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Karst Systems and Hydrogeology

Karst Systems and Hydrogeology is a research topic within Earth-Surface Processes. Science Explorer counts 8.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the hydrogeological characteristics, geohazards, and environmental impacts associated with karst landscapes. It covers topics such as groundwater modeling, cave hydrogeology, rocky desertification, sinkhole hazards, and geochemical processes in karst aquifers.

  • Karst
  • Groundwater
  • Hydrogeology
  • Geohazards
  • Modeling
  • Cave
  • Aquifer
  • Rocky Desertification
  • Sinkhole
  • Geochemistry
Research works
8.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
853
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Karst Systems and Hydrogeology

Which countries lead Karst Systems and Hydrogeology research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (647 and 184 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 647 works
  2. 2 United States 184 works
  3. 3 France 118 works
  4. 4 Italy 118 works
  5. 5 Spain 81 works
  6. 6 Germany 62 works
  7. 7 Brazil 52 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 51 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 48 works
  10. 10 India 40 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: 46.2%United States: 13.1%France: 8.5%Italy: 8.4%6 others listed: 23.8%46%largest
China647 · 46.2%United States184 · 13.1%France118 · 8.5%Italy118 · 8.4%6 others listed333 · 23.8%

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

Which institutions lead Karst Systems and Hydrogeology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Karst Systems and Hydrogeology research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Guizhou Normal University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 43 works
  3. 3 Guizhou Normal UniversityChina 29 works
  4. 4 Guizhou UniversityChina 23 works
  5. 5 China University of GeosciencesChina 21 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Geological SciencesChina 21 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 19 works
  8. 8 National Research CouncilItaly 16 works
  9. 9 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 14 works
  10. 10 China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Karst Systems and Hydrogeology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Karst Systems and Hydrogeology include Huanming Yang, Hung Chak Ho and Robert A. Holt.

  1. 1 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  2. 2 Hung Chak Ho China 180k citations
  3. 3 Robert A. Holt Canada 156k citations
  4. 4 Nicholas John White Thailand 138k citations
  5. 5 József Tóth France 120k 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 Karst Systems and Hydrogeology?

The most cited paper in Karst Systems and Hydrogeology is "Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years" (Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng, Richard Lawrence Edwards et al., 2008), with 2,014 citations. Next come "The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations" (1,766) and "Eustatic Controls on Clastic Deposition I—Conceptual Framework" (1,464).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng, Richard Lawrence Edwards et al. · Nature Feb 2008 2,014
2 The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations Hai Cheng, Richard Lawrence Edwards, Ashish Sinha et al. · Nature 29 Jun 2016 1,766
3 Eustatic Controls on Clastic Deposition I—Conceptual Framework Henry W. Posamentier, Macomb T. Jervey, Peter R. Vail · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks Book chapter 1988 1,464
4 The ecological significance of exchange processes between rivers and groundwater Matthias Brunke, Tom Gonser · Freshwater Biology Open access Feb 1997 1,427
5 Rocky desertification in Southwest China: Impacts, causes, and restoration Zhongcheng Jiang, Yanqing Lian, Xiaoqun Qin · Earth-Science Reviews 10 Feb 2014 1,197
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Karst Systems and Hydrogeology research done?

The largest centres of Karst Systems and Hydrogeology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guiyang (China), Wuhan (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guiyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 165 works
  2. 2 GuiyangChina 84 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 35 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 30 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 25 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 22 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 21 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 21 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 20 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuiyangCN · 84.1 works32×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Karst Systems and Hydrogeology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Karst Systems and Hydrogeology?

Among universities, judged by research, Guizhou University, Guizhou Normal University and China University of Geosciences 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%10%20%mean 14.56%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guizhou UniversityUniversity of Chines…Guizhou Normal Unive…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
1Guizhou UniversityChina 84.923.7%25.9×23 +84.0%
2Guizhou Normal UniversityChina 75.420.2%164.8×29 +278.7%
3China University of GeosciencesChina 74.818.3%27.2×22 +15.5%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55.823.6%3.6×10 +1.4%
5China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China 53.013.8%26.5×13 +1.4%
6Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 47.52.4%26.0×14 +58.7%
7Guangxi UniversityChina 46.317.8%9.4×10 -
8China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 43.37.4%9.6×13 +90.4%
9Hohai UniversityChina 41.211.9%9.3×10 +9.1%
10Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 40.26.5%18.0×12 +89.2%

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 Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, country by country

Is Karst Systems and Hydrogeology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Karst Systems and Hydrogeology.

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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 Karst Systems and Hydrogeology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0059% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Karst Systems and Hydrogeology 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%Karst Systems and Hydrogeology10.2% 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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