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KGS Group (Canada)

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Research works
12
▲ 184% vs 2018-21
Citations
189
15.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
KGS Group (Canada)

Not ranked overall: KGS Group (Canada) 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 KGS Group (Canada) work in?

In all years, 96% of research at KGS Group (Canada) is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (38%), Engineering (35%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 95.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 38.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 11.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 8.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 34.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 20.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 19.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 14.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workALL ITS WORKKGS Group(Canada)12fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences96%Social Sciences1%

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 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science538.3%
    2. Engineering434.6%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences219.2%
    4. Materials Science02.9%
    5. Energy00.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.7%
    1. Social Sciences01.4%
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.

What are the most cited papers from KGS Group (Canada)?

The most cited paper from KGS Group (Canada) is "Regional Flood Frequency with Hierarchical Region of Influence" (Zolt Zrinji, Donald H. Burn, 1996), with 54 citations. Next come "Comparative testing of numerical models of river ice jams" (49) and "Ice Jam Modelling of the Lower Red River" (40).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Regional Flood Frequency with Hierarchical Region of Influence Zolt Zrinji, Donald H. Burn · Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Jul 1996 54
2 Comparative testing of numerical models of river ice jams Rick Carson, Spyros Beltaos, Joe Groeneveld et al. · Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering Jun 2011 49
3 Ice Jam Modelling of the Lower Red River Karl‐Erich Lindenschmidt, Maurice Sydor, R. J. Carson et al. · Journal of Water Resource and Protection Open access 2012 40
4 Three‐dimensional simulation of high‐frequency nonlinear internal wave dynamics in C ayuga L ake Abbas Dorostkar, Leon Boegman, A. Pollard · Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans 21 Jan 2017 36
5 Flooding in the Red River Basin – Lessons from Post Flood Activities Slobodan P. Simonović, Richard W. Carson · Natural Hazards Mar 2003 34
All 30 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does KGS Group (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Landfill Environmental Impact Studies, Coastal Management and Development, Landslides and related hazards and Water and Land Management.

Landfill Environmental I…1Landfill Environmental Impact Studies: 1 fractional worksCoastal Management and Development: 0 fractional worksLandslides and related h…0Landslides and related hazards: 0 fractional worksWater and Land Management0Water and Land Management: 0 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 0 fractional worksRock Mechanics and Modeling: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering…0Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental remediation with nanomaterials: 0 fractional worksInnovative concrete rein…0Innovative concrete reinforcement materials: 0 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawAtmospheric ScienceMechanics of Materials2 others

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

  1. 1 Landfill Environmental Impact Studies Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  2. 2 Coastal Management and Development Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  3. 3 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  4. 4 Water and Land Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  5. 5 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 0 works
  6. 6 Rock Mechanics and Modeling Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  7. 7 Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Environmental remediation with nanomaterials Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials Civil and Structural Engineering 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 available29.1%not open70.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.9%domestic only74.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has KGS Group (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 184% higher 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 KGS Group (Canada) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000016% in 2023.

0.000050%0.00010%KGS Group (Canada)0.000036% in 2024200020102020

Fractional works of KGS Group (Canada) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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