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EDF Energy (United Kingdom)

In research, EDF Energy (United Kingdom) stands highest in Engineering (#1,946 of 5,901 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#4,359 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (Ocean Engineering is 21.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,016
of 22,385 · #9,838 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#397
of 862
Research works
906
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
12k
13.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
EDF Energy (United Kingdom)

What is EDF Energy (United Kingdom) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #1,946 of 5,901 15.8%106 #2104
Physical SciencesDomain #4,359 of 10,670 15.2%168 #4445

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where EDF Energy (United Kingdom) 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does EDF Energy (United Kingdom) work in?

In 2022-now, 92% of research at EDF Energy (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (57%), Environmental Science (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 188 fractional works · 91.8% of its workEngineering: 117 fractional works · 57.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 25 fractional works · 12.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 23 fractional works · 11.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 20 fractional works · 9.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 12 fractional works · 6.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 7 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 21 fractional works · 10.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 8 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 fractional works · 6.7% of its workGeophysics: 7 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 12 fractional works · 5.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMetals and Alloys: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKEDF Energy(United Kingdom)205fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences92%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering11757.2%
    2. Environmental Science2110.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences146.7%
    4. Computer Science125.9%
    5. Materials Science84.1%
    6. Energy73.6%
    7. Physics and Astronomy41.7%
    8. Chemistry31.5%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.5%
    10. Mathematics10.3%
    1. Social Sciences41.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.7%
    3. Decision Sciences10.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities10.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    6. Psychology00.2%
    1. Medicine31.7%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does EDF Energy (United Kingdom) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 21.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 23.0 works22×
  2. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 24.6 works6.5×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.38× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.95× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.76× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.29× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.87× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.81× its world share, 117 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.08× its world share, 21 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.17× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.77× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 4.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.29×14 works
  2. Energy3.87×7 works
  3. Engineering3.81×117 works
  4. Environmental Science2.08×21 works
  5. Chemical Engineering1.38×1 works
  6. Materials Science1.17×8 works
  7. Chemistry0.95×3 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.77×4 works
  9. Computer Science0.76×12 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.71×1 works
  11. Veterinary0.64×0 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.33×1 works
  13. Health Professions0.30×2 works
  14. Mathematics0.25×1 works
  15. Nursing0.20×0 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×2 works
  17. Neuroscience0.15×0 works
  18. Social Sciences0.15×4 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.14×1 works
  20. Dentistry0.13×0 works
  21. Medicine0.09×3 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.07×0 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×1 works
  24. Psychology0.05×0 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at EDF Energy (United Kingdom)?

Ranked on the quality score, David A. Wood, Maria Brucoli and Abouzar Choubineh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is EDF Energy (United Kingdom).

  1. 1 David A. Wood United Kingdom · #93,235 worldwide 19k citations · 566 works
  2. 2 Maria Brucoli United Kingdom · #1,056,802 worldwide 609 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Abouzar Choubineh United Kingdom · #1,242,166 worldwide 753 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Martin A. Kearns United Kingdom · #1,489,509 worldwide 1.2k citations · 41 works
  5. 5 Sami Barbouchi United Kingdom · #2,886,804 worldwide 286 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Hugo Winter United Kingdom · #3,462,410 worldwide 826 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 P. Lang United Kingdom · #3,835,954 worldwide 648 citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Peter Budden United Kingdom · #3,927,429 worldwide 2k citations · 146 works
  9. 9 M. Michel United Kingdom · #4,171,024 worldwide 482 citations · 37 works
  10. 10 Paul Phillips United Kingdom · #4,191,518 worldwide 94 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at EDF Energy (United Kingdom)

