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IPCOS (Belgium)

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Research works
37
▼ 67% vs 2018-21
Citations
473
12.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
64%
world 18%
IPCOS (Belgium)

Not ranked overall: IPCOS (Belgium) 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 IPCOS (Belgium) work in?

In all years, 58% of research at IPCOS (Belgium) is in Physical Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (53%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (11%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 22 fractional works · 57.9% of its workEngineering: 20 fractional works · 53.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 11 fractional works · 28.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 7 fractional works · 17.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 27.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 10.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 7.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 6.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 10.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 6.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKIPCOS (Belgium)37fractional works, all years
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences28%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2053.5%
    2. Computer Science11.5%
    3. Environmental Science00.9%
    4. Mathematics00.7%
    5. Chemistry00.6%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.5%
    7. Energy00.3%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance410.7%
    2. Social Sciences37.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting26.0%
    4. Decision Sciences11.6%
    5. Psychology01.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences36.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.4%
    1. Medicine14.0%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
    3. Nursing00.1%
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: 3.09× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5.87× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Energy: 2.96× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 1.34× its world share, 1 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.77× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.58× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.87×1 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.58×0 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.09×1 works
  4. Energy2.96×0 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.77×0 works
  6. Medicine1.34×1 works
  7. Environmental Science0.41×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.35×0 works
  9. Engineering0.23×0 works

Who are the top researchers at IPCOS (Belgium)?

Ranked on the quality score, Wim Van Brempt lead among researchers whose main affiliation is IPCOS (Belgium).

  1. 1 Wim Van Brempt Belgium · #4,125,606 worldwide 64 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at IPCOS (Belgium)

What are the most cited papers from IPCOS (Belgium)?

The most cited paper from IPCOS (Belgium) is "Subsidies and distortions in China’s agriculture: evidence from producer‐level data*" (Jikun Huang, Xiaobing Wang, Huayong Zhi et al., 2011), with 204 citations. Next come "Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?" (167) and "Income elasticities for food, calories and nutrients across Africa: A meta-analysis" (144).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Subsidies and distortions in China’s agriculture: evidence from producer‐level data* Jikun Huang, Xiaobing Wang, Huayong Zhi et al. · Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Open access 2011 204
2 Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics? Giacomo Davide De Luca, Roland Hodler, Paul A. Raschky et al. · Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen) 9 Oct 2018 167
3 Income elasticities for food, calories and nutrients across Africa: A meta-analysis Liesbeth Colen, Patrícia C. Melo, Yakubu Abdul‐Salam et al. · Food Policy ReviewOpen access 19 Apr 2018 144
4 Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia Bart Minten, Mekdim Dereje, Ermias Engida et al. · World Development Open access 27 Sep 2017 91
5 Estimating the effects of agri-environmental measures using difference-in-difference coarsened exact matching Danilo Bertoni, Daniele Curzi, Giacomo Aletti et al. · Food Policy Open access 18 Dec 2019 77
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at IPCOS (Belgium)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Optimization, Machine Learning, Artificial Lift Systems, Fault Diagnosis, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Fault Detection and Process Monitoring.

▲ 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 26 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Machine Learning7▲ 8.8×5 topics
  2. Optimization7▲ 35×4 topics
  3. Artificial Lift Systems4▲ 367×1 topic
  4. Fault Diagnosis4▲ 49×1 topic
  5. Data Assimilation4▲ 58×1 topic
  6. Ensemble Kalman Filter4▲ 92×1 topic
  7. Fault Detection2▲ 56×1 topic
  8. Process Monitoring2▲ 67×1 topic
  9. Stability Analysis2▲ 31×2 topics
  10. Drilling Fluids2▲ 118×1 topic
  11. Well Integrity2▲ 118×1 topic
  12. Nonlinear Systems2▲ 27×2 topics
  13. Globalization2▲ 3.1×10 topics
  14. Model Predictive Control2▲ 23×1 topic
  15. Robust Control2▲ 53×1 topic
  16. Sustainability2▲ 2.9×8 topics
  17. Economic Development2▲ 7.1×8 topics
  18. Energy Efficiency2▲ 5.0×4 topics
  19. Hydraulic Fracturing2▲ 34×1 topic
  20. Innovation2▲ 4.5×5 topics
  21. Shale Gas Reservoirs2▲ 67×1 topic
  22. International Trade1▲ 25×2 topics
  23. Technology1▲ 8.2×3 topics
  24. Biodiversity1▲ 4.0×2 topics
  25. Productivity1▲ 48×1 topic
  26. Trade Liberalization1▲ 48×1 topic

Which research topics does IPCOS (Belgium) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cancer-related Molecular Pathways, Fibroblast Growth Factor Research, Organic Food and Agriculture and Protein Degradation and Inhibitors.

Cancer-related Molecular Pathways: 1 fractional worksFibroblast Growth Factor Research: 0 fractional worksOrganic Food and Agriculture: 0 fractional worksProtein Degradation and Inhibitors: 0 fractional worksMarket Dynamics and Volatility: 0 fractional worksChromatin Remodeling and Cancer: 0 fractional worksClimate change impacts o…0Climate change impacts on agriculture: 0 fractional worksMechanisms of cancer metastasis: 0 fractional worksCancer Mechanisms and Therapy: 0 fractional worksPeptidase Inhibition and Analysis: 0 fractional works
OncologyMolecular BiologyPlant ScienceEconomics and Econometrics2 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer-related Molecular Pathways Oncology 1 works
  2. 2 Fibroblast Growth Factor Research Molecular Biology 0 works
  3. 3 Organic Food and Agriculture Plant Science 0 works
  4. 4 Protein Degradation and Inhibitors Molecular Biology 0 works
  5. 5 Market Dynamics and Volatility Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  6. 6 Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer Molecular Biology 0 works
  7. 7 Climate change impacts on agriculture Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  8. 8 Mechanisms of cancer metastasis Molecular Biology 0 works
  9. 9 Cancer Mechanisms and Therapy Pathology and Forensic Medicine 0 works
  10. 10 Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis Oncology 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 available31.4%not open68.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors63.6%domestic only36.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has IPCOS (Belgium)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 67% 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 IPCOS (Belgium) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000060% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%IPCOS (Belgium)0.000033% in 202520102020

Fractional works of IPCOS (Belgium) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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