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ELCA (Switzerland)

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Research works
25
▼ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
552
22.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
55%
world 40%
International
54%
world 18%
ELCA (Switzerland)

Not ranked overall: ELCA (Switzerland) 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 ELCA (Switzerland) work in?

In all years, 58% of research at ELCA (Switzerland) is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (36%), Social Sciences (14%), Arts and Humanities (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 14 fractional works · 57.8% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 36.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 22.8% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 10.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 6.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 30.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 13.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife-span and Life-course Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 11.4% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 6.8% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 9.6% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workALL ITS WORKELCA(Switzerland)25fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences30%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science936.2%
    2. Engineering310.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy26.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.0%
    5. Environmental Science01.2%
    6. Chemistry00.3%
    7. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Social Sciences313.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities311.4%
    3. Psychology12.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting02.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    1. Medicine14.2%
    2. Nursing12.7%
    3. Health Professions02.0%
    4. Dentistry00.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.1%
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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.96× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 1.97× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21.97× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.94× its world share, 0 worksMedicinePsychology: 1.68× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.01× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 22.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.97×1 works
  2. Computer Science1.97×0 works
  3. Psychology1.68×0 works
  4. Social Sciences1.01×0 works
  5. Health Professions0.97×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.96×0 works
  7. Medicine0.94×0 works
  8. Engineering0.44×0 works

What are the most cited papers from ELCA (Switzerland)?

The most cited paper from ELCA (Switzerland) is "Automated categorization in the international patent classification" (C. J. Fall, Attila Törcsvári, Karim Benzineb et al., 2003), with 230 citations. Next come "Evolution of Adaptive Synapses: Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments" (99) and "Runge-Kutta methods for partial differential equations and fractional orders of convergence" (76).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Automated categorization in the international patent classification C. J. Fall, Attila Törcsvári, Karim Benzineb et al. · ACM SIGIR Forum Apr 2003 230
2 Evolution of Adaptive Synapses: Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments Joseba Urzelai, Dario Floreano · Evolutionary Computation Open access Dec 2001 99
3 Runge-Kutta methods for partial differential equations and fractional orders of convergence Alexander Ostermann, M. Roche · Mathematics of Computation Open access 1992 76
4 Characterising Data Mining software Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier, O. Povel · Intelligent Data Analysis 23 Jul 2003 68
5 Deconfinement phase transition in one-flavor QCD Constantia Alexandrou, Artan Boriçi, Alessandra Feo et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access 30 Jun 1999 67
All 35 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at ELCA (Switzerland)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Neural Networks, Feature Selection, Iberian Peninsula, Lattice QCD, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

▲ 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 8 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 8 words, with their numbers
  1. Neural Networks2▲ 6.0×4 topics
  2. Information Retrieval2▲ 42×2 topics
  3. Text Classification2▲ 65×2 topics
  4. Feature Selection1▲ 29×3 topics
  5. Machine Learning1▲ 2.4×6 topics
  6. Deep Learning1▲ 1.88×5 topics
  7. Iberian Peninsula1▲ 117×3 topics
  8. Lattice QCD1▲ 30×2 topics

Which research topics does ELCA (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Women's cancer prevention and management and Cloud Computing and Resource Management.

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 0 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 0 fractional worksWomen's cancer preventio…0Women's cancer prevention and management: 0 fractional worksCloud Computing and Reso…0Cloud Computing and Resource Management: 0 fractional worksCloud Data Security Solu…0Cloud Data Security Solutions: 0 fractional worksAccess Control and Trust0Access Control and Trust: 0 fractional worksOcean Waves and Remote Sensing: 0 fractional worksLGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy: 0 fractional worksSexual Differentiation and Disorders: 0 fractional worksGender Roles and Identity Studies: 0 fractional works
Atmospheric SciencePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthInformation SystemsSociology and Political Science4 others

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

  1. 1 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 0 works
  2. 2 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 0 works
  3. 3 Women's cancer prevention and management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  4. 4 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 Cloud Data Security Solutions Information Systems 0 works
  6. 6 Access Control and Trust Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing Oceanography 0 works
  8. 8 LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Social Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 Sexual Differentiation and Disorders Molecular Biology 0 works
  10. 10 Gender Roles and Identity Studies Gender Studies 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 available55.3%not open44.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors54.1%domestic only45.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ELCA (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% lower 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 ELCA (Switzerland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000051% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%ELCA (Switzerland)0.0000085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of ELCA (Switzerland) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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