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China Railway Corporation

In research, China Railway Corporation stands highest in Engineering (#2,044 of 6,636 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#6,312 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering — Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is 14.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,264
of 28,054 · #9,725 all time
Rank in China
#1,997
of 3,058
Research works
1.9k
▼ 28% vs 2013–17
Citations
5.3k
2.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
16%
world 28%

What is China Railway Corporation 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
EngineeringField #2,044 of 6,636 13.1%218 #911
Physical SciencesDomain #6,312 of 12,888 13.4%289 #5591

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where China Railway Corporation 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).

What does China Railway Corporation specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering takes 14.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 25.5 works15×
  2. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 41.0 works10×
  3. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 35.2 works5.8×
← 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: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.19× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.31× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.71× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.39× its world share, 218 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.88× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.93× its world share, 11 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.46× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.57× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.34× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 15 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at China Railway Corporation?

Ranked on the composite score, Hongbin Zhou lead among researchers whose main affiliation is China Railway Corporation.

  1. 1 Hongbin Zhou China · #1,462,252 worldwide 5 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at China Railway Corporation

Which keywords describe research at China Railway Corporation?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Energy Efficiency, High-Speed Trains, Deep Learning, Traffic Management, Optimal Control, Railway Timetabling, Train Scheduling and Dynamic Interaction.

▲ 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. Deep Learning34▲ 3.0×50 topics
  2. Energy Efficiency25▲ 8.0×22 topics
  3. High-Speed Trains23▲ 107×3 topics
  4. Traffic Management20▲ 132×3 topics
  5. Optimal Control19▲ 80×2 topics
  6. Railway Timetabling19▲ 331×1 topic
  7. Train Scheduling19▲ 331×1 topic
  8. Dynamic Interaction18▲ 83×2 topics
  9. Rolling Contact Fatigue18▲ 91×2 topics
  10. Machine Learning18▲ 1.62×41 topics
  11. Ground Vibration16▲ 180×1 topic
  12. Railway Dynamics16▲ 180×1 topic
  13. Neural Networks16▲ 3.1×20 topics
  14. Convolutional Neural Networks12▲ 4.9×10 topics
  15. Analysis10▲ 31×2 topics
  16. Remote Sensing10▲ 2.4×18 topics
  17. Internet of Things10▲ 3.4×16 topics
  18. Numerical Simulation10▲ 9.7×9 topics
  19. Mechanical Properties9▲ 2.9×23 topics
  20. Liquefaction8▲ 28×2 topics
  21. Tunnel8▲ 28×2 topics
  22. Optimization8▲ 5.3×14 topics
  23. Vibration Analysis8▲ 9.1×6 topics
  24. Image Processing8▲ 5.5×6 topics
  25. Fault Diagnosis8▲ 16×7 topics
  26. Travel Behavior8▲ 25×2 topics
  27. Pipeline7▲ 20×3 topics
  28. Service Quality7▲ 8.2×2 topics
  29. Defect Detection7▲ 16×3 topics
  30. Power Electronics7▲ 6.5×7 topics
  31. Public Transport7▲ 37×2 topics
  32. Urban Mobility7▲ 37×2 topics
  33. Congestion Pricing7▲ 38×1 topic
  34. Route Choice7▲ 38×1 topic
  35. Finite Element Analysis6▲ 8.5×6 topics
  36. Intelligent Transportation Systems6▲ 13×4 topics
  37. Earthquake6▲ 30×1 topic
  38. Seismic6▲ 30×1 topic
  39. Sensor Networks6▲ 7.1×5 topics
  40. Crack Detection5▲ 23×1 topic

Which research topics does China Railway Corporation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency, Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Transportation Planning and Optimization and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures.

Railway Systems and Ener…19Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency: 19 fractional worksRailway Engineering and …16Railway Engineering and Dynamics: 16 fractional worksTransportation Planning and Optimization: 7 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 6 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 5 fractional worksElectrical Contact Perfo…5Electrical Contact Performance and Analysis: 5 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Analysis: 4 fractional worksTraffic Prediction and Management Techniques: 4 fractional worksCivil and Geotechnical Engineering Research: 4 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 3 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringMechanical EngineeringTransportationCivil and Structural Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 19 works
  2. 2 Railway Engineering and Dynamics Mechanical Engineering 16 works
  3. 3 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 7 works
  4. 4 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 6 works
  5. 5 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 5 works
  6. 6 Electrical Contact Performance and Analysis Mechanical Engineering 5 works
  7. 7 Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 4 works
  8. 8 Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques Building and Construction 4 works
  9. 9 Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research General Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 3 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 available15.7%not open84.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.9%domestic only94.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has China Railway Corporation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% 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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