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KISS Institute for Practical Robotics

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Research works
13
▼ 62% vs 2018-21
Citations
146
11.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
1%
world 18%
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics

Not ranked overall: KISS Institute for Practical Robotics 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 KISS Institute for Practical Robotics work in?

In all years, 88% of research at KISS Institute for Practical Robotics is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (37%), Engineering (37%), Physics and Astronomy (15%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 88.3% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 36.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 13.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 10.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 9.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 36.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 8.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 14.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 13.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workALL ITS WORKKISS Institutefor Practical…13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences3%

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 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science536.8%
    2. Engineering536.8%
    3. Physics and Astronomy214.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology17.6%
    1. Social Sciences02.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities00.8%
    1. Medicine00.8%
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 KISS Institute for Practical Robotics?

The most cited paper from KISS Institute for Practical Robotics is "Assistive robotics: An overview" (DAVID P. MILLER, 1998), with 69 citations. Next come "The Sample Handling System for the Mars Icebreaker Life Mission: From Dirt to Data" (27) and "Botball: Autonomous Students Engineering Autonomous Robots" (26).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Assistive robotics: An overview DAVID P. MILLER · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1998 69
2 The Sample Handling System for the Mars Icebreaker Life Mission: From Dirt to Data Arwen I. Dave, Sarah J. Thompson, Christopher P. McKay et al. · Astrobiology Apr 2013 27
3 Botball: Autonomous Students Engineering Autonomous Robots Cathryne Stein Conference paperOpen access 3 Sep 2020 26
4 The XBC: a modern low-cost mobile robot controller R. LeGrand, K. Machulis, Miller DP et al. Conference paper 2005 21
5 Botball Robotics And Gender Differences In Middle School Teams Cathryne Stein Conference paperOpen access 3 Sep 2020 20
All 22 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does KISS Institute for Practical Robotics publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Teaching and Learning Programming, Experimental Learning in Engineering, Engineering Education and Pedagogy and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

Teaching and Learning Pr…0Teaching and Learning Programming: 0 fractional worksExperimental Learning in…0Experimental Learning in Engineering: 0 fractional worksEngineering Education an…0Engineering Education and Pedagogy: 0 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 0 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 0 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Scie…0Astro and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works
Computer Science ApplicationsMedia TechnologyArchitectureAstronomy and Astrophysics

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

  1. 1 Teaching and Learning Programming Computer Science Applications 0 works
  2. 2 Experimental Learning in Engineering Media Technology 0 works
  3. 3 Engineering Education and Pedagogy Architecture 0 works
  4. 4 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  5. 5 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  6. 6 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 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 available34.7%not open65.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors1.1%domestic only98.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has KISS Institute for Practical Robotics's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% 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 KISS Institute for Practical Robotics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000045% in 2024.

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Fractional works of KISS Institute for Practical Robotics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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