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Koch Industries (United States)

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Research works
96
▲ 411% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2k
12.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
48%
world 18%
Koch Industries (United States)

Not ranked overall: Koch Industries (United States) 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 Koch Industries (United States) work in?

In all years, 92% of research at Koch Industries (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (50%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%), Environmental Science (7%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 88 fractional works · 91.7% of its workEngineering: 48 fractional works · 50.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 22 fractional works · 23.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 8.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 5.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 8.6% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 6.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMetals and Alloys: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 5.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKoch Industries(United States)96fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences92%Health Sciences1%Social 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 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering4850.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences88.6%
    3. Environmental Science77.3%
    4. Chemistry66.5%
    5. Materials Science65.8%
    6. Energy55.2%
    7. Computer Science33.2%
    8. Physics and Astronomy32.9%
    9. Mathematics11.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering11.0%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.8%
    2. Social Sciences21.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.5%
    4. Decision Sciences00.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    1. Health Professions00.5%
    2. Medicine00.3%
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 Koch Industries (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Hunter Yarborough lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Koch Industries (United States).

  1. 1 Hunter Yarborough United States · #3,147,795 worldwide 174 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Koch Industries (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Koch Industries (United States)?

The most cited paper from Koch Industries (United States) is "Numerical Calculation of Multidimensional Miscible Displacement" (Donald W. Peaceman, Henry H. Jr. Rachford, 1962), with 223 citations. Next come "Numerical Calculation of Multidimensional Miscible Displacement by the Method of Characteristics" (217) and "Econometrics of Corporate Governance Studies" (210).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Numerical Calculation of Multidimensional Miscible Displacement Donald W. Peaceman, Henry H. Jr. Rachford · Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal Dec 1962 223
2 Numerical Calculation of Multidimensional Miscible Displacement by the Method of Characteristics Arthur O. Garder, Donald W. Peaceman, Anthony L. Pozzi · Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal Mar 1964 217
3 Econometrics of Corporate Governance Studies Sanjai Bhagat, Richard H. Jefferis · The MIT Press eBooks Book chapter 21 Jun 2002 210
4 Uniqueness, stability and numerical methods for the inverse problem that arises in financial markets Ilia Bouchouev, Victor Isakov · Inverse Problems Open access 1999 175
5 Corrosion Inhibition in HCl Using Methyl Pyridines Robert C. Ayers, Norman Hackerman · Journal of The Electrochemical Society 1963 145
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Koch Industries (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Optimization, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Climate Change, Hydraulic Fracturing and Shale Gas.

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

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Optimization9▲ 18×4 topics
  2. Data Assimilation8▲ 48×1 topic
  3. Ensemble Kalman Filter8▲ 75×1 topic
  4. Climate Change8▲ 3.2×9 topics
  5. Renewable Energy8▲ 8.5×8 topics
  6. Sustainability7▲ 4.2×7 topics
  7. Machine Learning7▲ 3.3×7 topics
  8. Hydraulic Fracturing5▲ 47×2 topics
  9. Shale Gas5▲ 42×2 topics
  10. Artificial Lift Systems5▲ 169×1 topic
  11. Energy Transition5▲ 50×3 topics
  12. Fault Diagnosis5▲ 22×1 topic
  13. Nanoparticles5▲ 3.8×5 topics
  14. EROI4▲ 150×1 topic
  15. Fossil Fuels4▲ 119×1 topic
  16. Fracture Propagation4▲ 72×1 topic
  17. Gas Permeability4▲ 46×2 topics
  18. Mudstones4▲ 59×1 topic
  19. Pore Structure4▲ 41×1 topic
  20. Shale Gas Reservoirs4▲ 72×1 topic
  21. Petroleum4▲ 78×2 topics
  22. Rheological Properties4▲ 25×3 topics
  23. Environmental Impact4▲ 2.8×7 topics
  24. CO2 Sequestration4▲ 26×2 topics
  25. Vibration Analysis3▲ 12×2 topics
  26. Drilling Fluids3▲ 67×1 topic
  27. Well Integrity3▲ 67×1 topic
  28. Tectonics3▲ 19×2 topics
  29. Technology3▲ 7.1×3 topics
  30. Porous Media3▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Biodegradation3▲ 25×2 topics
  32. Mass Spectrometry3▲ 13×2 topics
  33. Corrosion2▲ 23×4 topics
  34. Emissions2▲ 13×4 topics
  35. Cultural Heritage2▲ 5.8×3 topics
  36. Oil and Gas2▲ 77×1 topic
  37. Subsea2▲ 190×1 topic
  38. Asphaltenes2▲ 93×1 topic
  39. Naphthenic Acids2▲ 93×1 topic
  40. Continental Margin2▲ 31×2 topics

Which research topics does Koch Industries (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Process Optimization and Integration, Extraction and Separation Processes, Mine drainage and remediation techniques and Integrated Energy Systems Optimization.

Process Optimization and…0Process Optimization and Integration: 0 fractional worksExtraction and Separatio…0Extraction and Separation Processes: 0 fractional worksMine drainage and remediation techniques: 0 fractional worksIntegrated Energy System…0Integrated Energy Systems Optimization: 0 fractional worksHeat transfer and superc…0Heat transfer and supercritical fluids: 0 fractional worksMining and Resource Mana…0Mining and Resource Management: 0 fractional worksThermodynamic and Exerge…0Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems: 0 fractional worksTailings Management and Properties: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Aircraft Design and Technologies: 0 fractional worksSustainable Building Design and Assessment: 0 fractional works
Control and Systems EngineeringMechanical EngineeringEnvironmental ChemistryElectrical and Electronic Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Process Optimization and Integration Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Extraction and Separation Processes Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Mine drainage and remediation techniques Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  4. 4 Integrated Energy Systems Optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Heat transfer and supercritical fluids Computational Mechanics 0 works
  6. 6 Mining and Resource Management Building and Construction 0 works
  7. 7 Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Tailings Management and Properties Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Sustainable Building Design and Assessment Building and Construction 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 available36.9%not open63.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.7%domestic only52.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Koch Industries (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 411% 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 Koch Industries (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000090% in 2020.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Koch Industries (United States)0.000038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Koch Industries (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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