
  13. Ocean Circulation9▲ 36×3 topics
  14. Galactic Center8▲ 104×2 topics
  15. Soil Properties8▲ 27×4 topics
  16. Sea Level Rise8▲ 36×3 topics
  17. Event Horizon Telescope8▲ 196×1 topic
  18. X-Ray Astronomy8▲ 196×1 topic
  19. Global Warming7▲ 9.3×11 topics
  20. Glacier7▲ 88×1 topic
  21. Water Availability7▲ 88×1 topic
  22. Water Quality7▲ 9.6×9 topics
  23. Biodiversity Conservation7▲ 9.9×8 topics
  24. Cosmic Rays6▲ 70×2 topics
  25. Gravitational Waves6▲ 61×2 topics
  26. Neutrinos6▲ 70×2 topics
  27. Forest Fires6▲ 76×1 topic
  28. Wildfire Activity6▲ 76×1 topic
  29. Satellite Observations6▲ 33×3 topics
  30. Dark Matter6▲ 28×4 topics
  31. High-Energy Astrophysics6▲ 120×1 topic
  32. Particle Acceleration6▲ 120×1 topic
  33. Cosmology5▲ 45×3 topics
  34. Microbial Communities5▲ 7.0×3 topics
  35. Star Formation5▲ 54×2 topics
  36. Data Assimilation5▲ 19×4 topics
  37. Shale Gas5▲ 25×2 topics
  38. Emissions5▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Hydraulic Fracturing5▲ 26×2 topics
  40. Atmospheric5▲ 58×1 topic

Which research topics does Woodwell Climate Research Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate change and permafrost, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Cryospheric studies and observations and Fire effects on ecosystems.

Climate change and permafrost: 11 fractional worksAstrophysical Phenomena and Observations: 8 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …7Cryospheric studies and observations: 7 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems6Fire effects on ecosystems: 6 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 6 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 5 fractional worksGalaxies: Formation, Evo…4Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena: 4 fractional worksPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research: 4 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 4 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 3 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceAstronomy and AstrophysicsGlobal and Planetary ChangeNuclear and High Energy Physics1 others

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

  1. 1 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 11 works
  2. 2 Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Astronomy and Astrophysics 8 works
  3. 3 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 7 works
  4. 4 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 6 works
  5. 5 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 6 works
  6. 6 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 5 works
  7. 7 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 works
  8. 8 Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 works
  9. 9 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 4 works
  10. 10 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 3 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 available41.6%not open58.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.1%domestic only69.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Woodwell Climate Research Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Woodwell Climate Research Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00057% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Woodwell Climate Research Center0.00067% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Woodwell Climate Research Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Woodwell Climate Research Center15.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 37.2% in 2011.

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