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Research in Sint-Genesius-Rode

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.5k
▲ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
24k
15.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
28.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1964-2026
63 years on the record
Sint-Genesius-Rode

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 Sint-Genesius-Rode?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Von Karman Institute for Fluid DynamicsNonprofit 1,530 #10,910

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 Sint-Genesius-Rode work in?

In 2022-now, 97% of research in Sint-Genesius-Rode is in Physical Sciences, 2% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (74%), Environmental Science (5%), Physics and Astronomy (4%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 272 fractional works · 96.8% of its workEngineering: 210 fractional works · 74.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 73 fractional works · 25.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 69 fractional works · 24.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 22 fractional works · 7.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 4.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 15 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 fractional works · 4.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 11 fractional works · 3.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 8 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNumerical Analysis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSint-Genesius-Rode281fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences97%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences2%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering21074.5%
    2. Environmental Science155.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy124.2%
    4. Mathematics113.9%
    5. Computer Science103.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences72.3%
    7. Materials Science41.4%
    8. Chemical Engineering31.2%
    9. Chemistry10.3%
    10. Energy00.2%
    1. Decision Sciences31.2%
    2. Social Sciences00.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    4. Psychology00.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
    1. Medicine20.8%
    2. Health Professions20.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Sint-Genesius-Rode strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Sint-Genesius-Rode is most concentrated in Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering (45.1× the world share in Computational Mechanics).

  1. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 62.1 works45×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 54.3 works20×
← 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 22 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: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemical Engineering: 2.82× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.42× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.91× its world share, 175 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.16× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.65× its world share, 10 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.82× its world share, 10 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 1.43× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering4.91×175 works
  2. Mathematics3.65×10 works
  3. Chemical Engineering2.82×2 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.82×10 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.43×3 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.42×5 works
  7. Environmental Science1.16×14 works
  8. Computer Science0.48×9 works
  9. Materials Science0.36×3 works
  10. Health Professions0.25×2 works
  11. Energy0.21×0 works
  12. Chemistry0.13×0 works
  13. Medicine0.05×2 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.03×0 works
  17. Psychology0.03×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.01×0 works
  19. Social Sciences0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Sint-Genesius-Rode?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Large-Eddy Simulation, Heat Transfer, Boundary Layer, Turbulent Flow, Vortex Dynamics, Separation Control, Turbulent Flows and Adaptive Mesh Refinement.

▲ 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. Large-Eddy Simulation82▲ 155×5 topics
  2. Heat Transfer70▲ 51×14 topics
  3. Boundary Layer31▲ 88×4 topics
  4. Turbulent Flow30▲ 91×4 topics
  5. Vortex Dynamics25▲ 77×3 topics
  6. Separation Control23▲ 286×2 topics
  7. Turbulent Flows22▲ 82×3 topics
  8. Adaptive Mesh Refinement21▲ 120×2 topics
  9. Film Cooling21▲ 487×1 topic
  10. High-Order Schemes21▲ 120×2 topics
  11. Turbine21▲ 487×1 topic
  12. Flow Control21▲ 133×2 topics
  13. Fluid Mechanics20▲ 103×2 topics
  14. Boundary Layer Transition20▲ 110×1 topic
  15. Particle Image Velocimetry20▲ 110×1 topic
  16. Combustion Instabilities20▲ 114×2 topics
  17. Chemical Kinetics19▲ 73×2 topics
  18. Spectral Analysis18▲ 73×2 topics
  19. Acoustic Sources17▲ 296×1 topic
  20. Jet Noise17▲ 296×1 topic
  21. Radial Basis Functions17▲ 86×2 topics
  22. Shock-Wave Interactions16▲ 148×1 topic
  23. Turbulence Modeling16▲ 148×1 topic
  24. CFD Simulation16▲ 49×4 topics
  25. Fluid-Structure Interaction16▲ 38×6 topics
  26. Premixed Combustion16▲ 143×1 topic
  27. Turbulent Flames16▲ 143×1 topic
  28. Aerodynamics12▲ 60×3 topics
  29. Numerical Simulation12▲ 15×9 topics
  30. Kinetic Theory11▲ 84×2 topics
  31. Air Quality10▲ 20×3 topics
  32. Multiphase Flow10▲ 42×4 topics
  33. Numerical Methods9▲ 37×4 topics
  34. Vibration Control9▲ 48×3 topics
  35. Boltzmann Equation8▲ 134×1 topic
  36. Rarefied Flows8▲ 134×1 topic
  37. Thermodynamic Analysis7▲ 40×3 topics
  38. Pedestrian Wind Comfort7▲ 55×1 topic
  39. Urban Microclimate7▲ 55×1 topic
  40. Wave Propagation7▲ 21×2 topics

What research is done in Sint-Genesius-Rode?

Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization: 19 fractional worksFluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows: 19 fractional worksCombustion and flame dyn…13Combustion and flame dynamics: 13 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dyna…12Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 12 fractional worksAerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows: 12 fractional worksGas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory: 7 fractional worksWind and Air Flow Studies7Wind and Air Flow Studies: 7 fractional worksRefrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies: 6 fractional worksAcoustic Wave Phenomena Research: 5 fractional worksHeat Transfer Mechanisms: 5 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringComputational MechanicsApplied MathematicsEnvironmental Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 19 works
  2. 2 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 19 works
  3. 3 Combustion and flame dynamics Computational Mechanics 13 works
  4. 4 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 12 works
  5. 5 Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows Aerospace Engineering 12 works
  6. 6 Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory Applied Mathematics 7 works
  7. 7 Wind and Air Flow Studies Environmental Engineering 7 works
  8. 8 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies Mechanical Engineering 6 works
  9. 9 Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research Biomedical Engineering 5 works
  10. 10 Heat Transfer Mechanisms Mechanical Engineering 5 works

Research output over time

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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%Sint-Genesius-Rode25.8% 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 42.6% in 1999.

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