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Go Sheng

In research, Go Sheng stands highest in Physical Sciences (#13,799 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#25,628
of 34,923
Rank in Kenya
#69
of 88
Research works
257
▼ 42% vs 2018-21
Citations
155
0.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.74×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
2%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Go Sheng

What is Go Sheng 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
Physical SciencesDomain #13,799 of 17,446 9.6%146

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Go Sheng 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 Go Sheng work in?

In all years, 57% of research at Go Sheng is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (28%), Social Sciences (14%), Computer Science (13%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 146 fractional works · 56.7% of its workEngineering: 72 fractional works · 28.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 20 fractional works · 7.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 15 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 33 fractional works · 12.7% of its workInformation Systems: 17 fractional works · 6.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 62 fractional works · 24.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 36 fractional works · 13.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 20 fractional works · 7.7% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 30 fractional works · 11.7% of its workMedicine: 26 fractional works · 10.2% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 7.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKGo Sheng257fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences57%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences24%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering7228.1%
    2. Computer Science3312.7%
    3. Environmental Science124.8%
    4. Materials Science72.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences62.4%
    6. Chemistry52.0%
    7. Mathematics41.6%
    8. Physics and Astronomy41.4%
    9. Energy20.9%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    1. Social Sciences3613.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities83.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting72.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance52.0%
    5. Psychology41.4%
    6. Decision Sciences31.0%
    1. Medicine2610.2%
    2. Health Professions31.0%
    3. Nursing10.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology72.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences52.1%
    3. Neuroscience41.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
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.

Neuroscience: 3.46× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.93× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 4.83× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMedicine: 2.56× its world share, 1 worksMedicine1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 8.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences8.07×0 works
  2. Materials Science4.83×0 works
  3. Neuroscience3.46×0 works
  4. Medicine2.56×1 works
  5. Computer Science0.93×0 works
  6. Engineering0.56×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Go Sheng?

The most cited paper from Go Sheng is "Measuring the exhaled breath of a manikin and human subjects" (Chunwen Xu, Peter Vilhelm Nielsen, Guangcai Gong et al., 2014), with 101 citations. Next come "Influence of air stability and metabolic rate on exhaled flow" (48) and "Solar Oscillation Frequency Changes on Time Scales of Nine Days" (26).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Measuring the exhaled breath of a manikin and human subjects Chunwen Xu, Peter Vilhelm Nielsen, Guangcai Gong et al. · Indoor Air 17 May 2014 101
2 Influence of air stability and metabolic rate on exhaled flow Chunwen Xu, Peter Vilhelm Nielsen, Guangcai Gong et al. · Indoor Air Open access 11 Jun 2014 48
3 Solar Oscillation Frequency Changes on Time Scales of Nine Days Sushanta C. Tripathy, Frank F. Hill, Kiran Jain et al. · Solar Physics Open access 23 Aug 2007 26
4 Apolipoprotein A-IMilano. Correlation between high density lipoprotein subclass distribution and triglyceridemia. Guido Franceschini, Laura Calabresi, Claudio Tosi et al. · Arteriosclerosis An Official Journal of the American Heart Association Inc Open access Jul 1987 23
5 Effect of Ethical Leadership on Moral Sensitivity in Chinese Nurses Na Zhang, Xing Bu, Zhen Xu et al. · Advances in Nursing Science 29 Apr 2021 11
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Which keywords describe research at Go Sheng?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: China, Nationalism, Remote Sensing, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Globalization and Christianity.

▲ 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. Remote Sensing15▲ 5.3×13 topics
  2. Globalization14▲ 3.1×15 topics
  3. China14▲ 29×5 topics
  4. Nationalism13▲ 8.7×5 topics
  5. Internet of Things12▲ 8.4×8 topics
  6. Cloud Computing11▲ 16×5 topics
  7. History10▲ 5.1×3 topics
  8. Machine Learning10▲ 1.83×14 topics
  9. Wireless Sensor Networks10▲ 10×4 topics
  10. Sustainability10▲ 2.1×9 topics
  11. Regulation9▲ 5.7×2 topics
  12. Religion9▲ 6.0×2 topics
  13. Christianity9▲ 30×1 topic
  14. Confucianism9▲ 36×1 topic
  15. Land Use Change8▲ 11×3 topics
  16. Neural Network8▲ 12×3 topics
  17. Virtual Reality Technology8▲ 34×2 topics
  18. Smart Grid8▲ 11×4 topics
  19. Artificial Intelligence7▲ 3.5×5 topics
  20. Power System7▲ 24×3 topics
  21. Big Data7▲ 4.9×5 topics
  22. Vocational and Technical Education7▲ 34×1 topic
  23. Web-based B2B portals7▲ 34×1 topic
  24. Data Mining7▲ 5.8×8 topics
  25. Fault Diagnosis7▲ 11×2 topics
  26. Fuzzy Logic7▲ 12×3 topics
  27. Identity7▲ 3.4×7 topics
  28. Modeling7▲ 10×2 topics
  29. Optimization6▲ 4.5×5 topics
  30. Fuzzy Control6▲ 15×2 topics
  31. Coal Seam6▲ 35×2 topics
  32. Control Systems6▲ 8.2×2 topics
  33. Numerical Simulation6▲ 6.4×5 topics
  34. Data Integration5▲ 8.6×2 topics
  35. Hyperspectral Imaging5▲ 5.8×3 topics
  36. Control System5▲ 15×3 topics
  37. Monitoring System5▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Expert Systems4▲ 14×1 topic
  39. Wavelet Analysis4▲ 17×1 topic
  40. Robotics4▲ 7.7×3 topics

Which research topics does Go Sheng publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Aortic aneurysm repair treatments, Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials and Perovskite Materials and Applications.

Aortic aneurysm repair t…0Aortic aneurysm repair treatments: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Thermoelectric …0Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices: 0 fractional worksMagnetic and transport p…0Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials: 0 fractional worksPerovskite Materials and…0Perovskite Materials and Applications: 0 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal disorders: 0 fractional worksInfant Development and Preterm Care: 0 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 0 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 0 fractional worksNeuroscience of respiration and sleep: 0 fractional worksRetinal and Macular Surgery: 0 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMaterials ChemistryElectronic, Optical and Magnetic MaterialsElectrical and Electronic Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  2. 2 Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices Materials Chemistry 0 works
  3. 3 Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 0 works
  4. 4 Perovskite Materials and Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 0 works
  6. 6 Infant Development and Preterm Care Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  7. 7 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 0 works
  8. 8 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Neuroscience of respiration and sleep Endocrine and Autonomic Systems 0 works
  10. 10 Retinal and Macular Surgery Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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 available1.5%not open98.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.8%domestic only94.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Go Sheng's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Go Sheng as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000014% in 2023.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Go Sheng0.000017% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Go Sheng over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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