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Blue Bear (United Kingdom)

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Research works
11
▲ 224% vs 2018-21
Citations
188
17.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
16%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Blue Bear (United Kingdom)

Not ranked overall: Blue Bear (United Kingdom) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Blue Bear (United Kingdom) work in?

In all years, 91% of research at Blue Bear (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (54%), Computer Science (25%), Environmental Science (4%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 90.7% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 54.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 47.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 24.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 18.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBlue Bear (UnitedKingdom)11fractional works, all years
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences5%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering654.3%
    2. Computer Science324.6%
    3. Environmental Science04.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy04.0%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences02.2%
    6. Mathematics01.6%
    1. Psychology02.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities01.6%
    3. Social Sciences01.6%
    1. Medicine03.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 8.53× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 2.14× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 11.37× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 4.63× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 1.76× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 11.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics11.37×0 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences8.53×0 works
  3. Arts and Humanities4.63×0 works
  4. Engineering2.14×0 works
  5. Psychology1.76×0 works
  6. Social Sciences1.06×0 works
  7. Environmental Science0.49×0 works
  8. Medicine0.28×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Blue Bear (United Kingdom)?

Ranked on the quality score, P. Smith lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Blue Bear (United Kingdom).

  1. 1 P. Smith United Kingdom · #3,152,031 worldwide 346 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Blue Bear (United Kingdom)

What are the most cited papers from Blue Bear (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from Blue Bear (United Kingdom) is "Direct Method Based Control System for an Autonomous Quadrotor" (Ian D. Cowling, Oleg A. Yakimenko, James Ferris Whidborne et al., 2010), with 91 citations. Next come "Neural-Network-Based Flush Air Data Sensing System Demonstrated on a Mini Air Vehicle" (71) and "Flight test experience of a non-linear dynamic inversion control law on the VAAC Harrier" (45).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Direct Method Based Control System for an Autonomous Quadrotor Ian D. Cowling, Oleg A. Yakimenko, James Ferris Whidborne et al. · Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 21 Apr 2010 91
2 Neural-Network-Based Flush Air Data Sensing System Demonstrated on a Mini Air Vehicle Ihab Samy, Ian Postlethwaite, Da‐Wei Gu et al. · Journal of Aircraft 2010 71
3 Flight test experience of a non-linear dynamic inversion control law on the VAAC Harrier P. Smith, Andrew J. Berry · Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference Conference paper 14 Aug 2000 45
4 Learning to Perform a Perched Landing on the Ground Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Antony Waldock, Colin M. Greatwood, Francis Salama et al. · Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems Open access 3 Oct 2017 43
5 Remote sensing and identification of volcanic plumes using fixed‐wing UAVs over Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala Ben Schellenberg, Tom Richardson, Matt Watson et al. · Journal of Field Robotics Open access 24 Jul 2019 36
All 20 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Blue Bear (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Combustion and flame dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory.

Combustion and flame dyn…0Combustion and flame dynamics: 0 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dyna…0Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 0 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient …0Archaeology and ancient environmental studies: 0 fractional worksGas Dynamics and Kinetic…0Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory: 0 fractional worksForensic Anthropology an…0Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies: 0 fractional worksGeographies of human-ani…0Geographies of human-animal interactions: 0 fractional worksTraffic and Road Safety0Traffic and Road Safety: 0 fractional worksInjury Epidemiology and Prevention: 0 fractional worksSafety Warnings and Signage: 0 fractional works
Computational MechanicsPaleontologyApplied MathematicsArcheology4 others

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

  1. 1 Combustion and flame dynamics Computational Mechanics 0 works
  2. 2 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 0 works
  3. 3 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 0 works
  4. 4 Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory Applied Mathematics 0 works
  5. 5 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Archeology 0 works
  6. 6 Geographies of human-animal interactions Geography, Planning and Development 0 works
  7. 7 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  8. 8 Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Safety Warnings and Signage Social Psychology 0 works
  10. 10 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available16.4%not open83.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.8%domestic only83.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Blue Bear (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 224% higher 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 Blue Bear (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2022.

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Fractional works of Blue Bear (United Kingdom) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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