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Kiwa

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Research works
5
▼ 90% vs 2018-21
Citations
130
23.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Kiwa

Not ranked overall: Kiwa 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 Kiwa work in?

In all years, 94% of research at Kiwa is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (40%), Engineering (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (18%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 94.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 39.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 21.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 9.2% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 9.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 20.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 7.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 18.0% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 6.1% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 6.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 6.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workALL ITS WORKKiwa5fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences94%Health Sciences6%

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 2 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science239.8%
    2. Engineering120.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences118.0%
    4. Chemistry06.1%
    5. Computer Science06.1%
    6. Physics and Astronomy03.1%
    7. Chemical Engineering01.3%
    1. Health Professions03.9%
    2. Medicine01.8%
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 Kiwa?

The most cited paper from Kiwa is "The occurrence of organic micropollutants in the river Rhine and the river Maas in 1974" (Artūrs Meijers, R.Chr. van der Leer, 1976), with 68 citations. Next come "Determination of the herbicide amitrole in water with pre-column derivatization, liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry" (35) and "Quality aspects of ozonisation" (9).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The occurrence of organic micropollutants in the river Rhine and the river Maas in 1974 Artūrs Meijers, R.Chr. van der Leer · Water Research 1976 68
2 Determination of the herbicide amitrole in water with pre-column derivatization, liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry I. Bobeldijk, K Broess, P Speksnijder et al. · Journal of Chromatography A Dec 2001 35
3 Quality aspects of ozonisation Artūrs Meijers · Water Research 1977 9
4 Evaluation of transgression-regression events in the Upper Famennian-Tournaisian strata of the Southeastern Omolon area (NE-Siberia, USSR) Rudy Swennen, Martin J.M. Bless, Jos Bouckaert et al. · Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique 5 Aug 2010 7
5 Predictive Modelling of Fractured Reservoirs Using Geomechanics and Flow Simulation Stephen Bourne, A. Rijkels, Ben J. Stephenson et al. · EAGE Conference on Geology and Petroleum Geology of the Mediterranean and Circum-Mediterranean Basins Conference paperOpen access 2000 4
All 11 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Kiwa publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes, Catalysts for Methane Reforming and Iron and Steelmaking Processes.

  1. 1 Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes 0 works
  2. 2 Catalysts for Methane Reforming Catalysis 0 works
  3. 3 Iron and Steelmaking Processes Mechanical 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 available19.9%not open80.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.5%domestic only79.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kiwa's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 90% 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 Kiwa as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000027% in 2021.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Kiwa0.0000019% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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