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General Motors (United States)

In research, General Motors (United States) stands highest in Engineering (#1,436 of 5,901 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,436 of 10,670 worldwide) and Mechanical Engineering (#517 of 1,319 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Automotive Engineering is 24.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,889
of 22,385 · #4,526 all time
Rank in United States
#925
of 3,332
Research works
14k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
425k
29.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.76×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
10%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
General Motors (United States)

What is General Motors (United States) 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
EngineeringField #1,436 of 5,901 6.6%511 #1479
Physical SciencesDomain #3,436 of 10,670 6.9%659 #4164
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #517 of 1,319 9.0%101 #832
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #1,131 of 2,176 6.8%139 #1686
Automotive EngineeringSubfield #287 of 372 3.6%97 #394

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where General Motors (United States) 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Engineering#1,479 #1,436
  2. Physical Sciences#4,164 #3,436
  3. Mechanical Engineering#832 #517
  4. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#1,686 #1,131
  5. Automotive Engineering#394 #287
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does General Motors (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 88% of research at General Motors (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (67%), Computer Science (9%), Materials Science (5%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 750 fractional works · 88.0% of its workEngineering: 572 fractional works · 67.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 152 fractional works · 17.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 116 fractional works · 13.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 112 fractional works · 13.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 46 fractional works · 5.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 30 fractional works · 3.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 25 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 22 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 18 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 17 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 73 fractional works · 8.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 19 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHardware and Architecture: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoftware: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 44 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 24 fractional works · 2.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMetals and Alloys: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInstrumentation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 62 fractional works · 7.3% of its workPsychology: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 27 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMedicine: 20 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKGeneral Motors(United States)852fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences7%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering57267.2%
    2. Computer Science738.5%
    3. Materials Science445.2%
    4. Chemical Engineering141.6%
    5. Environmental Science121.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy111.3%
    7. Energy101.2%
    8. Chemistry70.9%
    9. Mathematics40.5%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.3%
    1. Psychology161.8%
    2. Social Sciences151.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting111.3%
    4. Decision Sciences91.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities70.9%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance50.6%
    1. Medicine202.4%
    2. Health Professions50.6%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences70.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.4%
    3. Neuroscience30.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does General Motors (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Automotive Engineering takes 24.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 111.7 works24×
  2. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 116.2 works7.4×
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 25.1 works5.7×
  4. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 46.4 works5.0×
← 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: 0.17× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 4.68× its world share, 14 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.55× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.10× its world share, 73 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.29× its world share, 10 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.48× its world share, 572 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.48× its world share, 44 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.57× its world share, 11 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.23× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 20 worksMedicineNursing: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.30× its world share, 7 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 11 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.28× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.60× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemical Engineering, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemical Engineering4.68×14 works
  2. Engineering4.48×572 works
  3. Materials Science1.48×44 works
  4. Energy1.29×10 works
  5. Computer Science1.10×73 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.04×8 works
  7. Psychology0.60×16 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.57×11 works
  9. Chemistry0.55×7 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.40×11 works
  11. Mathematics0.39×4 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.30×7 works
  13. Environmental Science0.29×12 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.28×5 works
  15. Health Professions0.23×5 works
  16. Neuroscience0.20×3 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.18×2 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×7 works
  19. Veterinary0.13×0 works
  20. Social Sciences0.13×14 works
  21. Medicine0.12×20 works
  22. Dentistry0.09×0 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×4 works
  24. Nursing0.08×0 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at General Motors (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Xingcheng Xiao, Stephen J. Harris and Mei Cai lead among researchers whose main affiliation is General Motors (United States).

  1. 1 Xingcheng Xiao United States · #25,822 worldwide 17k citations · 233 works
  2. 2 Stephen J. Harris United States · #41,931 worldwide 24k citations · 415 works
  3. 3 Mei Cai United States · #44,852 worldwide 18k citations · 211 works
  4. 4 Peng Lu United States · #119,118 worldwide 5.6k citations · 62 works
  5. 5 Mark W. Verbrugge United States · #153,861 worldwide 14k citations · 207 works
  6. 6 Anusorn Kongkanand United States · #222,310 worldwide 8.5k citations · 119 works
  7. 7 Anne Dailly United States · #227,983 worldwide 8.2k citations · 94 works
  8. 8 Thomas A. Perry United States · #379,301 worldwide 5.6k citations · 141 works
  9. 9 Ion C. Halalay United States · #470,708 worldwide 2.4k citations · 92 works
  10. 10 Se H. Oh United States · #616,088 worldwide 8k citations · 107 works
All ranked researchers at General Motors (United States)

What are the most cited papers from General Motors (United States)?

