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Baker Hughes (United States)

In research, Baker Hughes (United States) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#4,161 of 12,888 worldwide), Engineering (#2,811 of 6,636 worldwide) and Ocean Engineering (#150 of 286 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics — Ocean Engineering is 63.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,461
of 28,054 · #10,399 all time
Rank in United States
#988
of 4,192
Research works
4.6k
▼ 29% vs 2013–17
Citations
31k
6.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
4%
world 28%

What is Baker Hughes (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #4,161 of 12,888 6.0%657 #6664
EngineeringField #2,811 of 6,636 6.3%519 #2450
Ocean EngineeringSubfield #150 of 286 5.9%243 #132
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #1,081 of 1,351 5.6%124 #925

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Baker Hughes (United States) 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#6,664 #4,161
  2. Engineering#2,450 #2,811
  3. Ocean Engineering#132 #150
  4. Mechanical Engineering#925 #1,081
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Baker Hughes (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 63.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 242.9 works63×
  2. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 124.0 works9.1×
  3. GeophysicsSubfield · 23.1 works8.9×
  4. Mechanics of MaterialsSubfield · 41.7 works7.9×
  5. EngineeringField · 518.5 works4.7×
← 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: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 2.23× its world share, 6 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.88× its world share, 10 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.34× its world share, 20 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.60× its world share, 30 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.61× its world share, 11 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.67× its world share, 518 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.71× its world share, 26 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.99× its world share, 26 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.54× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.47× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.23× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.39× its world share, 9 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.77× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.42× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 26 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Baker Hughes (United States)?

Ranked on the composite score, Piet Bakker, Stephen Morris and Qi Qu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Baker Hughes (United States).

  1. 1 Piet Bakker United States · #268,707 worldwide 100 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Stephen Morris United States · #304,540 worldwide 88 citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Qi Qu United States · #518,923 worldwide 54 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 I. Thomson United States · #645,382 worldwide 68 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 John Macpherson United States · #662,929 worldwide 25 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 Douglas A. Thom United States · #686,208 worldwide 47 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Gaurav Agrawal United States · #719,343 worldwide 46 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Graham Scott United States · #842,675 worldwide 1 citations · 55 works
  9. 9 John Gould United States · #1,181,591 worldwide 31 citations · 96 works
  10. 10 Zhongming Chen United States · #1,254,259 worldwide 30 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Baker Hughes (United States)

Which keywords describe research at Baker Hughes (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: CO2 Sequestration, Vibration Analysis, Nanoparticles, Rheological Properties, Drilling Fluids, Well Integrity, Hydraulic Fracturing and Machine Learning.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. CO2 Sequestration102▲ 72×4 topics
  2. Machine Learning97▲ 4.0×31 topics
  3. Vibration Analysis96▲ 48×5 topics
  4. Nanoparticles94▲ 10×11 topics
  5. Rheological Properties91▲ 69×2 topics
  6. Drilling Fluids91▲ 225×1 topic
  7. Well Integrity91▲ 225×1 topic
  8. Hydraulic Fracturing73▲ 89×2 topics
  9. Fracture Propagation71▲ 156×1 topic
  10. Shale Gas Reservoirs71▲ 156×1 topic
  11. Optimization62▲ 18×9 topics
  12. Fault Diagnosis59▲ 55×3 topics
  13. Predictive Maintenance59▲ 100×4 topics
  14. Data Analytics57▲ 165×2 topics
  15. Artificial Lift Systems57▲ 264×1 topic
  16. Electric Submersible Pumps57▲ 264×1 topic
  17. Data Assimilation56▲ 48×2 topics
  18. Ensemble Kalman Filter56▲ 74×2 topics
  19. Uncertainty Quantification55▲ 91×1 topic
  20. Well Placement55▲ 161×1 topic
  21. Renewable Energy28▲ 2.7×19 topics
  22. Numerical Simulation22▲ 10×8 topics
  23. Shale Gas21▲ 22×2 topics
  24. Pore Structure20▲ 21×3 topics
  25. Geophysical Imaging19▲ 48×2 topics
  26. Gas Permeability19▲ 25×2 topics
  27. Mudstones18▲ 32×1 topic
  28. Thermal Maturity18▲ 32×1 topic
  29. Risk Assessment18▲ 3.6×6 topics
  30. Heat Transfer17▲ 4.6×12 topics
  31. Technology17▲ 4.3×3 topics
  32. Performance Prediction16▲ 34×1 topic
  33. TBM16▲ 84×1 topic
  34. Porous Media16▲ 16×3 topics
  35. Oil and Gas16▲ 57×1 topic
  36. Subsea16▲ 227×1 topic
  37. Inverse Problems15▲ 19×2 topics
  38. Full-Waveform Tomography14▲ 45×1 topic
  39. Seismic Waveform Inversion14▲ 45×1 topic
  40. Surfactants12▲ 17×3 topics

Which research topics does Baker Hughes (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Oil and Gas Production Techniques and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Drilling and Well Engine…91Drilling and Well Engineering: 91 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 71 fractional worksOil and Gas Production Techniques: 57 fractional worksReservoir Engineering an…55Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 55 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration …18Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 18 fractional worksTunneling and Rock Mechanics: 16 fractional worksOffshore Engineering and Technologies: 16 fractional worksSeismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 14 fractional worksEnhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 10 fractional worksCO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions: 9 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsCivil and Structural Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 91 works
  2. 2 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 71 works
  3. 3 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 57 works
  4. 4 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 55 works
  5. 5 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 18 works
  6. 6 Tunneling and Rock Mechanics Civil and Structural Engineering 16 works
  7. 7 Offshore Engineering and Technologies Ocean Engineering 16 works
  8. 8 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 14 works
  9. 9 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 10 works
  10. 10 CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions Environmental Engineering 9 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 available4.1%not open95.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.9%domestic only80.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Baker Hughes (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 29% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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