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Cranfield Impact Centre

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Research works
24
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
159
6.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
19%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Cranfield Impact Centre

Not ranked overall: Cranfield Impact Centre 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 Cranfield Impact Centre work in?

In all years, 77% of research at Cranfield Impact Centre is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (67%), Medicine (19%), Materials Science (6%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 18 fractional works · 77.2% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 67.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 22.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 16.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 9.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 7.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 19.3% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 19.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 13.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workALL ITS WORKCranfield ImpactCentre24fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences77%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences1%

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 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1667.1%
    2. Materials Science15.5%
    3. Computer Science14.2%
    4. Environmental Science00.3%
    1. Medicine519.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.1%
    1. Psychology01.4%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Cranfield Impact Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, Andrew C. Walton, Dušan Kecman and Roger Hardy lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cranfield Impact Centre.

  1. 1 Andrew C. Walton United Kingdom · #1,862,975 worldwide 425 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Dušan Kecman United Kingdom · #3,677,222 worldwide 486 citations · 24 works
  3. 3 Roger Hardy United Kingdom · #4,658,003 worldwide 101 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Cranfield Impact Centre

What are the most cited papers from Cranfield Impact Centre?

The most cited paper from Cranfield Impact Centre is "Fabrication, characterization and low‐velocity impact testing of hybrid sandwich composites with polyurethane/layered silicate foam cores" (James Njuguna, Sławomir Michałowski, Krzysztof Pielichowski et al., 2010), with 65 citations. Next come "Influence of loading rate on the delamination response of untufted and tufted carbon epoxy non-crimp fabric composites/Mode II" (59) and "Influence of loading rate on the delamination response of untufted and tufted carbon epoxy non crimp fabric composites: Mode I" (48).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fabrication, characterization and low‐velocity impact testing of hybrid sandwich composites with polyurethane/layered silicate foam cores James Njuguna, Sławomir Michałowski, Krzysztof Pielichowski et al. · Polymer Composites 3 Dec 2010 65
2 Influence of loading rate on the delamination response of untufted and tufted carbon epoxy non-crimp fabric composites/Mode II Mathieu Colin de Verdiere, Alexandros Antonios Skordos, Andrew C. Walton et al. · Engineering Fracture Mechanics 31 Jan 2012 59
3 Influence of loading rate on the delamination response of untufted and tufted carbon epoxy non crimp fabric composites: Mode I Mathieu Colin de Verdiere, Alexandros Antonios Skordos, Michael J. May et al. · Engineering Fracture Mechanics 30 Jun 2012 48
4 A systematic approach to aircraft crashworthiness and impact surface material models Siavash Hashemi, Andrew C. Walton · Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering May 2000 34
5 Developed trigger mechanisms to improve crush force efficiency of aluminium tubes Vikas Rai, H. Ghasemnejad, James Watson et al. · Engineering Structures Open access 11 Sep 2019 29
All 33 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Cranfield Impact Centre?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mechanical Properties, Finite Element Model, Traumatic Brain Injury, Biomechanics, Brain Injury, Finite Element Simulation, Crash Tests and Guardrail Systems.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 30 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Mechanical Properties5▲ 21×4 topics
  2. Finite Element Model4▲ 494×2 topics
  3. Traumatic Brain Injury4▲ 146×2 topics
  4. Biomechanics3▲ 42×1 topic
  5. Brain Injury3▲ 430×1 topic
  6. Finite Element Simulation3▲ 360×2 topics
  7. Crash Tests3▲ 1322×1 topic
  8. Guardrail Systems3▲ 1322×1 topic
  9. Finite Element Analysis2▲ 42×4 topics
  10. Autonomous Vehicles2▲ 59×3 topics
  11. Blast Loading2▲ 171×2 topics
  12. Mechanical Behavior2▲ 53×2 topics
  13. Dynamic Behavior2▲ 73×2 topics
  14. Collision Avoidance2▲ 54×2 topics
  15. Composite Springs2▲ 207×1 topic
  16. Control Systems2▲ 24×1 topic
  17. Progressive Collapse2▲ 233×1 topic
  18. Reinforced Concrete2▲ 95×1 topic
  19. Risk Assessment2▲ 11×2 topics
  20. Sustainability2▲ 3.6×2 topics
  21. Vehicle Dynamics2▲ 125×1 topic
  22. Vehicle Suspension2▲ 171×1 topic
  23. Air Traffic Management1▲ 338×1 topic
  24. Ballistic Impact1▲ 76×2 topics
  25. Conflict Resolution1▲ 188×1 topic
  26. Failure Analysis1▲ 37×2 topics
  27. Dynamic Deformation1▲ 134×1 topic
  28. High Strain Rate1▲ 134×1 topic
  29. Internet of Things1▲ 7.9×1 topic
  30. Social Networks1▲ 20×1 topic

Which research topics does Cranfield Impact Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cellular and Composite Structures, Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis, High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior and Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics.

Cellular and Composite S…0Cellular and Composite Structures: 0 fractional worksTransportation Safety an…0Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis: 0 fractional worksHigh-Velocity Impact and…0High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior: 0 fractional worksAutomotive and Human Inj…0Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics: 0 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringCivil and Structural EngineeringMaterials ChemistryPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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

  1. 1 Cellular and Composite Structures Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior Materials Chemistry 0 works
  4. 4 Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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 available19.1%not open80.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.2%domestic only86.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Cranfield Impact Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% 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 Cranfield Impact Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000012% in 2023.

0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Cranfield Impact Centre0.0000060% in 20241990200020102020

Fractional works of Cranfield Impact Centre over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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