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Geological Formations and Processes Exploration

Geological Formations and Processes Exploration is a research topic within Geophysics. Science Explorer counts 9.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the tectonic evolution, geodynamic processes, and seismic structure of the Carpathian-Pannonian region, including the Alpine orogeny, Pannonian Basin formation, and Neogene continental collision. It explores crustal deformation, seismicity, and the geological history of the area during the Miocene period.

  • Carpathian-Pannonian region
  • tectonic evolution
  • Alpine orogeny
  • Pannonian Basin
  • geodynamic
  • Neogene
  • seismic structure
  • crustal deformation
  • Miocene
  • continental collision
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
962
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geological Formations and Processes Exploration

Which countries lead Geological Formations and Processes Exploration research?

By volume, Poland and Hungary publish the most (258 and 108 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 258 works
  2. 2 Hungary 108 works
  3. 3 United States 99 works
  4. 4 Germany 93 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 88 works
  6. 6 Russia 84 works
  7. 7 Czechia 76 works
  8. 8 Slovakia 55 works
  9. 9 Romania 53 works
  10. 10 Croatia 51 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.

Poland: 26.7%Hungary: 11.2%United States: 10.3%Germany: 9.7%6 others listed: 42.1%27%largest
Poland258 · 26.7%Hungary108 · 11.2%United States99 · 10.3%Germany93 · 9.7%6 others listed406 · 42.1%

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

Which institutions lead Geological Formations and Processes Exploration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Geological Formations and Processes Exploration research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 60 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 54 works
  3. 3 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 41 works
  4. 4 Polish Geological InstitutePoland 29 works
  5. 5 AGH University of KrakowPoland 27 works
  6. 6 University of ZagrebCroatia 27 works
  7. 7 University of BelgradeSerbia 26 works
  8. 8 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 26 works
  9. 9 Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia 25 works
  10. 10 Slovak Academy of SciencesSlovakia 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geological Formations and Processes Exploration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geological Formations and Processes Exploration include József Tóth, Christopher T. Russell and Rocco Romano.

  1. 1 József Tóth France 120k citations
  2. 2 Christopher T. Russell United States 117k citations
  3. 3 Rocco Romano Italy 116k citations
  4. 4 Maciej R. Górski Austria 112k citations
  5. 5 Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Netherlands 101k citations
  6. 6 William L. Griffin Australia 85k citations
  7. 7 Hai Cheng China 81k 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 Geological Formations and Processes Exploration?

The most cited paper in Geological Formations and Processes Exploration is "Subduction and Slab Detachment in the Mediterranean-Carpathian Region" (M. J. R. Wortel, Wim Spakman, 2000), with 1,646 citations. Next come "Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Chronostratigraphic Framework of European Basins" (1,504) and "The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units" (1,470).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Subduction and Slab Detachment in the Mediterranean-Carpathian Region M. J. R. Wortel, Wim Spakman · Science 8 Dec 2000 1,646
2 Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Chronostratigraphic Framework of European Basins Jan Hardenbol, Jacques Thierry, Martin B. Farley et al. · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks Book chapter 1999 1,504
3 The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units Stefan M. Schmid, Daniel Bernoulli, Bernhard Fügenschuh et al. · Swiss Journal of Geosciences Open access 24 Mar 2008 1,470
4 Inventory and Quantitative Assessment of Geosites and Geodiversity Sites: a Review José Brilha · Geoheritage Open access 14 Jan 2015 1,449
5 Tectonic map and overall architecture of the Alpine orogen Stefan M. Schmid, Bernhard Fügenschuh, Eduard Kissling et al. · Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae Open access May 2004 1,259
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Where is Geological Formations and Processes Exploration research done?

The largest centres of Geological Formations and Processes Exploration research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Krakow (Poland) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bratislava, Zagreb and Warsaw.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 112 works
  2. 2 BudapestHungary 66 works
  3. 3 KrakowPoland 60 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 53 works
  5. 5 PragueCzechia 45 works
  6. 6 ZagrebCroatia 42 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 42 works
  8. 8 BratislavaSlovakia 40 works
  9. 9 BelgradeSerbia 32 works
  10. 10 ViennaAustria 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BratislavaSK · 40.3 works34×
  2. ZagrebHR · 42.0 works29×
  3. WarsawPL · 111.5 works26×
  4. KrakowPL · 59.7 works26×
  5. BudapestHU · 65.7 works24×
  6. BelgradeRS · 31.6 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geological Formations and Processes Exploration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Geological Formations and Processes Exploration?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Lisbon, University of Belgrade and Eötvös Loránd University 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%50%100%mean 16.49%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LisbonUniversity of BelgradeEötvös Loránd Univer…University of Zagreb
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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
1University of LisbonPortugal 73.581.5%14.6×14 -15.6%
2University of BelgradeSerbia 63.119.9%30.8×26 +29.5%
3Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 53.615.7%68.1×26 -13.7%
4University of ZagrebCroatia 50.311.3%31.6×27 -6.8%
5AGH University of KrakowPoland 48.07.8%56.7×27 -50.0%
6Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 37.01.1%19.1×16 +52.7%
7University of WarsawPoland 35.14.0%31.3×20 -19.4%
8University of WrocławPoland 34.08.6%58.3×15 +5.7%
9University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 29.76.1%49.3×13 +5.3%
10Comenius University BratislavaSlovakia 29.08.9%51.8×12 -39.1%

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 Geological Formations and Processes Exploration, country by country

Is Geological Formations and Processes Exploration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Geological Formations and Processes Exploration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0053% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Geological Formations and Processes Exploration0.0061% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geological Formations and Processes Exploration 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%15%Geological Formations and Processes Exploration10.8% 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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