Question 1

What is BT Research known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, BT Research stands highest in Physical Sciences (#6,840 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical and Electronic Engineering is 9.6× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does BT Research rank in research?

Accepted Answer

BT Research ranks #19,703 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#4,491 all time), and #718 of 862 in the United Kingdom.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at BT Research?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Simon J. D. Phoenix, Alan P. Smith and R.M. Percival lead among researchers whose main affiliation is BT Research.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from BT Research?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from BT Research is "A Multi-Modal Distributed Real-Time IoT System for Urban Traffic Control (Invited Paper)" (Khanam, Zeba, Achari, Vejey Pradeep Suresh, Boukhennoufa, Issam et al., 2024), with 14,399 citations. Next come "Software agents: an overview" (1,588) and "Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer?" (1,571).

Question 5

Which research topics does BT Research publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems, Speech Recognition and Synthesis and Advanced Optical Network Technologies.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at BT Research?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Energy Efficiency, Deep Learning, Optical Fiber, Coherent Detection, Digital Signal Processing, Neural Networks, Microwave Photonics and Photonic Signal Processing.

Question 7

Which fields of science does BT Research work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 87% of research at BT Research is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (45%), Computer Science (35%), Physics and Astronomy (3%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Is BT Research's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021.

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