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Science and Climate Studies

Science and Climate Studies is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 6.5k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to climate change, environmental science, and sustainability. It includes research on soil moisture, carbon cycle, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, permafrost degradation, and the use of GIS and remote sensing in environmental studies.

  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Science
  • GIS
  • Soil Moisture
  • Remote Sensing
  • Carbon Cycle
  • Biodiversity
  • Sustainability
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Permafrost Degradation
Research works
6.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
683
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Science and Climate Studies

Which countries lead Science and Climate Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (224 and 80 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 224 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 80 works
  3. 3 Germany 54 works
  4. 4 France 48 works
  5. 5 India 47 works
  6. 6 China 38 works
  7. 7 Australia 31 works
  8. 8 Canada 29 works
  9. 9 Italy 25 works
  10. 10 Russia 21 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.

United States: 37.6%United Kingdom: 13.5%Germany: 9.1%France: 8.0%6 others listed: 31.8%38%largest
United States224 · 37.6%United Kingdom80 · 13.5%Germany54 · 9.1%France48 · 8.0%6 others listed190 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Science and Climate Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Science and Climate Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 10 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 7 works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 6 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 5 works
  6. 6 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 5 works
  7. 7 University of ReadingUnited Kingdom 4 works
  8. 8 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom 4 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 4 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Science and Climate Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Science and Climate Studies include Philippe Ciais, F. Stuart Chapin and Herbert A. Simon.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  3. 3 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  4. 4 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k 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 Science and Climate Studies?

The most cited paper in Science and Climate Studies is "Dispersion on a Sphere" (Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1953), with 5,586 citations. Next come "Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system" (4,083) and "Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences" (3,049).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dispersion on a Sphere Ronald Aylmer Fisher · Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 7 May 1953 5,586
2 Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 7 Feb 2008 4,083
3 Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences Наоми Орескес, Kristin Shrader‐Frechette, Kenneth Belitz · Science 4 Feb 1994 3,049
4 A Simple Biosphere Model (SIB) for Use within General Circulation Models P. J. Sellers, Yale Mintz, Yogesh C. Sud et al. · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Open access Mar 1986 2,186
5 Encyclopedia of Volcanoes Gary L. Rowe · Eos 23 May 2000 2,093
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Where is Science and Climate Studies research done?

The largest centres of Science and Climate Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 17 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 16 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 12 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 9 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 9 works
  7. 7 BoulderUnited States 8 works
  8. 8 CanberraAustralia 7 works
  9. 9 HelsinkiFinland 7 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 7 works
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Is Science and Climate Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Science and Climate Studies.

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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 Science and Climate Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Science and Climate Studies 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%Science and Climate Studies11.1% 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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