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Illinois Clean Coal Institute

Research works
18
▲ 33% vs 2018-21
Citations
349
19.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
2%
world 40%
International
2%
world 18%

Not ranked overall: Illinois Clean Coal Institute is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Illinois Clean Coal Institute work in?

In all years, 89% of research at Illinois Clean Coal Institute is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (55%), Environmental Science (16%), Materials Science (11%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 89.1% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 55.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 31.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 8.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 16.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 11.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 9.4% of its workCeramics and Composites: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKIllinois CleanCoal Institute18fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences89%Health 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 3 domains and 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1055.4%
    2. Environmental Science316.1%
    3. Materials Science211.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.8%
    5. Chemical Engineering01.0%
    6. Computer Science00.6%
    1. Medicine18.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.7%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Illinois Clean Coal Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Francois Botha lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Illinois Clean Coal Institute.

  1. 1 Francois Botha United States · #4,649,264 worldwide 130 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Illinois Clean Coal Institute

What are the most cited papers from Illinois Clean Coal Institute?

The most cited paper from Illinois Clean Coal Institute is "Application of the Falcon Concentrator for fine coal cleaning" (Rick Q. Honaker, D. Wang, Kok Lian Ho, 1996), with 108 citations. Next come "Non-thermal plasma remediation of SO2/NO using a dielectric-barrier discharge" (95) and "Performance Optimization of the FGX Dry Separator for Cleaning High-Sulfur Coal" (87).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Application of the Falcon Concentrator for fine coal cleaning Rick Q. Honaker, D. Wang, Kok Lian Ho · Minerals Engineering Nov 1996 108
2 Non-thermal plasma remediation of SO2/NO using a dielectric-barrier discharge Wanming Sun, Bijan Pashaie, Shirshak Kumar Dhali et al. · Journal of Applied Physics Apr 1996 95
3 Performance Optimization of the FGX Dry Separator for Cleaning High-Sulfur Coal B. Zhang, Hamid Akbari, Feihua Yang et al. · International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization May 2011 87
4 Factors Affecting Mercury Speciation in a 100-MW Coal-Fired Boiler with Low-NOx Burners Shawn Kellie, Yan Feng Cao, Yufeng Duan et al. · Energy & Fuels 11 Feb 2005 80
5 Producing Ammonium Sulfate from Flue Gas Desulfurization By-Products Mei-In Melissa Chou, J.A. Bruinius, Vincent Benig et al. · Energy Sources Aug 2005 52
All 38 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Illinois Clean Coal Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Species Distribution and Climate Change, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Biological Control of Invasive Species and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues.

  1. 1 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 0 works
  2. 2 Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies Ecology 0 works
  3. 3 Biological Control of Invasive Species Insect Science 0 works
  4. 4 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  5. 5 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  6. 6 Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 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 available2.1%not open97.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.3%domestic only97.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Illinois Clean Coal Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher 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 Illinois Clean Coal Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000050% in 2018.

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Fractional works of Illinois Clean Coal Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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