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General Electric (Italy)

In research, General Electric (Italy) stands highest in Engineering (#4,523 of 9,532 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#14,445 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#33,128
of 34,923
Rank in Italy
#721
of 743
Research works
207
▼ 91% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9k
9.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.80×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
13%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
General Electric (Italy)

What is General Electric (Italy) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
EngineeringField #4,523 of 9,532 4.0%154
Physical SciencesDomain #14,445 of 17,446 4.6%191

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where General Electric (Italy) 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 General Electric (Italy) work in?

In all years, 92% of research at General Electric (Italy) is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (74%), Computer Science (6%), Medicine (3%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 191 fractional works · 91.9% of its workEngineering: 154 fractional works · 74.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 57 fractional works · 27.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 30 fractional works · 14.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 16 fractional works · 7.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 13 fractional works · 6.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 10 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 8 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 12 fractional works · 5.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSoftware: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMetals and Alloys: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNumerical Analysis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGeneral Electric(Italy)207fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences92%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences4%

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. Engineering15474.4%
    2. Computer Science125.6%
    3. Materials Science62.8%
    4. Mathematics62.7%
    5. Chemical Engineering41.7%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences31.4%
    7. Environmental Science31.2%
    8. Physics and Astronomy31.2%
    9. Energy20.7%
    10. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Decision Sciences52.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting20.7%
    3. Social Sciences10.4%
    4. Psychology00.0%
    1. Medicine63.0%
    2. Health Professions10.3%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Neuroscience10.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
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: 1.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 4.32× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.57× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksMedicinePsychology: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× 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, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.03×0 works
  2. Engineering4.32×2 works
  3. Environmental Science1.57×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.07×0 works
  5. Computer Science0.64×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.48×0 works
  7. Health Professions0.37×0 works
  8. Psychology0.32×0 works
  9. Medicine0.21×0 works
  10. Social Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at General Electric (Italy)?

Ranked on the quality score, Lorenzo Naldi, Franco Forlani and Michele D’Ercole lead among researchers whose main affiliation is General Electric (Italy).

  1. 1 Lorenzo Naldi Italy · #3,015,025 worldwide 261 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Franco Forlani Italy · #3,044,081 worldwide 398 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Michele D’Ercole Italy · #3,560,235 worldwide 160 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Nicola Minnaja Italy · #3,607,079 worldwide 419 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Giuseppe Vannini Italy · #4,086,159 worldwide 654 citations · 59 works
  6. 6 Antonio Asti Italy · #4,704,910 worldwide 53 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Lorenzo Cosi Italy · #5,033,857 worldwide 115 citations · 26 works
  8. 8 Dante Tommaso Rubino Italy · #5,157,186 worldwide 170 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Leonardo Tognarelli Italy · #5,226,327 worldwide 199 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Enzo Giacomelli Italy · #5,237,929 worldwide 76 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at General Electric (Italy)

What are the most cited papers from General Electric (Italy)?

The most cited paper from General Electric (Italy) is "Overview of PI-Based Solutions for the Control of DC Buses of a Single-Phase H-Bridge Multilevel Active Rectifier" (Antonio Dell’Aquila, Marco Liserre, Vito Giuseppe Monopoli et al., 2008), with 207 citations. Next come "7T MRI in focal epilepsy with unrevealing conventional field strength imaging" (161) and "Conductors for commercial MRI magnets beyond NbTi: requirements and challenges" (153).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Overview of PI-Based Solutions for the Control of DC Buses of a Single-Phase H-Bridge Multilevel Active Rectifier Antonio Dell’Aquila, Marco Liserre, Vito Giuseppe Monopoli et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 2008 207
2 7T MRI in focal epilepsy with unrevealing conventional field strength imaging Alessio De Ciantis, Carmen Barba, Laura Tassi et al. · Epilepsia 18 Jan 2016 161
3 Conductors for commercial MRI magnets beyond NbTi: requirements and challenges Michael Parizh, Yuri Lvovsky, M.D. Sumption · Superconductor Science and Technology Open access 16 Nov 2016 153
4 The Impact of Varying Cooling and Thawing Rates on the Quality of Cryopreserved Human Peripheral Blood T Cells Jasmin Baboo, Peter Kilbride, Mike Delahaye et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 4 Mar 2019 115
5 NARX models of an industrial power plant gas turbine Michele Basso, Laura Giarré, S. Groppi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Open access 22 Jun 2005 106
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Which keywords describe research at General Electric (Italy)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heat Transfer, Large-Eddy Simulation, Boundary Layer, Film Cooling, Turbine, Environmental Impact, Energy Efficiency and Thermodynamic Analysis.