The most cited paper from General Motors (United States) is "A method for registration of 3-D shapes" (Paul J. Besl, Neil David McKay, 1992), with 18,308 citations. Next come "Efficient Global Optimization of Expensive Black-Box Functions" (8,096) and "Activity benchmarks and requirements for Pt, Pt-alloy, and non-Pt oxygen reduction catalysts for PEMFCs" (4,881).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A method for registration of 3-D shapes Paul J. Besl, Neil David McKay · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Feb 1992 18,308
2 Efficient Global Optimization of Expensive Black-Box Functions Donald R. Jones, Matthias Schonlau, William J. Welch · Journal of Global Optimization Dec 1998 8,096
3 Activity benchmarks and requirements for Pt, Pt-alloy, and non-Pt oxygen reduction catalysts for PEMFCs Hubert Andreas Gasteiger, Shyam S. Kocha, Bhaskar Sompalli et al. · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 6 Nov 2004 4,881
4 Table of Integrals, Series, and Products I. S. Gradshteyn, I.M. RYZHIK, D. F. Hays · Journal of Lubrication Technology Open access Jul 1976 4,749
5 Survey of Wireless Indoor Positioning Techniques and Systems Hui Liu, Houshang Darabi, Pat P. Banerjee et al. · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews) 23 Oct 2007 4,119
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at General Motors (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Electric Vehicles, Lithium-ion Batteries, Mechanical Properties, Cathode Materials, Thermal Management, Energy Storage, Battery Technology and Battery Management Systems.

▲ 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. Electric Vehicles81▲ 33×4 topics
  2. Lithium-ion Batteries78▲ 22×3 topics
  3. Mechanical Properties68▲ 8.1×27 topics
  4. Cathode Materials59▲ 18×3 topics
  5. Deep Learning59▲ 1.99×52 topics
  6. Thermal Management50▲ 18×6 topics
  7. Machine Learning49▲ 1.74×46 topics
  8. Energy Storage44▲ 7.9×11 topics
  9. Battery Technology43▲ 18×3 topics
  10. Battery Management Systems42▲ 34×1 topic
  11. Thermal Runaway42▲ 34×1 topic
  12. Microstructure39▲ 8.8×15 topics
  13. Model Predictive Control38▲ 17×5 topics
  14. Rechargeable Batteries36▲ 16×2 topics
  15. Battery Materials32▲ 23×1 topic
  16. Nanostructured Anodes32▲ 23×1 topic
  17. Power Electronics31▲ 11×8 topics
  18. Autonomous Vehicles30▲ 17×4 topics
  19. Control Systems27▲ 18×8 topics
  20. Renewable Energy Integration26▲ 9.3×4 topics
  21. Lithium-Sulfur Batteries23▲ 19×2 topics
  22. Nanostructured Cathodes23▲ 22×1 topic
  23. Solid-State Electrolytes23▲ 22×1 topic
  24. Smart Grid22▲ 7.3×6 topics
  25. Microstructural Evolution22▲ 18×4 topics
  26. Grain Refinement22▲ 22×4 topics
  27. Energy Storage Systems20▲ 17×2 topics
  28. Control Strategies18▲ 15×4 topics
  29. Vehicle Dynamics18▲ 37×2 topics
  30. Hybrid Vehicles18▲ 56×1 topic
  31. Power Management Strategy18▲ 56×1 topic
  32. Thermal Analysis17▲ 15×8 topics
  33. Corrosion Behavior16▲ 24×2 topics
  34. Aerospace Applications16▲ 20×3 topics
  35. Numerical Simulation16▲ 6.5×8 topics
  36. Finite Element Analysis15▲ 8.0×7 topics
  37. Collision Avoidance14▲ 9.3×2 topics
  38. Emissions14▲ 8.6×3 topics
  39. Aluminium Alloys14▲ 41×1 topic
  40. Automotive Industry14▲ 41×1 topic

Which research topics does General Motors (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies and Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies.

Advanced Battery Technol…42Advanced Battery Technologies Research: 42 fractional worksAdvancements in Battery Materials: 32 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Materials and Technologies: 23 fractional worksElectric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies: 18 fractional worksAluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties: 14 fractional worksAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety: 13 fractional worksVehicle emissions and performance: 12 fractional worksAluminum Alloys Composites Properties: 12 fractional worksAdvanced Combustion Engine Technologies: 12 fractional worksElectric Motor Design and Analysis: 12 fractional works
Automotive EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringAerospace EngineeringMechanical Engineering1 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 42 works
  2. 2 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 32 works
  3. 3 Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 23 works
  4. 4 Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Automotive Engineering 18 works
  5. 5 Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties Aerospace Engineering 14 works
  6. 6 Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety Automotive Engineering 13 works
  7. 7 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 12 works
  8. 8 Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties Mechanical Engineering 12 works
  9. 9 Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes 12 works
  10. 10 Electric Motor Design and Analysis Electrical and Electronic Engineering 12 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 available10.5%not open89.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.1%domestic only79.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has General Motors (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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 Motors (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0030% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%General Motors (United States)0.0041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of General Motors (United States) 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%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025General Motors (United States)6.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.3% in 2010.

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