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ÅF (Switzerland)

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Research works
17
fractional, all time
Citations
248
14.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
15%
world 40%
International
46%
world 18%
ÅF (Switzerland)

Not ranked overall: ÅF (Switzerland) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does ÅF (Switzerland) work in?

In all years, 88% of research at ÅF (Switzerland) is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (39%), Engineering (37%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 15 fractional works · 88.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 38.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 26.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 36.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 14.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKÅF (Switzerland)17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences4%

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

Its 4 domains and 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science738.6%
    2. Engineering636.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.9%
    4. Materials Science02.6%
    5. Computer Science02.0%
    6. Chemistry01.0%
    7. Energy01.0%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.7%
    1. Psychology13.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting00.8%
    3. Social Sciences00.5%
    1. Medicine13.3%
    2. Health Professions00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences03.0%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Who are the top researchers at ÅF (Switzerland)?

Ranked on the quality score, Jean Croisé lead among researchers whose main affiliation is ÅF (Switzerland).

  1. 1 Jean Croisé Switzerland · #4,587,608 worldwide 236 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at ÅF (Switzerland)

What are the most cited papers from ÅF (Switzerland)?

The most cited paper from ÅF (Switzerland) is "Evaluating the Volume of Porous Medium Investigated During Slug Tests" (Dominique Guyonnet, Shreyansh Mishra, John P. McCord, 1993), with 44 citations. Next come "Psychometric evaluation and validation of the German version of the Acute Stress Disorder Scale across two distinct trauma populations" (42) and "Factorial kriging analysis applied to geological data from petroleum exploration" (42).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Evaluating the Volume of Porous Medium Investigated During Slug Tests Dominique Guyonnet, Shreyansh Mishra, John P. McCord · Ground Water Jul 1993 44
2 Psychometric evaluation and validation of the German version of the Acute Stress Disorder Scale across two distinct trauma populations Susanne Helfricht, Markus Andreas Landolt, Hanspeter Moergeli et al. · Journal of Traumatic Stress 16 Sep 2009 42
3 Factorial kriging analysis applied to geological data from petroleum exploration Olivier Jaquet · Mathematical Geology Oct 1989 42
4 Analysis of Observation‐Well Response During Constant‐Head Testing Shreyansh Mishra, Dominique Guyonnet · Ground Water Jul 1992 41
5 Characterisation of the hydraulic properties within the EDZ around drifts at level −490m of the Meuse/Haute-Marne URL: A methodology for consistent interpretation of hydraulic tests S. Baechler, Jean-Marc Lavanchy, Gilles Armand et al. · Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C 2011 35
All 28 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does ÅF (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Dam Engineering and Safety, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, Research on Leishmaniasis Studies and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis.

Dam Engineering and Safety0Dam Engineering and Safety: 0 fractional worksGrief, Bereavement, and …0Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health: 0 fractional worksResearch on Leishmaniasi…0Research on Leishmaniasis Studies: 0 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 0 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease Studies: 0 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 0 fractional worksAnatomy and Medical Technology: 0 fractional worksGroundwater flow and contamination studies: 0 fractional worksRock Mechanics and Modeling: 0 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringClinical PsychologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMechanical Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Dam Engineering and Safety Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 0 works
  3. 3 Research on Leishmaniasis Studies Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  4. 4 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 0 works
  7. 7 Anatomy and Medical Technology Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Groundwater flow and contamination studies Environmental Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Rock Mechanics and Modeling Mechanics of Materials 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available15.1%not open84.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors46.2%domestic only53.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ÅF (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

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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 ÅF (Switzerland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000011% in 2023.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%ÅF (Switzerland)0.0000085% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of ÅF (Switzerland) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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