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Water Quality and Resources Studies

Water Quality and Resources Studies is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 8k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% 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 water quality, hydrogeology, sediment analysis, and environmental impact assessment. It includes statistical methods for monitoring and analyzing water quality, as well as the use of various analytical techniques for chemical analysis. The papers also address the impact of human activities on water resources and provide guidelines for data reporting.

  • Water Quality
  • Hydrogeology
  • Groundwater
  • Sediment Analysis
  • Surface Water
  • Statistical Methods
  • Monitoring
  • Environmental Impact
  • Chemical Analysis
  • Data Reporting
Research works
8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
851
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
82% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Water Quality and Resources Studies

Which countries lead Water Quality and Resources Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (453 and 15 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 453 works
  2. 2 Canada 15 works
  3. 3 India 14 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 14 works
  5. 5 China 14 works
  6. 6 ?? 13 works
  7. 7 Germany 9 works
  8. 8 Australia 9 works
  9. 9 Brazil 8 works
  10. 10 France 6 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: 81.5%Canada: 2.8%India: 2.6%United Kingdom: 2.5%6 others listed: 10.6%82%largest
United States453 · 81.5%Canada15 · 2.8%India14 · 2.6%United Kingdom14 · 2.5%6 others listed59 · 10.6%

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

Which institutions lead Water Quality and Resources Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Geological Survey publishes the most Water Quality and Resources Studies research, followed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and University of Wisconsin–Madison.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 34 works
  2. 2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 10 works
  3. 3 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 7 works
  4. 4 Baylor UniversityUnited States 6 works
  5. 5 University of FloridaUnited States 6 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 Oregon State UniversityUnited States 5 works
  9. 9 Society of Economic GeologistsUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Water Quality and Resources Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Water Quality and Resources Studies include Donald B. Rubin.

  1. 1 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k 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 Water Quality and Resources Studies?

The most cited paper in Water Quality and Resources Studies is "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" (Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman, 1975), with 23,051 citations. Next come "Statistical Inference" (5,366) and "Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results" (4,951).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman Book chapter 1975 23,051
2 Statistical Inference George Casella, Roger L. Berger · Biometrics Open access Mar 1993 5,366
3 Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results Oliver Heiri, André F. Lotter, Gerry Lemcke · Journal of Paleolimnology Open access 2001 4,951
4 Environmental monitoring and assessment Elena Aguilar, Daniel Sousa, Amy V. Uhrin et al. Book chapterOpen access 5 Sep 2011 3,156
5 The unequal variance t-test is an underused alternative to Student's t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test Graeme D. Ruxton · Behavioral Ecology 17 May 2006 2,004
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Where is Water Quality and Resources Studies research done?

The largest centres of Water Quality and Resources Studies research in 2022-now are Reston (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Madison (United States) and Silver Spring (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Reston.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 RestonUnited States 27 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 20 works
  3. 3 MadisonUnited States 9 works
  4. 4 Silver SpringUnited States 7 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 6 works
  6. 6 WacoUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 GainesvilleUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 Chapel HillUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 AustinUnited States 6 works
  10. 10 Salt Lake CityUnited States 5 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RestonUS · 26.8 works191×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Water Quality and Resources Studies than the world average.

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Is Water Quality and Resources Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Water Quality and Resources Studies.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Water Quality and Resources Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Water Quality and Resources 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 counting10%20%Water Quality and Resources Studies11.2% 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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