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Geological Studies and Exploration

Geological Studies and Exploration is a research topic within Geology. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the geological evolution, tectonic history, and petroleum potential of the Arctic region, focusing on topics such as sedimentary basins, crustal structure, seismic stratigraphy, and igneous provinces. It covers a wide range of geological phenomena including paleogeography, continental margins, and tectonic models for the evolution of the Arctic.

  • Arctic
  • geology
  • tectonics
  • petroleum
  • sedimentary basins
  • crustal structure
  • seismic stratigraphy
  • igneous province
  • paleogeography
  • continental margin
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geological Studies and Exploration

Which countries lead Geological Studies and Exploration research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (2.6k and 883 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2.6k works
  2. 2 China 883 works
  3. 3 United States 704 works
  4. 4 Germany 116 works
  5. 5 Canada 108 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 96 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 91 works
  8. 8 Azerbaijan 83 works
  9. 9 France 73 works
  10. 10 Norway 68 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.

Russia: 53.6%China: 18.4%United States: 14.7%Germany: 2.4%6 others listed: 10.8%54%largest
Russia2,573 · 53.6%China883 · 18.4%United States704 · 14.7%Germany116 · 2.4%6 others listed520 · 10.8%

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

Which institutions lead Geological Studies and Exploration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Geological Studies and Exploration research, followed by Lomonosov Moscow State University and China National Petroleum Corporation (China).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 1.4k works
  2. 2 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 168 works
  3. 3 China National Petroleum Corporation (China)China 155 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 71 works
  5. 5 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 62 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 58 works
  7. 7 Sinopec (China)China 54 works
  8. 8 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 47 works
  9. 9 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 45 works
  10. 10 Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geological Studies and Exploration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geological Studies and Exploration include Kostya S. Novoselov, Philippe Ciais and F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k citations
  5. 5 Markku Kulmala Finland 145k 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 Studies and Exploration?

The most cited paper in Geological Studies and Exploration is "The continental crust: its composition and evolution" (Brian Frederick Windley, 1986), with 11,005 citations. Next come "Composition of the Continental Crust" (6,466) and "Petrology of the sedimentary rocks" (3,689).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The continental crust: its composition and evolution Brian Frederick Windley · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors Feb 1986 11,005
2 Composition of the Continental Crust Roberta L. Rudnick, Shan Gao · Treatise on Geochemistry Book chapter 2003 6,466
3 Petrology of the sedimentary rocks Earle F. McBride · Geomorphology Jun 1991 3,689
4 Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt Brian Frederick Windley, Dmitriy V. Alexeiev, Wenjiao Xiao et al. · Journal of the Geological Society Open access 7 Dec 2006 3,433
5 The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart K.M. Cohen, Stanley C. Finney, P.L. Gibbard et al. · Episodes Open access Sep 2013 3,226
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Geological Studies and Exploration research done?

The largest centres of Geological Studies and Exploration research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Novosibirsk (Russia) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Syktyvkar, Yakutsk and Obninsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 952 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 417 works
  3. 3 NovosibirskRussia 238 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 192 works
  5. 5 IrkutskRussia 118 works
  6. 6 VladivostokRussia 103 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 82 works
  8. 8 BakuAzerbaijan 80 works
  9. 9 YakutskRussia 74 works
  10. 10 UfaRussia 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SyktyvkarRU · 54.8 works131×
  2. YakutskRU · 73.9 works99×
  3. ObninskRU · 20.3 works81×
  4. VladivostokRU · 103.1 works61×
  5. IrkutskRU · 117.7 works60×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Geological Studies and Exploration?

Among universities, judged by research, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China University of Petroleum, East China and Southwest Petroleum 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%20%40%mean 24.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China University of …China University of …Southwest Petroleum …China University of …
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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
1China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 67.136.6%24.0×45 +28.3%
2China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 63.931.1%14.2×32 +51.7%
3Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 62.333.1%15.0×23 +64.7%
4China University of GeosciencesChina 60.733.4%12.6×28 +43.3%
5Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 58.730.6%16.8×31 +57.5%
6University of OsloNorway 56.236.2%4.5×14 -31.9%
7Weatherford CollegeUnited States 55.215.6%8.9×58 +51.9%
8Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 55.13.7%41.0×168 +7.1%
9Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 52.00.0%48.2×62 +27.9%
10China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 49.928.5%18.7×26 -2.8%

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 Studies and Exploration, country by country

Is Geological Studies and Exploration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Studies and Exploration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Geological Studies and Exploration0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geological Studies and 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 Studies and Exploration10.4% 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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