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Research in Petten

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Petten, Netherlands. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands and Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group.

Research institutions
2
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
4.3k
▼ 33% vs 2018-21
Citations
139k
32.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
24.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1961-2026
66 years on the record
Petten

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Petten?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Energy Research Centre of the NetherlandsResearch facility 2,526 #18,824
2Nuclear Research and Consultancy GroupCompany 609 #21,707

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Petten work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research in Petten is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (50%), Environmental Science (10%), Materials Science (9%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 202 fractional works · 85.9% of its workEngineering: 117 fractional works · 49.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 30 fractional works · 12.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 26 fractional works · 10.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 11 fractional works · 4.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 24 fractional works · 10.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 10 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 21 fractional works · 8.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 18 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMetals and Alloys: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 16 fractional works · 6.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 10 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Energy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 fractional works · 3.5% of its workRadiation: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCatalysis: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBioengineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 6.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 14 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMedicine: 12 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKPetten235fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences7%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering11749.7%
    2. Environmental Science2410.0%
    3. Materials Science218.9%
    4. Energy166.6%
    5. Physics and Astronomy83.5%
    6. Computer Science52.1%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences41.9%
    8. Chemical Engineering41.8%
    9. Chemistry31.4%
    10. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences52.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance41.6%
    3. Decision Sciences31.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting21.0%
    5. Psychology10.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
    1. Medicine124.9%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Nursing10.3%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Petten strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Petten is most concentrated in Aerospace Engineering (9.5× the world share in Aerospace Engineering).

  1. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 24.1 works9.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 5.12× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.86× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.18× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 6.89× its world share, 14 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.41× its world share, 111 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.96× its world share, 21 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.59× its world share, 20 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 1.67× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.53× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.75× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Energy, 6.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Energy6.89×14 works
  2. Chemical Engineering5.12×4 works
  3. Engineering3.41×111 works
  4. Materials Science2.59×20 works
  5. Environmental Science1.96×21 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy1.67×8 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.53×3 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.18×4 works
  9. Chemistry0.86×3 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.75×4 works
  11. Nursing0.63×1 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.34×2 works
  13. Veterinary0.28×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.23×4 works
  15. Medicine0.22×9 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×2 works
  17. Health Professions0.18×1 works
  18. Social Sciences0.18×5 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.13×0 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.08×0 works
  21. Psychology0.07×0 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×1 works
  23. Neuroscience0.02×0 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Petten?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Renewable Energy, CFD Simulation, Heat Transfer, Hydrogen Embrittlement, Molten Salt, Nuclear Reactor, Environmental Impact and Oxidation Resistance.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Renewable Energy43▲ 13×27 topics
  2. Sustainability14▲ 2.5×21 topics
  3. Environmental Impact14▲ 3.4×19 topics
  4. CFD Simulation12▲ 45×4 topics
  5. Heat Transfer10▲ 8.9×12 topics
  6. Hydrogen Embrittlement10▲ 52×3 topics
  7. Molten Salt10▲ 133×1 topic
  8. Nuclear Reactor10▲ 133×1 topic
  9. Energy Transition9▲ 26×3 topics
  10. Oxidation Resistance9▲ 36×2 topics
  11. Accident Tolerant Fuels9▲ 105×1 topic
  12. Density Functional Theory9▲ 36×2 topics
  13. Fuel Cladding9▲ 105×1 topic
  14. High Temperature Behavior9▲ 66×2 topics
  15. Large-Eddy Simulation8▲ 19×5 topics
  16. Energy Efficiency8▲ 3.5×13 topics
  17. Energy Storage8▲ 5.0×8 topics
  18. Solar Energy8▲ 10×5 topics
  19. Turbulent Flow7▲ 27×3 topics
  20. Greenhouse Gas Emissions6▲ 9.6×5 topics
  21. Life Cycle Assessment6▲ 9.3×4 topics
  22. Turbulent Flows6▲ 27×3 topics
  23. Aerodynamics6▲ 34×3 topics
  24. Air Quality6▲ 13×5 topics
  25. Smart Grid6▲ 6.7×3 topics
  26. Wind Power Integration6▲ 36×2 topics
  27. Thermal Management6▲ 7.2×5 topics
  28. District Heating5▲ 45×1 topic
  29. Energy Systems5▲ 42×1 topic
  30. Boundary Layer5▲ 18×3 topics
  31. Efficiency5▲ 7.5×3 topics
  32. Offshore Wind Farms5▲ 35×2 topics
  33. Reliability Evaluation5▲ 42×3 topics
  34. Weibull Distribution5▲ 48×1 topic
  35. Wind Turbine Wakes5▲ 75×1 topic
  36. Numerical Simulation5▲ 7.4×3 topics
  37. Solar Cells5▲ 10×5 topics
  38. Passive Systems4▲ 123×1 topic
  39. Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis4▲ 123×1 topic
  40. Hydrogen4▲ 22×2 topics

What research is done in Petten?

Nuclear reactor physics and engineering: 9 fractional worksNuclear Materials and Properties: 8 fractional worksIntegrated Energy Systems Optimization: 5 fractional worksWind Energy Research and Development: 5 fractional worksNuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics: 4 fractional worksWind and Air Flow Studies: 4 fractional worksHybrid Renewable Energy …4Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems: 4 fractional worksFusion materials and technologies: 4 fractional worksSmart Grid Energy Management: 3 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Appl…3Nuclear Physics and Applications: 3 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringMaterials ChemistryElectrical and Electronic EngineeringEnvironmental Engineering2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Aerospace Engineering 9 works
  2. 2 Nuclear Materials and Properties Materials Chemistry 8 works
  3. 3 Integrated Energy Systems Optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  4. 4 Wind Energy Research and Development Aerospace Engineering 5 works
  5. 5 Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics Aerospace Engineering 4 works
  6. 6 Wind and Air Flow Studies Environmental Engineering 4 works
  7. 7 Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems Energy Engineering and Power Technology 4 works
  8. 8 Fusion materials and technologies Materials Chemistry 4 works
  9. 9 Smart Grid Energy Management Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 works
  10. 10 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 3 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%60%Petten20.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 45.0% in 2014.

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