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Agency for Defense Development

In research, Agency for Defense Development stands highest in Engineering (#1,413 of 5,901 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,108 of 10,670 worldwide) and Aerospace Engineering (#411 of 785 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Ocean Engineering (Aerospace Engineering is 15.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,757
of 22,385 · #7,183 all time
Rank in South Korea
#149
of 343
Research works
4.4k
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
48k
11.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.75×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Agency for Defense Development

What is Agency for Defense Development known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #1,413 of 5,901 7.2%445 #1259
Physical SciencesDomain #3,108 of 10,670 6.9%701 #2999
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #411 of 785 6.1%139 #421
Computer ScienceField #2,451 of 4,417 5.9%108 #2728
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #1,389 of 2,176 6.6%89 #1413

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Agency for Defense Development sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Engineering#1,259 #1,413
  2. Physical Sciences#2,999 #3,108
  3. Aerospace Engineering#421 #411
  4. Computer Science#2,728 #2,451
  5. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#1,413 #1,389
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Agency for Defense Development work in?

In 2022-now, 93% of research at Agency for Defense Development is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (59%), Computer Science (14%), Materials Science (7%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 778 fractional works · 93.3% of its workEngineering: 491 fractional works · 58.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 151 fractional works · 18.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 100 fractional works · 12.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 39 fractional works · 4.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 33 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 32 fractional works · 3.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 29 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 27 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 26 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 24 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 121 fractional works · 14.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 40 fractional works · 4.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 27 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 23 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSignal Processing: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 58 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 28 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCeramics and Composites: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 47 fractional works · 5.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 29 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInstrumentation: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAcoustics and Ultrasonics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 20 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOceanography: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCatalysis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 25 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAgency forDefense…834fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences93%Health Sciences2%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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering49158.9%
    2. Computer Science12114.5%
    3. Materials Science587.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy475.6%
    5. Environmental Science202.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences172.0%
    7. Chemistry101.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering91.0%
    9. Mathematics40.5%
    10. Energy20.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology111.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences91.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology30.3%
    4. Neuroscience20.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Decision Sciences81.0%
    2. Social Sciences40.4%
    3. Psychology20.3%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
    1. Medicine131.5%
    2. Health Professions20.2%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Agency for Defense Development specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Aerospace Engineering takes 15.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 151.2 works16×
  2. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 33.1 works6.9×
  3. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 26.6 works6.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.25× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.97× its world share, 9 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.75× its world share, 10 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.86× its world share, 121 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.30× its world share, 17 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.93× its world share, 491 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.48× its world share, 20 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.00× its world share, 58 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.53× its world share, 47 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.02× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.93×491 works
  2. Chemical Engineering2.97×9 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy2.53×47 works
  4. Materials Science2.00×58 works
  5. Computer Science1.86×121 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.30×17 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.02×8 works
  8. Chemistry0.75×10 works
  9. Environmental Science0.48×20 works
  10. Mathematics0.40×4 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×2 works
  12. Energy0.28×2 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.25×11 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×9 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.22×1 works
  16. Nursing0.18×1 works
  17. Neuroscience0.11×2 works
  18. Psychology0.09×2 works
  19. Medicine0.08×13 works
  20. Health Professions0.07×2 works
  21. Dentistry0.05×0 works
  22. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.03×0 works
  23. Social Sciences0.03×4 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Agency for Defense Development?

Ranked on the quality score, Junyeon Kim, Sangjo Kim and Il Sung Seo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Agency for Defense Development.

  1. 1 Junyeon Kim South Korea · #992,059 worldwide 2.5k citations · 66 works
  2. 2 Sangjo Kim South Korea · #1,309,230 worldwide 608 citations · 68 works
  3. 3 Il Sung Seo South Korea · #1,340,682 worldwide 802 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Junwon Seo South Korea · #1,348,630 worldwide 157 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Eunji Yoo South Korea · #1,380,112 worldwide 837 citations · 41 works
  6. 6 Jae‐Woong Choi South Korea · #1,509,932 worldwide 939 citations · 39 works
  7. 7 Eul Son Kang South Korea · #1,513,124 worldwide 1.4k citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Kiho Kwak South Korea · #1,536,446 worldwide 552 citations · 33 works
  9. 9 Taekyung Kim South Korea · #1,761,425 worldwide 412 citations · 34 works
  10. 10 Jin-Ik Lee South Korea · #1,871,770 worldwide 2.2k citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at Agency for Defense Development

What are the most cited papers from Agency for Defense Development?