▲ 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. Heat Transfer40▲ 38×8 topics
  2. Large-Eddy Simulation35▲ 71×5 topics
  3. Boundary Layer23▲ 82×2 topics
  4. Film Cooling22▲ 596×1 topic
  5. Turbine22▲ 596×1 topic
  6. Environmental Impact20▲ 7.3×6 topics
  7. Energy Efficiency19▲ 12×8 topics
  8. Thermodynamic Analysis16▲ 139×3 topics
  9. Ejectors14▲ 251×1 topic
  10. Refrigerants14▲ 251×1 topic
  11. Laser Surface Texturing14▲ 184×1 topic
  12. Tribological Performance14▲ 103×1 topic
  13. Chemical Kinetics11▲ 48×2 topics
  14. Vibration Analysis10▲ 15×6 topics
  15. Simulation9▲ 13×5 topics
  16. Combustion Instabilities8▲ 53×2 topics
  17. Control8▲ 27×3 topics
  18. Adaptive8▲ 70×2 topics
  19. Modeling8▲ 14×2 topics
  20. Premixed Combustion8▲ 76×1 topic
  21. Turbulent Flames8▲ 76×1 topic
  22. Hydraulic Systems7▲ 60×1 topic
  23. Robust7▲ 83×1 topic
  24. Fault Diagnosis7▲ 14×4 topics
  25. Renewable Energy7▲ 3.2×7 topics
  26. Control Systems6▲ 11×2 topics
  27. Experimental Investigation5▲ 29×2 topics
  28. Active Magnetic Bearings5▲ 79×1 topic
  29. Magnetic Levitation5▲ 79×1 topic
  30. Friction Factor5▲ 65×1 topic
  31. Optimization5▲ 4.3×10 topics
  32. Solar Air Heater5▲ 65×1 topic
  33. Failure Analysis4▲ 16×3 topics
  34. Nonlinear Dynamics4▲ 8.7×3 topics
  35. Vortex Dynamics4▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Emissions4▲ 10×4 topics
  37. Condition Based Maintenance4▲ 291×1 topic
  38. Thermal Conductivity4▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Turbulent Flows4▲ 13×2 topics
  40. Vehicle Technical Condition4▲ 291×1 topic

Which research topics does General Electric (Italy) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis, Tunneling and Rock Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis and Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems.

Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis: 0 fractional worksTunneling and Rock Mechanics: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering…0Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis: 0 fractional worksHydraulic and Pneumatic …0Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems: 0 fractional worksCavitation Phenomena in …0Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps: 0 fractional worksWater Systems and Optimi…0Water Systems and Optimization: 0 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 0 fractional worksPlant Parasitism and Resistance: 0 fractional worksInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior: 0 fractional worksTime Series Analysis and Forecasting: 0 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringSafety, Risk, Reliability and QualityMechanical EngineeringMechanics of Materials4 others

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

  1. 1 Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Tunneling and Rock Mechanics Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  4. 4 Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  6. 6 Water Systems and Optimization Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  8. 8 Plant Parasitism and Resistance Plant Science 0 works
  9. 9 Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior Genetics 0 works
  10. 10 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Signal Processing 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 available12.8%not open87.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.5%domestic only78.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has General Electric (Italy)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 91% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 General Electric (Italy) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000036% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%General Electric (Italy)0.0000032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of General Electric (Italy) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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