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Federal Aviation Administration

In research, Federal Aviation Administration stands highest in Physical Sciences (#4,512 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,170 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Aerospace Engineering (Aerospace Engineering is 15.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,852
of 22,385 · #6,630 all time
Rank in United States
#1,500
of 3,332
Research works
2.1k
▲ 17% vs 2018-21
Citations
23k
10.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
16%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Federal Aviation Administration

What is Federal Aviation Administration 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
Physical SciencesDomain #4,512 of 10,670 4.1%104 #3944
EngineeringField #5,170 of 5,901 2.2%73 #2271

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Federal Aviation Administration 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 Federal Aviation Administration work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Federal Aviation Administration is in Physical Sciences, 34% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (40%), Business, Management and Accounting (12%), Decision Sciences (7%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 116 fractional works · 58.9% of its workEngineering: 79 fractional works · 40.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 35 fractional works · 17.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 12 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 11 fractional works · 5.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPollution: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 66 fractional works · 33.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 23 fractional works · 11.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 9 fractional works · 4.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMarketing: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 6.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 9 fractional works · 4.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 11 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 8 fractional works · 4.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 5.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 5.5% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKFederal AviationAdministration197fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences59%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences34%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering7940.3%
    2. Computer Science115.7%
    3. Environmental Science105.3%
    4. Materials Science52.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences41.8%
    6. Physics and Astronomy31.5%
    7. Energy21.0%
    8. Chemistry10.5%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    10. Mathematics00.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting2311.6%
    2. Decision Sciences136.6%
    3. Psychology115.6%
    4. Social Sciences115.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance73.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.9%
    1. Health Professions73.7%
    2. Medicine31.7%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.1%
    2. Neuroscience20.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Federal Aviation Administration specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Aerospace Engineering takes 15.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 34.9 works15×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.85× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.73× its world share, 11 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.18× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.04× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.69× its world share, 79 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.06× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.67× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.66× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.41× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.61× its world share, 23 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 6.78× its world share, 13 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.70× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.84× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 6.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences6.78×13 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.61×23 works
  3. Engineering2.69×79 works
  4. Psychology1.84×11 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.70×7 works
  6. Health Professions1.41×7 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.18×4 works
  8. Environmental Science1.06×10 works
  9. Energy1.04×2 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.85×1 works
  11. Computer Science0.73×11 works
  12. Materials Science0.67×5 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.66×3 works
  14. Neuroscience0.50×2 works
  15. Social Sciences0.43×11 works
  16. Chemistry0.31×1 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.30×2 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×2 works
  19. Mathematics0.22×0 works
  20. Medicine0.09×3 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×0 works
  22. Nursing0.03×0 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Federal Aviation Administration?

Ranked on the quality score, Richard E. Lyon, Richard N. Walters and Natallia Safronava lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Federal Aviation Administration.

  1. 1 Richard E. Lyon United States · #262,267 worldwide 7.1k citations · 168 works
  2. 2 Richard N. Walters United States · #500,114 worldwide 2.7k citations · 42 works
  3. 3 Natallia Safronava United States · #957,358 worldwide 889 citations · 22 works
  4. 4 Sean B. Crowley United States · #1,312,396 worldwide 953 citations · 29 works
  5. 5 Clyde Collins Snow United States · #1,539,086 worldwide 1.1k citations · 47 works
  6. 6 Alvin M. Revzin United States · #1,635,611 worldwide 1.3k citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Semefa Elikplim Dzreke United States · #1,991,006 worldwide 113 citations · 65 works
  8. 8 Simon Suwanzy Dzreke United States · #2,070,847 worldwide 140 citations · 85 works
  9. 9 Mark Rumizen United States · #2,156,717 worldwide 477 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Lourdes Q. Maurice United States · #2,774,488 worldwide 948 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at Federal Aviation Administration

What are the most cited papers from Federal Aviation Administration?