What are the most cited papers from EDF Energy (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from EDF Energy (United Kingdom) is "Gas-to-liquids (GTL): A review of an industry offering several routes for monetizing natural gas" (David A. Wood, Chikezie Nwaoha, Brian Francis Towler, 2012), with 421 citations. Next come "Identification and evaluation of well integrity and causes of failure of well integrity barriers (A review)" (392) and "A review of quantification methodologies for multi-hazard interrelationships" (366).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Gas-to-liquids (GTL): A review of an industry offering several routes for monetizing natural gas David A. Wood, Chikezie Nwaoha, Brian Francis Towler · Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 9 Aug 2012 421
2 Identification and evaluation of well integrity and causes of failure of well integrity barriers (A review) Raj Kiran, Cătălin Teodoriu, Younas Dadmohammadi et al. · Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 8 Jun 2017 392
3 A review of quantification methodologies for multi-hazard interrelationships Aloïs Tilloy, Bruce D. Malamud, Hugo Winter et al. · Earth-Science Reviews Open access 22 Jun 2019 366
4 Electrical conductivity models in saturated porous media: A review Jianchao Cai, Wei Wei, Xiangyun Hu et al. · Earth-Science Reviews 30 Jun 2017 326
5 Review of technological progress in carbon dioxide capture, storage, and utilization Shadfar Davoodi, Mohammed Al-Shargabi, David A. Wood et al. · Gas Science and Engineering 13 Jul 2023 311
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at EDF Energy (United Kingdom)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Pore Structure, Renewable Energy, Fracture Propagation, Shale Gas Reservoirs, Gas Permeability and Mudstones.

▲ 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-now 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. Machine Learning16▲ 2.3×24 topics
  2. Hydraulic Fracturing15▲ 71×2 topics
  3. Renewable Energy15▲ 5.2×25 topics
  4. Shale Gas15▲ 61×2 topics
  5. Pore Structure13▲ 53×2 topics
  6. Fracture Propagation12▲ 102×1 topic
  7. Shale Gas Reservoirs12▲ 102×1 topic
  8. Gas Permeability12▲ 61×1 topic
  9. Mudstones12▲ 80×1 topic
  10. CO2 Sequestration11▲ 27×4 topics
  11. Climate Change9▲ 1.67×24 topics
  12. Nanoparticles8▲ 3.1×7 topics
  13. Vibration Analysis7▲ 13×3 topics
  14. Environmental Impact7▲ 2.0×19 topics
  15. Drilling Fluids7▲ 64×1 topic
  16. Well Integrity7▲ 64×1 topic
  17. Optimization7▲ 7.3×7 topics
  18. Data Assimilation7▲ 20×2 topics
  19. Ensemble Kalman Filter7▲ 32×2 topics
  20. Uncertainty Quantification7▲ 41×2 topics
  21. Closed-Loop Control6▲ 67×1 topic
  22. Porous Media6▲ 23×5 topics
  23. Well Placement6▲ 67×1 topic
  24. Natural Gas6▲ 30×3 topics
  25. Numerical Simulation5▲ 8.2×7 topics
  26. Finite Element Analysis4▲ 9.6×3 topics
  27. Nanofluids4▲ 26×2 topics
  28. Pore-scale Modeling4▲ 57×1 topic
  29. X-ray Computed Tomography4▲ 57×1 topic
  30. Heat Transfer4▲ 4.3×10 topics
  31. Renewable Energy Integration4▲ 6.4×3 topics
  32. Geophysical Imaging4▲ 37×2 topics
  33. Smart Grid4▲ 5.4×5 topics
  34. Fatigue Crack Closure4▲ 66×1 topic
  35. Fracture Toughness Testing4▲ 66×1 topic
  36. Particulate Matter4▲ 13×2 topics
  37. Emissions4▲ 9.3×3 topics
  38. Geological Mapping3▲ 21×2 topics
  39. Hydrogen Embrittlement3▲ 20×3 topics
  40. Inverse Problems3▲ 15×2 topics

Which research topics does EDF Energy (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Hydraulic Fracturing and…12Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 12 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration …12Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 12 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 7 fractional worksReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 6 fractional worksEnhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 4 fractional worksFatigue and fracture mec…4Fatigue and fracture mechanics: 4 fractional worksSeismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 3 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 3 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 3 fractional worksNuclear and radioactivity studies: 2 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsOcean EngineeringGeophysics3 others

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

  1. 1 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 12 works
  2. 2 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 12 works
  3. 3 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 7 works
  4. 4 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 6 works
  5. 5 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 4 works
  6. 6 Fatigue and fracture mechanics Mechanics of Materials 4 works
  7. 7 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 3 works
  8. 8 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  9. 9 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  10. 10 Nuclear and radioactivity studies Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 2 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 available32.3%not open67.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.5%domestic only65.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has EDF Energy (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 EDF Energy (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00087% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%EDF Energy (United Kingdom)0.00097% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%EDF Energy (United Kingdom)11.7% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.0% in 2022.

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