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Airbus (Spain)

In research, Airbus (Spain) stands highest in Engineering (#4,352 of 9,532 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#11,196 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#29,098
of 34,923
Rank in Spain
#574
of 646
Research works
195
▼ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.9k
14.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
44%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Airbus (Spain)

What is Airbus (Spain) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
EngineeringField #4,352 of 9,532 11.2%130
Physical SciencesDomain #11,196 of 17,446 11.4%175

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Airbus (Spain) 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 fields of science does Airbus (Spain) work in?

In 2022-now, 89% of research at Airbus (Spain) is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (62%), Computer Science (11%), Environmental Science (8%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 41 fractional works · 88.9% of its workEngineering: 29 fractional works · 61.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 10 fractional works · 21.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 fractional works · 14.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 5.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 11.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 7.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 9.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAirbus (Spain)46fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences89%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences9%

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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2961.9%
    2. Computer Science511.3%
    3. Environmental Science47.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy23.5%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.4%
    6. Materials Science11.6%
    7. Mathematics00.4%
    1. Decision Sciences23.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting11.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities01.0%
    5. Social Sciences01.0%
    6. Psychology00.2%
    1. Medicine11.6%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
    1. Neuroscience00.1%
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.

Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.45× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.55× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 4.13× its world share, 29 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.57× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.56× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.90× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.70× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× 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, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering4.13×29 works
  2. Decision Sciences3.90×2 works
  3. Environmental Science1.57×4 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.56×2 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.55×1 works
  6. Computer Science1.45×5 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.70×1 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.55×1 works
  9. Materials Science0.47×1 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.33×0 works
  11. Mathematics0.31×0 works
  12. Health Professions0.08×0 works
  13. Medicine0.08×1 works
  14. Psychology0.08×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.07×0 works
  16. Neuroscience0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Airbus (Spain)?

Ranked on the quality score, Angel L. Díez-Vicente, Manuel Oliva and Edoardo Menga lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Airbus (Spain).

  1. 1 Angel L. Díez-Vicente Spain · #568,883 worldwide 1.9k citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Manuel Oliva Spain · #1,630,336 worldwide 399 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Edoardo Menga Spain · #4,555,314 worldwide 66 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Airbus (Spain)

What are the most cited papers from Airbus (Spain)?

The most cited paper from Airbus (Spain) is "ZnO-Reinforced Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) Bionanocomposites with Antimicrobial Function for Food Packaging" (Ana Maria Diez-Pascual, Angel L. Díez-Vicente, 2014), with 295 citations. Next come "The CHEOPS mission" (292) and "Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/ZnO Bionanocomposites with Improved Mechanical, Barrier and Antibacterial Properties" (267).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ZnO-Reinforced Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) Bionanocomposites with Antimicrobial Function for Food Packaging Ana Maria Diez-Pascual, Angel L. Díez-Vicente · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 20 May 2014 295
2 The CHEOPS mission W. Benz et al. · Experimental Astronomy Open access110 authors 5 Nov 2020 292
3 Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/ZnO Bionanocomposites with Improved Mechanical, Barrier and Antibacterial Properties Ana Maria Diez-Pascual, Angel L. Díez-Vicente · International Journal of Molecular Sciences Open access 17 Jun 2014 267
4 Wound Healing Bionanocomposites Based on Castor Oil Polymeric Films Reinforced with Chitosan-Modified ZnO Nanoparticles Ana Maria Diez-Pascual, Angel L. Díez-Vicente · Biomacromolecules 24 Aug 2015 255
5 Aerodynamic technologies to improve aircraft performance Adel Taha Mohamed Abbas, Javier de Vicente, Eusebio Valero · Aerospace Science and Technology 30 Oct 2012 233
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Airbus (Spain)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Collision Avoidance, Optimization, Climate Change, Genetic Algorithms, Air Quality, Alternative Fuels, Aviation and Particle Swarm Optimization.

▲ 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 34 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 34 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change3▲ 2.5×11 topics
  2. Machine Learning3▲ 1.91×8 topics
  3. Collision Avoidance2▲ 26×3 topics
  4. Optimization2▲ 9.3×4 topics
  5. Deep Learning2◆ 1.15×6 topics
  6. Genetic Algorithms2▲ 29×3 topics
  7. Neural Networks2▲ 2.5×6 topics
  8. Air Quality2▲ 18×2 topics
  9. Remote Sensing2▲ 2.9×6 topics
  10. Alternative Fuels2▲ 85×1 topic
  11. Aviation2▲ 134×1 topic
  12. Particle Swarm Optimization2▲ 27×2 topics
  13. Antenna Arrays1▲ 85×1 topic
  14. Differential Evolution1▲ 42×1 topic
  15. Embedded Systems1▲ 64×3 topics
  16. Power Electronics1▲ 8.7×4 topics
  17. Autonomous Vehicles1▲ 12×3 topics
  18. Flight Control1▲ 91×2 topics
  19. Heat Transfer1▲ 5.2×6 topics
  20. Risk Assessment1▲ 4.0×2 topics
  21. Thermal Management1▲ 8.3×3 topics
  22. Air Traffic Management1▲ 117×1 topic
  23. Artificial Neural Networks1▲ 5.3×2 topics
  24. Conflict Resolution1▲ 58×1 topic
  25. Hydrological Modeling1▲ 10×3 topics
  26. Mechanical Properties1▲ 2.3×8 topics
  27. Hard Real-Time Systems1▲ 197×1 topic
  28. Hybrid Rocket Propulsion1▲ 100×1 topic
  29. Multi-Agent Systems1▲ 11×2 topics
  30. Regression Rate Behavior1▲ 100×1 topic
  31. Resource Allocation1▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Scheduling Algorithms1▲ 113×1 topic
  33. Validation1▲ 25×2 topics
  34. Wireless Communications1▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Airbus (Spain) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies, Antenna Design and Optimization, Air Traffic Management and Optimization and Real-Time Systems Scheduling.

Advanced Aircraft Design…2Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies: 2 fractional worksAntenna Design and Optim…1Antenna Design and Optimization: 1 fractional worksAir Traffic Management and Optimization: 1 fractional worksReal-Time Systems Scheduling: 1 fractional worksRocket and propulsion systems research: 1 fractional worksSoil Moisture and Remote Sensing: 1 fractional worksMicrowave Engineering and Waveguides: 1 fractional worksManufacturing Process an…1Manufacturing Process and Optimization: 1 fractional worksPlasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics: 1 fractional worksAntenna Design and Analysis: 1 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAerospace EngineeringHardware and ArchitectureEnvironmental Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  2. 2 Antenna Design and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Real-Time Systems Scheduling Hardware and Architecture 1 works
  5. 5 Rocket and propulsion systems research Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Microwave Engineering and Waveguides Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 Plasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  10. 10 Antenna Design and Analysis Aerospace Engineering 1 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 available44.0%not open56.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.7%domestic only69.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Airbus (Spain)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Airbus (Spain) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00017% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Airbus (Spain)0.00011% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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