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Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes is a research topic within Oceanography. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on oceanic modeling, circulation dynamics, and the impact of various physical processes on the global ocean. It includes studies on tidal analysis, mesoscale eddies, mixed layer depth variations, global heat transport, data assimilation techniques, submesoscale processes, estuarine circulation, and the influence of climate change on ocean dynamics.

  • Oceanic Modeling
  • Ocean Circulation
  • Tidal Analysis
  • Mesoscale Eddies
  • Mixed Layer Depth
  • Global Heat Transport
  • Data Assimilation
  • Submesoscale Processes
  • Estuarine Circulation
  • Climate Change Impact
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Which countries lead Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.5k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 United States 1.6k works
  3. 3 France 516 works
  4. 4 Russia 364 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 353 works
  6. 6 India 351 works
  7. 7 Germany 306 works
  8. 8 Japan 246 works
  9. 9 Australia 220 works
  10. 10 Italy 211 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: 37.5%United States: 24.3%France: 7.7%Russia: 5.4%6 others listed: 25.1%38%largest
China2,521 · 37.5%United States1,629 · 24.3%France516 · 7.7%Russia364 · 5.4%6 others listed1,687 · 25.1%

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

Which institutions lead Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 349 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 244 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 216 works
  4. 4 Ocean University of ChinaChina 185 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina 176 works
  6. 6 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 121 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 100 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 95 works
  9. 9 University of California San DiegoUnited States 92 works
  10. 10 Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)China 83 works

Who are the leading researchers in Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes include Philippe Ciais, Kai You Wang and Xin Wu.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Xin Wu France 165k citations
  4. 4 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k 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 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes?

The most cited paper in Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes is "A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon Production" (Nathan J. Mantua, Steven R. Hare, Yuan Zhang et al., 1997), with 7,210 citations. Next come "The ERA‐40 re‐analysis" (7,164) and "A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean" (5,596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon Production Nathan J. Mantua, Steven R. Hare, Yuan Zhang et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access Jun 1997 7,210
2 The ERA‐40 re‐analysis S. Uppala et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access Oct 2005 7,164
3 A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean N. H. Saji, B. N. Goswami, Puthenveettil Narayana Menon Vinayachandran et al. · Nature Sep 1999 5,596
4 The regional oceanic modeling system (ROMS): a split-explicit, free-surface, topography-following-coordinate oceanic model Alexander F. Shchepetkin, James C. McWilliams · Ocean Modelling 28 Sep 2004 5,330
5 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Joseph Pedlosky, S. Leibovich · Journal of Applied Mechanics Sep 1981 4,693
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes research done?

The largest centres of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Qingdao (China), Guangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bay Saint Louis, Warnemünde and Qingdao.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 596 works
  2. 2 QingdaoChina 461 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 210 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 200 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 175 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 165 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 160 works
  8. 8 BoulderUnited States 90 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 89 works
  10. 10 SeattleUnited States 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Bay Saint LouisUS · 20.4 works242×
  2. WarnemündeDE · 23.8 works229×
  3. Qingdao51.2 works161×
  4. FalmouthUS · 79.3 works142×
  5. PanjimIN · 27.6 works123×
  6. PlouzanéFR · 24.4 works108×
  7. Sevastopol'RU · 32.8 works99×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Tasmania, Ocean University of China and University of California San Diego 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 12.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TasmaniaUniversity of Hawaiʻ…University of Califo…Ocean 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
1University of TasmaniaAustralia 67.315.5%10.9×19 +31.9%
2Ocean University of ChinaChina 66.88.9%49.5×185 +63.2%
3University of California San DiegoUnited States 64.211.8%12.8×92 -17.4%
4University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaUnited States 63.715.3%17.2×28 -27.9%
5Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 63.09.2%31.6×95 +27.1%
6Princeton UniversityUnited States 61.510.6%7.5×25 +3.2%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.313.2%6.2×76 +6.0%
8University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 59.614.6%11.6×40 -16.6%
9Xiamen UniversityChina 59.511.5%6.4×42 +51.6%
10Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.09.5%4.4×14 +45.8%

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 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, country by country

Is Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes0.035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes 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%Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes9.9% 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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