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Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute

In research, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,854 of 12,888 worldwide), Engineering (#2,136 of 6,636 worldwide) and Materials Science (#1,203 of 2,468 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Radiation, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality — Radiation is 28.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,052
of 28,054 · #1,213 all time
Rank in South Korea
#97
of 417
Research works
12k
▼ 35% vs 2013–17
Citations
138k
11.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
26%
world 28%

What is Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #2,854 of 12,888 13.3%973 #785
EngineeringField #2,136 of 6,636 15.4%503 #528
Materials ScienceField #1,203 of 2,468 10.1%193 #261
Materials ChemistrySubfield #979 of 1,556 10.9%156 #193
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #562 of 795 29.6%109 #163
Physics and AstronomyField #1,181 of 1,646 13.1%82 #949
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #1,018 of 1,351 11.5%89 #539
Life SciencesDomain #5,952 of 7,800 20.0%82 #8701
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #1,900 of 2,318 11.6%73 #1714
Environmental ScienceField #3,177 of 3,551 9.2%77 #3549

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#785 #2,854
  2. Engineering#528 #2,136
  3. Materials Science#261 #1,203
  4. Materials Chemistry#193 #979
  5. Aerospace Engineering#163 #562
  6. Physics and Astronomy#949 #1,181
  7. Mechanical Engineering#539 #1,018
  8. Life Sciences#8,701 #5,952
  9. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#1,714 #1,900
  10. Environmental Science#3,549 #3,177
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Radiation takes 28.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. RadiationSubfield · 46.4 works29×
  2. Statistics, Probability and UncertaintySubfield · 33.6 works17×
  3. Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 30.6 works11×
  4. Inorganic ChemistrySubfield · 29.1 works10.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.66× its world share, 37 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.59× its world share, 37 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.80× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 3.72× its world share, 15 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.25× its world share, 41 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.36× its world share, 33 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 15 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.16× its world share, 12 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.87× its world share, 503 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.32× its world share, 77 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 4.71× its world share, 193 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 3.14× its world share, 82 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.51× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 49 worksMedicineNursing: 0.66× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.13× its world share, 36 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Materials Science, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, Maurice Lee, Chul-Hwa Song and Changsoo Lee lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute.

  1. 1 Maurice Lee South Korea · #18,254 worldwide 370 citations · 47 works
  2. 2 Chul-Hwa Song South Korea · #128,550 worldwide 185 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Changsoo Lee South Korea · #207,630 worldwide 136 citations · 41 works
  4. 4 Jinkyun Park South Korea · #230,620 worldwide 124 citations · 47 works
  5. 5 Jae Hun Kim South Korea · #236,023 worldwide 65 citations · 30 works
  6. 6 Byung‐Ho Lee South Korea · #245,864 worldwide 125 citations · 35 works
  7. 7 Wanchuck Woo South Korea · #285,714 worldwide 184 citations · 36 works
  8. 8 Jong-Yeol Kim South Korea · #287,338 worldwide 67 citations · 47 works
  9. 9 Jae Woo Kim South Korea · #288,739 worldwide 297 citations · 53 works
  10. 10 Seok Cho South Korea · #302,258 worldwide 103 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute

Which keywords describe research at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Hydrogen Embrittlement, Oxidation Resistance, High Temperature Behavior, Density Functional Theory, Accident Tolerant Fuels, Fuel Cladding, Molten Salt and Nuclear Reactor.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Hydrogen Embrittlement62▲ 63×3 topics
  2. Oxidation Resistance52▲ 42×3 topics
  3. High Temperature Behavior51▲ 74×2 topics
  4. Density Functional Theory51▲ 42×4 topics
  5. Accident Tolerant Fuels50▲ 116×1 topic
  6. Fuel Cladding50▲ 116×1 topic
  7. Molten Salt47▲ 124×1 topic
  8. Nuclear Reactor47▲ 124×1 topic
  9. Adsorption43▲ 18×7 topics
  10. Reliability Evaluation42▲ 70×3 topics
  11. Mechanical Properties39▲ 3.4×27 topics
  12. Actinides37▲ 60×2 topics
  13. Large Eddy Simulation34▲ 90×2 topics
  14. Safety Assessment34▲ 71×2 topics
  15. Passive Systems34▲ 189×1 topic
  16. Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis34▲ 189×1 topic
  17. Microstructure32▲ 5.2×17 topics
  18. Health Effects31▲ 4.4×11 topics
  19. Heat Transfer30▲ 5.1×13 topics
  20. Raman Spectroscopy28▲ 12×6 topics
  21. Radionuclides28▲ 62×2 topics
  22. Thermal Properties27▲ 19×6 topics
  23. Bayesian Networks27▲ 26×1 topic
  24. Fault Tree Analysis27▲ 47×1 topic
  25. Bioremediation26▲ 18×5 topics
  26. Oxidation Behavior26▲ 36×2 topics
  27. Extraction26▲ 17×3 topics
  28. Sorption25▲ 45×2 topics
  29. Coordination Chemistry25▲ 33×2 topics
  30. Lanthanides25▲ 47×1 topic
  31. Uranium25▲ 61×1 topic
  32. Crystal Growth24▲ 7.5×11 topics
  33. Data Analysis24▲ 7.4×7 topics
  34. Environmental Impacts24▲ 7.4×6 topics
  35. Tomography24▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Finite Element Analysis23▲ 8.6×8 topics
  37. Radiation Detection23▲ 44×2 topics
  38. Microstructural Characterization22▲ 88×1 topic
  39. Nuclear Graphite22▲ 88×1 topic
  40. Small-Angle Scattering21▲ 33×2 topics

Which research topics does Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Nuclear Materials and Properties, Nuclear reactor physics and engineering, Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics and Risk and Safety Analysis.

Nuclear Materials and Properties: 50 fractional worksNuclear reactor physics and engineering: 47 fractional worksNuclear Engineering Ther…34Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics: 34 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis27Risk and Safety Analysis: 27 fractional worksRadioactive element chemistry and processing: 25 fractional worksGraphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies: 22 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Appl…21Nuclear Physics and Applications: 21 fractional worksRadiation Detection and …21Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies: 21 fractional worksNuclear and radioactivit…20Nuclear and radioactivity studies: 20 fractional worksRadioactive contaminatio…18Radioactive contamination and transfer: 18 fractional works
Materials ChemistryAerospace EngineeringStatistics, Probability and UncertaintyInorganic Chemistry3 others

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

  1. 1 Nuclear Materials and Properties Materials Chemistry 50 works
  2. 2 Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Aerospace Engineering 47 works
  3. 3 Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics Aerospace Engineering 34 works
  4. 4 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 27 works
  5. 5 Radioactive element chemistry and processing Inorganic Chemistry 25 works
  6. 6 Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies Materials Chemistry 22 works
  7. 7 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 21 works
  8. 8 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies Radiation 21 works
  9. 9 Nuclear and radioactivity studies Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 20 works
  10. 10 Radioactive contamination and transfer Global and Planetary Change 18 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 available25.9%not open74.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.9%domestic only91.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% lower than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.

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