The most cited paper from Federal Aviation Administration is "Executive control of cognitive processes in task switching." (Joshua S. Rubinstein, David E. Meyer, Jeffrey E. Evans, 2001), with 1,203 citations. Next come "Optical brain monitoring for operator training and mental workload assessment" (656) and "Pyrolysis combustion flow calorimetry" (475).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Executive control of cognitive processes in task switching. Joshua S. Rubinstein, David E. Meyer, Jeffrey E. Evans · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance 2001 1,203
2 Optical brain monitoring for operator training and mental workload assessment Hasan Ayaz, Patricia A. Shewokis, Scott C. Bunce et al. · NeuroImage 26 Jun 2011 656
3 Pyrolysis combustion flow calorimetry Richard E. Lyon, Richard N. Walters · Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 16 Jul 2003 475
4 Blink Rate: A Possible Measure of Fatigue John A. Stern, Donna J. Boyer, David J. Schroeder · Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Jun 1994 464
5 Progress Towards Metal Additive Manufacturing Standardization to Support Qualification and Certification Mohsen Seifi, Michael Gorelik, Jess Waller et al. · JOM 16 Feb 2017 422
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Federal Aviation Administration?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Assessment, Collision Avoidance, Air Traffic Management, Conflict Resolution, Flight Control, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Supply Chain Management and Dynamic Soaring.

▲ 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. Risk Assessment17▲ 13×5 topics
  2. Collision Avoidance15▲ 41×3 topics
  3. Air Traffic Management14▲ 344×1 topic
  4. Conflict Resolution14▲ 171×1 topic
  5. Sustainability12▲ 2.4×18 topics
  6. Deep Learning12▲ 1.71×22 topics
  7. Supply Chain Management10▲ 5.5×13 topics
  8. Flight Control9▲ 149×2 topics
  9. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles9▲ 23×3 topics
  10. Dynamic Soaring8▲ 248×1 topic
  11. Wind Estimation8▲ 248×1 topic
  12. Driver Behavior8▲ 52×2 topics
  13. Autonomous Vehicles8▲ 19×4 topics
  14. Bayesian Networks8▲ 43×1 topic
  15. Fault Tree Analysis8▲ 85×1 topic
  16. Environmental Impact8▲ 2.3×11 topics
  17. Trust7▲ 13×3 topics
  18. Automation7▲ 49×1 topic
  19. Driver Distraction7▲ 86×1 topic
  20. Innovation7▲ 3.2×12 topics
  21. Big Data6▲ 3.3×7 topics
  22. Occupational Safety6▲ 33×2 topics
  23. Image Processing6▲ 6.9×6 topics
  24. Risk Perception6▲ 10×5 topics
  25. Organizational Culture5▲ 6.9×2 topics
  26. Firm Performance5▲ 15×3 topics
  27. Life Cycle Assessment5▲ 9.0×4 topics
  28. Predictive Analytics5▲ 22×2 topics
  29. Safety Climate5▲ 27×1 topic
  30. Safety Culture5▲ 35×1 topic
  31. Defect Detection4▲ 18×3 topics
  32. Analytics4▲ 25×1 topic
  33. Business Intelligence4▲ 25×1 topic
  34. Crack Detection4▲ 31×1 topic
  35. Pavement4▲ 31×1 topic
  36. Icing Mitigation4▲ 163×1 topic
  37. Recycled Materials4▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Wind Turbines4▲ 163×1 topic
  39. Asphalt4▲ 60×1 topic
  40. Bitumen Modification4▲ 60×1 topic

Which research topics does Federal Aviation Administration publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Air Traffic Management and Optimization, Aerospace and Aviation Technology, Risk and Safety Analysis and Human-Automation Interaction and Safety.

Air Traffic Management a…14Air Traffic Management and Optimization: 14 fractional worksAerospace and Aviation Technology: 8 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis8Risk and Safety Analysis: 8 fractional worksHuman-Automation Interac…7Human-Automation Interaction and Safety: 7 fractional worksOccupational Health and Safety Research: 5 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 4 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenan…4Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 4 fractional worksIcing and De-icing Technologies: 4 fractional worksAsphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation: 4 fractional worksSmart Materials for Construction: 4 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringStatistics, Probability and UncertaintySocial PsychologyRadiological and Ultrasound Technology3 others

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

  1. 1 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 14 works
  2. 2 Aerospace and Aviation Technology Aerospace Engineering 8 works
  3. 3 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 8 works
  4. 4 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 7 works
  5. 5 Occupational Health and Safety Research Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 5 works
  6. 6 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 4 works
  7. 7 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 4 works
  8. 8 Icing and De-icing Technologies Aerospace Engineering 4 works
  9. 9 Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation Civil and Structural Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Smart Materials for Construction Pollution 4 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 available15.8%not open84.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.5%domestic only92.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Federal Aviation Administration's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% 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 Federal Aviation Administration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00066% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Federal Aviation Administration0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Federal Aviation Administration 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Federal Aviation Administration6.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.7% in 1994.

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