The most cited paper from Agency for Defense Development is "Silica Aerogel: Synthesis and Applications" (Jyoti L. Gurav, In‐Keun Jung, Hyung‐Ho Park et al., 2010), with 754 citations. Next come "Robust regression methods for computer vision: A review" (646) and "Homing Guidance Law for Cooperative Attack of Multiple Missiles" (634).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Silica Aerogel: Synthesis and Applications Jyoti L. Gurav, In‐Keun Jung, Hyung‐Ho Park et al. · Journal of Nanomaterials Open access 2010 754
2 Robust regression methods for computer vision: A review Peter Meer, Doron Mintz, Azriel Rosenfeld et al. · International Journal of Computer Vision Apr 1991 646
3 Homing Guidance Law for Cooperative Attack of Multiple Missiles In-Soo Jeon, Jin-Ik Lee, Min-Jea Tahk · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics 31 Dec 2009 634
4 Optimal Guidance Laws with Terminal Impact Angle Constraint Chang-Kyung Ryoo, Hangju Cho, Min-Jea Tahk · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics Jul 2005 531
5 Highly Enhanced Gas Adsorption Properties in Vertically Aligned MoS2 Layers Soo‐Yeon Cho, Seon Joon Kim, Youhan Lee et al. · ACS Nano 27 Aug 2015 521
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Agency for Defense Development?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Optimization, Signal Processing, Heat Transfer, Numerical Simulation, Convolutional Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Mechanical Properties.

▲ 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 institution'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. Deep Learning76▲ 2.6×54 topics
  2. Machine Learning41▲ 1.49×32 topics
  3. Mechanical Properties28▲ 3.4×27 topics
  4. Neural Networks26▲ 2.1×22 topics
  5. Convolutional Neural Networks26▲ 4.3×10 topics
  6. Heat Transfer23▲ 5.7×14 topics
  7. Optimization23▲ 6.2×8 topics
  8. Signal Processing21▲ 18×4 topics
  9. Numerical Simulation20▲ 8.1×8 topics
  10. Wireless Sensor Networks20▲ 5.3×8 topics
  11. Genetic Algorithms19▲ 17×4 topics
  12. Large-Eddy Simulation16▲ 11×5 topics
  13. Security16▲ 2.9×13 topics
  14. Wireless Communications16▲ 11×5 topics
  15. Combustion Instabilities15▲ 30×2 topics
  16. Material Properties14▲ 17×2 topics
  17. Collision Avoidance13▲ 8.8×4 topics
  18. Sensor Fusion13▲ 15×3 topics
  19. Control13▲ 12×5 topics
  20. Detection13▲ 5.5×6 topics
  21. Particle Swarm Optimization12▲ 13×4 topics
  22. Polymer Composites12▲ 5.5×6 topics
  23. Microstructural Evolution12▲ 10×4 topics
  24. Metal Nanoparticles12▲ 8.8×6 topics
  25. Differential Evolution11▲ 20×2 topics
  26. Finite Element Method11▲ 14×4 topics
  27. Fluid Dynamics11▲ 9.7×4 topics
  28. Micro-Doppler Effect11▲ 47×1 topic
  29. Synthetic Aperture Radar11▲ 47×1 topic
  30. Antenna Arrays11▲ 39×1 topic
  31. Sparse Arrays11▲ 39×1 topic
  32. Failure Analysis11▲ 14×4 topics
  33. Thermal Decomposition11▲ 30×2 topics
  34. MIMO Radar11▲ 38×2 topics
  35. Ballistic Impact11▲ 21×2 topics
  36. Optimal Control11▲ 17×3 topics
  37. Product Development10▲ 25×2 topics
  38. Beamforming10▲ 12×4 topics
  39. Molecular Dynamics Simulations10▲ 28×2 topics
  40. Adaptive Mesh Refinement10▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Agency for Defense Development publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques, Antenna Design and Optimization, Rocket and propulsion systems research and Energetic Materials and Combustion.

Advanced SAR Imaging Tec…11Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques: 11 fractional worksAntenna Design and Optim…11Antenna Design and Optimization: 11 fractional worksRocket and propulsion systems research: 10 fractional worksEnergetic Materials and Combustion: 10 fractional worksUnderwater Vehicles and Communication Systems: 10 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 10 fractional worksEngineering Applied Research: 9 fractional worksUnderwater Acoustics Res…9Underwater Acoustics Research: 9 fractional worksGuidance and Control Systems: 9 fractional worksRadar Systems and Signal Processing: 8 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsOcean EngineeringComputational Mechanics2 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques Aerospace Engineering 11 works
  2. 2 Antenna Design and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 11 works
  3. 3 Rocket and propulsion systems research Aerospace Engineering 10 works
  4. 4 Energetic Materials and Combustion Mechanics of Materials 10 works
  5. 5 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 10 works
  6. 6 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 10 works
  7. 7 Engineering Applied Research Civil and Structural Engineering 9 works
  8. 8 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 9 works
  9. 9 Guidance and Control Systems Aerospace Engineering 9 works
  10. 10 Radar Systems and Signal Processing Aerospace Engineering 8 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 available31.9%not open68.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.4%domestic only92.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Agency for Defense Development's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Agency for Defense Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0035% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Agency for Defense Development0.0027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Agency for Defense Development 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, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Agency for Defense Development7.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.8% in 2005.

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