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FiReCo (Norway)

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Research works
13
▼ 50% vs 2018-21
Citations
62
4.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
10%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
FiReCo (Norway)

Not ranked overall: FiReCo (Norway) 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 FiReCo (Norway) work in?

In all years, 51% of research at FiReCo (Norway) is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (50%), Health Professions (27%), Decision Sciences (19%).

Physical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 50.6% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 49.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 31.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 29.3% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 26.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 14.8% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 20.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 19.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 19.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workALL ITS WORKFiReCo (Norway)13fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences51%Health Sciences29%Social Sciences20%

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 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering749.5%
    2. Environmental Science00.5%
    3. Materials Science00.5%
    1. Health Professions426.8%
    2. Medicine02.4%
    1. Decision Sciences319.4%
    2. Social Sciences00.8%
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.

What are the most cited papers from FiReCo (Norway)?

The most cited paper from FiReCo (Norway) is "Ship hull structure monitoring using fibre optic sensors" (G. Wang, Karianne Pran, Geir Sagvolden et al., 2001), with 114 citations. Next come "Determination of a cohesive law for delamination modelling – Accounting for variation in crack opening and stress state across the test specimen width" (50) and "A micromechanical model of fiber bridging including effects of large deflections of the bridging fibers" (23).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ship hull structure monitoring using fibre optic sensors G. Wang, Karianne Pran, Geir Sagvolden et al. · Smart Materials and Structures Jun 2001 114
2 Determination of a cohesive law for delamination modelling – Accounting for variation in crack opening and stress state across the test specimen width Reidar Kvale Joki, Frode Grytten, Brian Hayman et al. · Composites Science and Technology Open access 18 Mar 2016 50
3 A micromechanical model of fiber bridging including effects of large deflections of the bridging fibers Frode Grytten, Bent F. Sørensen, Stergios Goutianos et al. · Composite Structures Open access 8 Dec 2020 23
4 A mixed mode cohesive model for FRP laminates incorporating large scale bridging behaviour Reidar Kvale Joki, Frode Grytten, Brian Hayman et al. · Engineering Fracture Mechanics Open access 9 Sep 2020 14
5 Instrumentation of a high-speed surface effect ship for structural response characterization during sea trials Karianne Pran, Gregg A. Johnson, Alf Egil Jensen et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 12 Jun 2000 13
All 20 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does FiReCo (Norway) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fire dynamics and safety research, Hygrothermal properties of building materials, Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites and Wood Treatment and Properties.

Fire dynamics and safety…0Fire dynamics and safety research: 0 fractional worksHygrothermal properties …0Hygrothermal properties of building materials: 0 fractional worksNatural Fiber Reinforced…0Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites: 0 fractional worksWood Treatment and Properties: 0 fractional works
Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityBuilding and ConstructionPolymers and Plastics

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

  1. 1 Fire dynamics and safety research Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  2. 2 Hygrothermal properties of building materials Building and Construction 0 works
  3. 3 Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites Polymers and Plastics 0 works
  4. 4 Wood Treatment and Properties Building and Construction 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 available9.8%not open90.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.6%domestic only80.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has FiReCo (Norway)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% 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 FiReCo (Norway) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000064% in 2021.

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

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