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Four Directions Development Corporation

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Research works
61
▼ 41% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9k
31.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
Four Directions Development Corporation

Not ranked overall: Four Directions Development Corporation 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 Four Directions Development Corporation work in?

In all years, 44% of research at Four Directions Development Corporation is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (18%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%), Engineering (13%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 27 fractional works · 44.4% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 12.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 9.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 30.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 17.5% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 5.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeneral Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 18.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 13.6% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 5.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKFour DirectionsDevelopment…61fractional works, all years
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences44%Health Sciences7%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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering812.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences69.1%
    3. Environmental Science58.5%
    4. Materials Science23.3%
    5. Chemistry23.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy22.8%
    7. Mathematics12.3%
    8. Computer Science12.0%
    9. Energy00.5%
    1. Social Sciences1117.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities35.2%
    3. Psychology23.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.2%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting12.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences813.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22.9%
    3. Neuroscience11.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.6%
    1. Medicine35.0%
    2. Health Professions11.3%
    3. Nursing00.3%
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: 2.36× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 2.98× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.22× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.90× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.17× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.61× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science5.17×2 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.98×0 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.36×1 works
  4. Engineering1.90×2 works
  5. Social Sciences1.61×1 works
  6. Energy1.22×0 works
  7. Mathematics0.95×0 works
  8. Arts and Humanities0.49×0 works
  9. Materials Science0.46×0 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.25×0 works
  11. Medicine0.16×0 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×0 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×0 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Four Directions Development Corporation?

Ranked on the quality score, F. L. Harvey lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Four Directions Development Corporation.

  1. 1 F. L. Harvey United States · #2,584,058 worldwide 23 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Four Directions Development Corporation

What are the most cited papers from Four Directions Development Corporation?

The most cited paper from Four Directions Development Corporation is "Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record" (T. McKenny Hughes, 1982), with 467 citations. Next come "Mastering the non-equilibrium assembly and operation of molecular machines" (307) and "Diffusion in nanoporous materials: fundamental principles, insights and challenges" (258).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record T. McKenny Hughes · Sedimentary Geology Sep 1982 467
2 Mastering the non-equilibrium assembly and operation of molecular machines Cristian Pezzato, Chuyang Cheng, J. Fraser Stoddart et al. · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2017 307
3 Diffusion in nanoporous materials: fundamental principles, insights and challenges Jörg Kärger, Douglas M. Ruthven · New Journal of Chemistry Open access 2016 258
4 How molecular motors work – insights from the molecular machinist's toolbox: the Nobel prize in Chemistry 2016 Raymond Dean Astumian · Chemical Science Open access 21 Nov 2016 141
5 Reversible-addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) mediated depolymerization of brush polymers Michael J. Flanders, William M. Gramlich · Polymer Chemistry 2018 109
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Four Directions Development Corporation?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, History, Remote Sensing, Invasive Species, Antioxidants, Toxicity, Geospatial Crowdsourcing and Neoliberalism.

▲ 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 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. Climate Change8▲ 5.0×24 topics
  2. History4▲ 7.6×6 topics
  3. Remote Sensing3▲ 4.7×6 topics
  4. Invasive Species2▲ 6.7×6 topics
  5. Antioxidants2▲ 8.0×3 topics
  6. Toxicity2▲ 7.8×4 topics
  7. Geospatial Crowdsourcing2▲ 120×1 topic
  8. Metabolism2▲ 5.1×3 topics
  9. Neoliberalism2▲ 9.2×2 topics
  10. Science2▲ 18×3 topics
  11. Volunteered Geographic Information2▲ 120×1 topic
  12. Potato2▲ 65×2 topics
  13. Biological Control2▲ 17×4 topics
  14. Acrylamide2▲ 109×1 topic
  15. Maillard Reaction2▲ 109×1 topic
  16. Identity2▲ 3.3×3 topics
  17. Ethics2▲ 5.1×4 topics
  18. Sea Level Rise2▲ 20×2 topics
  19. Feminism1▲ 8.3×2 topics
  20. Glacial Cycles1▲ 20×1 topic
  21. Holocene1▲ 14×2 topics
  22. Hydrology1▲ 19×3 topics
  23. Paleoclimatology1▲ 17×1 topic
  24. Pheromones1▲ 33×2 topics
  25. Biological Detection1▲ 16×2 topics
  26. Hydrological Modeling1▲ 10×3 topics
  27. Self-Regulation1▲ 12×2 topics
  28. Academic Achievement1▲ 12×2 topics
  29. Acoustic Wave Biosensors1▲ 37×1 topic
  30. Sustainability Indicators1▲ 29×2 topics
  31. Thin Film Resonators1▲ 37×1 topic
  32. Agricultural Productivity1▲ 59×1 topic
  33. Canada1▲ 60×1 topic
  34. Civil Engineering1▲ 26×1 topic
  35. Construction1▲ 16×1 topic
  36. Economic Institutions1▲ 52×1 topic
  37. Epistemology1▲ 36×1 topic
  38. Halyomorpha halys1▲ 162×1 topic
  39. Professional Development1▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Trauma1▲ 8.8×2 topics

Which research topics does Four Directions Development Corporation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Canadian Identity and History, Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing, Fish Ecology and Management Studies and Ecology and biodiversity studies.

Canadian Identity and Hi…1Canadian Identity and History: 1 fractional worksCoal Combustion and Slurry Processing: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksEcology and biodiversity…0Ecology and biodiversity studies: 0 fractional worksRadiative Heat Transfer Studies: 0 fractional worksThermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes: 0 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…0Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 0 fractional worksEnergy Harvesting in Wireless Networks: 0 fractional worksFull-Duplex Wireless Communications: 0 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceMechanical EngineeringNature and Landscape ConservationEcology4 others

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

  1. 1 Canadian Identity and History Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  2. 2 Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  4. 4 Ecology and biodiversity studies Ecology 0 works
  5. 5 Radiative Heat Transfer Studies Computational Mechanics 0 works
  6. 6 Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Full-Duplex Wireless Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 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 available28.7%not open71.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.3%domestic only87.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Four Directions Development Corporation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% 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 Four Directions Development Corporation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000017% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Four Directions Development Corporation0.000018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Four Directions Development Corporation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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