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Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Atmospheric Ozone and Climate is a research topic within Atmospheric Science. Science Explorer counts 64k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of stratospheric chemistry, with a particular emphasis on the impacts of ozone depletion, changes in stratospheric water vapor, and the influence of the Brewer-Dobson circulation on climate. It also covers the role of remote sensing instruments and chemical transport models in understanding atmospheric composition and climate impact. The cluster highlights the significance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting the ozone layer and addresses the influence of solar cycle variations on stratospheric chemistry.

  • Stratospheric Water Vapor
  • Ozone Depletion
  • Tropopause Layer
  • Climate Impact
  • Brewer-Dobson Circulation
  • Atmospheric Composition
  • Remote Sensing Instruments
  • Chemical Transport Model
  • Solar Cycle Influence
  • Montreal Protocol
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Which countries lead Atmospheric Ozone and Climate research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 1.6k works
  3. 3 France 462 works
  4. 4 Russia 454 works
  5. 5 Germany 452 works
  6. 6 India 336 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 312 works
  8. 8 Japan 217 works
  9. 9 Italy 173 works
  10. 10 Spain 150 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 29.9%United States: 26.8%France: 7.8%Russia: 7.7%6 others listed: 27.8%30%largest
China1,761 · 29.9%United States1,580 · 26.8%France462 · 7.8%Russia454 · 7.7%6 others listed1,639 · 27.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Atmospheric Ozone and Climate research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Atmospheric Ozone and Climate research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 350 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 286 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 229 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 124 works
  5. 5 National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States 111 works
  6. 6 University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 87 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 78 works
  8. 8 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 66 works
  9. 9 Max Planck SocietyGermany 63 works
  10. 10 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 62 works

Who are the leading researchers in Atmospheric Ozone and Climate?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate include Michaël Grätzel, M. Weber and Xiaogang Wang.

  1. 1 Michaël Grätzel Switzerland 458k citations
  2. 2 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  3. 3 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  4. 4 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  5. 5 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  6. 6 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  7. 7 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k citations
  8. 8 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  9. 9 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  10. 10 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Atmospheric Ozone and Climate?

The most cited paper in Atmospheric Ozone and Climate is "The ERA5 global reanalysis" (Hans Hersbach et al., 2020), with 32,366 citations. Next come "The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)" (9,616) and "Self-consistent molecular orbital methods 25. Supplementary functions for Gaussian basis sets" (8,596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The ERA5 global reanalysis Hans Hersbach et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access 17 May 2020 32,366
2 The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) Ronald Gelaro et al. · Journal of Climate Open access May 2017 9,616
3 Self-consistent molecular orbital methods 25. Supplementary functions for Gaussian basis sets Michael J. Frisch, John Anthony Pople, J. Stephen Binkley · The Journal of Chemical Physics Apr 1984 8,596
4 The HITRAN2016 molecular spectroscopic database Iouli E. Gordon et al. · Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer Open access 4 Jul 2017 7,973
5 Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment Tami C. Bond et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Open access 22 Apr 2013 6,885
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Atmospheric Ozone and Climate research done?

The largest centres of Atmospheric Ozone and Climate research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Paris (France) and Boulder (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lanham, Greenbelt and Hampton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 602 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 190 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 174 works
  4. 4 BoulderUnited States 168 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 140 works
  6. 6 HefeiChina 113 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 94 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 94 works
  9. 9 TomskRussia 87 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LanhamUS · 25.0 works330×
  2. GreenbeltUS · 67.5 works100×
  3. HamptonUS · 33.4 works51×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Atmospheric Ozone and Climate than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Atmospheric Ozone and Climate?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Colorado Boulder and Harbin Institute of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harbin Institute of …Hong Kong University…Peking UniversityUniversity of Colora…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 70.222.0%6.6×17 +158.3%
2University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 64.613.9%30.2×87 -17.4%
3Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 61.741.1%1.4×14 +33.9%
4Peking UniversityChina 60.216.2%3.4×43 +11.1%
5Jinan UniversityChina 59.122.2%4.8×16 +53.4%
6Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 58.28.5%30.9×78 -1.3%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 57.310.1%6.0×62 +14.6%
8Fudan UniversityChina 57.116.6%3.4×34 +50.0%
9Nanjing UniversityChina 56.215.4%5.4×31 +17.6%
10Aarhus UniversityDenmark 54.317.3%3.8×21 +34.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, country by country

Is Atmospheric Ozone and Climate research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Atmospheric Ozone and Climate as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Atmospheric Ozone and Climate0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 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.

still counting5%10%Atmospheric Ozone and Climate9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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