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Forming Technologies (Canada)

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Research works
57
▲ 188% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.1k
20.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Forming Technologies (Canada)

Not ranked overall: Forming Technologies (Canada) 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 Forming Technologies (Canada) work in?

In all years, 81% of research at Forming Technologies (Canada) is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (67%), Medicine (8%), Computer Science (4%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 46 fractional works · 80.8% of its workEngineering: 38 fractional works · 67.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 24.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 8 fractional works · 13.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 8.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 7.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 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 workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.5% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKFormingTechnologies…57fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences8%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering3867.2%
    2. Computer Science24.2%
    3. Materials Science12.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.6%
    5. Environmental Science12.5%
    6. Chemical Engineering00.6%
    7. Chemistry00.5%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.3%
    9. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Medicine58.1%
    2. Health Professions11.4%
    1. Psychology23.8%
    2. Decision Sciences12.1%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.6%
    4. Social Sciences00.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.0%
    2. Neuroscience00.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemical Engineering: 1.31× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.46× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.88× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 2.13× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.65× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 1.74× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.04× its world share, 2 worksMedicinePsychology: 5.86× its world share, 2 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.88×1 works
  2. Psychology5.86×2 works
  3. Engineering2.13×4 works
  4. Health Professions1.74×1 works
  5. Environmental Science1.65×1 works
  6. Chemistry1.46×0 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.31×0 works
  8. Medicine1.04×2 works
  9. Materials Science0.66×0 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×0 works
  11. Computer Science0.18×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Forming Technologies (Canada)?

Ranked on the quality score, Medhat Karima and Usama Abdelsalam lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Forming Technologies (Canada).

  1. 1 Medhat Karima Canada · #4,492,361 worldwide 225 citations · 27 works
  2. 2 Usama Abdelsalam Canada · #4,729,703 worldwide 12 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Forming Technologies (Canada)

What are the most cited papers from Forming Technologies (Canada)?

The most cited paper from Forming Technologies (Canada) is "Direct recycling of 1050 aluminum alloy scrap material mixed with 6060 aluminum alloy chips by hot extrusion" (Volkan Güley, Noomane Ben Khalifa, A. Erman Tekkaya, 2010), with 70 citations. Next come "Measuring The Potency of Pulp Mill Effluents for Induction of Hepatic Mixed-Function Oxygenase Activity in Fish" (63) and "Integrins are required for cardioblast polarisation in Drosophila" (41).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Direct recycling of 1050 aluminum alloy scrap material mixed with 6060 aluminum alloy chips by hot extrusion Volkan Güley, Noomane Ben Khalifa, A. Erman Tekkaya · International Journal of Material Forming Apr 2010 70
2 Measuring The Potency of Pulp Mill Effluents for Induction of Hepatic Mixed-Function Oxygenase Activity in Fish P. V. Hodson, S.M. Efler, Joanna Yvonne Wilson et al. · Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Sep 1996 63
3 Integrins are required for cardioblast polarisation in Drosophila Jessica Vanderploeg, L Lourdes Vazquez Paz, Allison MacMullin et al. · BMC Developmental Biology Open access 21 Feb 2012 41
4 Innovative Flexible Metal Forming Processes based on Hybrid Thermo‐Mechanical Interaction Kurt Steinhoff, Ursula Weidig, Berthold Scholtes et al. · steel research international Feb 2005 32
5 Dynamic‐explicit elastic plastic finite‐element simulation of hemispherical punch‐drawing of sheet metal Eiji NAKAMACHI, Tongru Huo · Engineering Computations Mar 1996 17
All 54 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Forming Technologies (Canada)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Ductile Fracture, Sheet Metal Forming, Artificial Neural Networks, Microstructural Evolution, Dynamic Recrystallization, Hot Deformation, Mechanical Properties and Assembly Planning.

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

All 32 words, with their numbers
  1. Ductile Fracture9▲ 400×1 topic
  2. Sheet Metal Forming9▲ 400×1 topic
  3. Artificial Neural Networks7▲ 31×2 topics
  4. Microstructural Evolution7▲ 73×2 topics
  5. Dynamic Recrystallization7▲ 199×1 topic
  6. Hot Deformation7▲ 199×1 topic
  7. Mechanical Properties5▲ 9.5×13 topics
  8. Assembly Planning3▲ 61×1 topic
  9. Design for Manufacture3▲ 61×1 topic
  10. Geopolymer3▲ 59×2 topics
  11. Process Optimization2▲ 59×2 topics
  12. Finite Element Modeling2▲ 143×1 topic
  13. Laser Forming2▲ 258×1 topic
  14. Tool Wear2▲ 24×3 topics
  15. Additive Manufacturing2▲ 14×4 topics
  16. Environmental Impact2▲ 2.3×3 topics
  17. 3D Printing2▲ 14×2 topics
  18. Cementitious Materials2▲ 51×1 topic
  19. Fly Ash2▲ 37×1 topic
  20. Rheology1▲ 11×2 topics
  21. Concrete Extrusion1▲ 72×1 topic
  22. Construction Automation1▲ 72×1 topic
  23. Pulmonary Hypertension1▲ 12×2 topics
  24. Stress1▲ 5.1×3 topics
  25. Climate Change1▼ 0.72×7 topics
  26. Microstructure1▲ 4.0×5 topics
  27. Concept Mapping1▲ 32×1 topic
  28. Echocardiography1▲ 6.5×1 topic
  29. Optimization1▲ 3.2×2 topics
  30. Performance1▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Right Heart Assessment1▲ 44×1 topic
  32. Theory-Based Evaluation1▲ 74×1 topic

Which research topics does Forming Technologies (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Emotional Intelligence and Performance, Emotion and Mood Recognition, Hearing Impairment and Communication and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues.

Emotional Intelligence a…1Emotional Intelligence and Performance: 1 fractional worksEmotion and Mood Recogni…1Emotion and Mood Recognition: 1 fractional worksHearing Impairment and Communication: 1 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 0 fractional worksMetallurgy and Material Forming: 0 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 0 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 0 fractional worksMetal Forming Simulation…0Metal Forming Simulation Techniques: 0 fractional worksMyeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksLaser and Thermal Forming Techniques: 0 fractional works
Social PsychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6 others

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

  1. 1 Emotional Intelligence and Performance Social Psychology 1 works
  2. 2 Emotion and Mood Recognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1 works
  3. 3 Hearing Impairment and Communication Developmental and Educational Psychology 1 works
  4. 4 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  5. 5 Metallurgy and Material Forming Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  6. 6 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  7. 7 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 0 works
  8. 8 Metal Forming Simulation Techniques Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 0 works
  10. 10 Laser and Thermal Forming Techniques Computational Mechanics 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 available28.8%not open71.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.7%domestic only72.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Forming Technologies (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 188% 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 Forming Technologies (Canada) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000029% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Forming Technologies (Canada)0.000098% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Forming Technologies (Canada) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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