World Resources Institute

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where World Resources Institute 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Science takes 6.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Environmental ScienceField · 37.7 works6.6×

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

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.

• Energy 12.1×
• Environmental Science 6.6×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5.2×
• Decision Sciences 2.7×
• Social Sciences 1.4×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 1.0×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.9×
• Arts and Humanities 0.8×
• Nursing 0.7×
• Physics and Astronomy 0.7×
• Business, Management and Accounting 0.6×
• Engineering 0.5×
• Health Professions 0.3×
• Chemistry 0.2×
• Medicine 0.1×
• Psychology 0.1×
• Computer Science 0.1×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Jesse Ribot, Fred Stolle and Craig Hanson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is World Resources Institute.

1. 1 🇺🇸 Jesse Ribot United States · #34,304 worldwide 429 citations · 41 works
2. 2 🇺🇸 Fred Stolle United States · #109,961 worldwide 307 citations · 25 works
3. 3 🇺🇸 Craig Hanson United States · #163,350 worldwide 234 citations · 22 works
4. 4 🇺🇸 Darío Hidalgo United States · #579,032 worldwide 58 citations · 24 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Energy Transition, Biodiversity Conservation, Global Warming, Environmental Policy and Land Use Change.

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

1. 1 Global Energy and Sustainability Research Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 7 works
2. 2 Climate Change Policy and Economics Economics and Econometrics 7 works
3. 3 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 5 works
4. 4 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 4 works
5. 5 Climate Change Communication and Perception Sociology and Political Science 3 works
6. 6 Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2 works
7. 7 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration Sociology and Political Science 2 works
8. 8 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 2 works
9. 9 Climate Change and Geoengineering Global and Planetary Change 2 works
10. 10 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 2 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 84% higher than in 2013–2017.

• Georgetown University
• George Washington University
• United States Naval Research Laboratory
• Agricultural Research Service
• United States Department of Veterans Affairs
• United States Department of Agriculture
• American University
• Environmental Protection Agency