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Cranefield College

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Research works
11
▲ 175% vs 2018-21
Citations
25
2.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
Cranefield College

Not ranked overall: Cranefield College is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Cranefield College work in?

In all years, 59% of research at Cranefield College is in Social Sciences, 40% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (27%), Engineering (19%), Social Sciences (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 59.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 26.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 11.3% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 10.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 14.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 6.8% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 12.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 9.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 39.6% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 19.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 13.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCranefieldCollege11fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences40%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences59%

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 3 domains and 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting326.7%
    2. Social Sciences214.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance112.9%
    4. Decision Sciences04.5%
    5. Psychology01.0%
    1. Engineering219.2%
    2. Computer Science213.6%
    3. Energy04.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.1%
    5. Environmental Science01.1%
    1. Health Professions01.0%
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.

Computer Science: 2.34× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.90× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 19.78× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEnvironmental Science: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 16.99× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.44× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Energy, 19.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Energy19.78×0 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance16.99×1 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.90×0 works
  4. Computer Science2.34×0 works
  5. Social Sciences1.44×0 works
  6. Environmental Science0.91×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Cranefield College?

Ranked on the quality score, Pieter G Steyn lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cranefield College.

  1. 1 Pieter G Steyn South Africa · #4,346,234 worldwide 22 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Cranefield College

What are the most cited papers from Cranefield College?

The most cited paper from Cranefield College is "Workplace spirituality and the ethical behaviour of project managers" (Freda van der Walt, Pieter G Steyn, 2019), with 12 citations. Next come "Reward and attitudes: The unintended outcomes of an effective performance appraisal" (7) and "The role of change management in improving policy effectiveness in the SANDF" (2).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Workplace spirituality and the ethical behaviour of project managers Freda van der Walt, Pieter G Steyn · SA Journal of Industrial Psychology Open access 8 Oct 2019 12
2 Reward and attitudes: The unintended outcomes of an effective performance appraisal Solomon M. Semakula-Katende, Erik D. Schmikl, Theuns Pelser · SA Journal of Human Resource Management Open access 9 Oct 2013 7
3 The role of change management in improving policy effectiveness in the SANDF Jaco Pietersen, Pieter G Steyn, Jan Meyer · Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies Open access Dec 2020 2
4 Business Cycles and Growth of South African Steel Manufacturing Industry Andretta Tsebe · Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies Open access 24 May 2022 1
5 Life Cycle Prediction: A Comparison of Methods for a Lighting Products Retailer Emel Aktaş, Fahimeh R. Chomachaei, Davood Golmohammadi · IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Open access 2025 0
All 11 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Cranefield College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Archaeology and Natural History, Energy Efficiency and Management, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth and Economic Growth and Productivity.

Archaeology and Natural History: 0 fractional worksEnergy Efficiency and Management: 0 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Econom…0Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 0 fractional worksEconomic Growth and Prod…0Economic Growth and Productivity: 0 fractional worksEconomic Theory and Policy: 0 fractional worksTopic Modeling: 0 fractional worksNeural Networks and Appl…0Neural Networks and Applications: 0 fractional worksHand Gesture Recognition Systems: 0 fractional worksGeological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond: 0 fractional works
AnthropologyRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentEconomics and EconometricsGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance4 others

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

  1. 1 Archaeology and Natural History Anthropology 0 works
  2. 2 Energy Efficiency and Management Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 0 works
  3. 3 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  4. 4 Economic Growth and Productivity Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  5. 5 Economic Theory and Policy General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0 works
  6. 6 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  7. 7 Neural Networks and Applications Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  8. 8 Hand Gesture Recognition Systems Human-Computer Interaction 0 works
  9. 9 Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America Geophysics 0 works
  10. 10 Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond Ecology 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 available54.4%not open45.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.5%domestic only66.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Cranefield College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 175% 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 Cranefield College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000014% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Cranefield College0.0000085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cranefield College over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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