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Korea Post

In research, Korea Post stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,295 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computer Science (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 14.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,005
of 22,385 · #7,204 all time
Rank in South Korea
#195
of 343
Research works
583
▲ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
12k
20.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Korea Post

What is Korea Post known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #3,295 of 10,670 15.4%99 #2235

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Korea Post 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Korea Post work in?

In 2022-now, 87% of research at Korea Post is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (49%), Engineering (20%), Physics and Astronomy (7%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 111 fractional works · 86.7% of its workComputer Science: 63 fractional works · 49.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 24 fractional works · 18.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 20 fractional works · 15.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 26 fractional works · 20.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 9 fractional works · 7.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 fractional works · 7.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 3.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 7.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKorea Post127fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences87%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences7%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science6349.3%
    2. Engineering2620.3%
    3. Physics and Astronomy97.0%
    4. Materials Science64.6%
    5. Chemistry21.3%
    6. Mathematics11.0%
    7. Environmental Science11.0%
    8. Energy10.8%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.8%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
    1. Decision Sciences32.4%
    2. Psychology21.8%
    3. Social Sciences21.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.1%
    2. Neuroscience21.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.8%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine21.6%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
    3. Nursing00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Korea Post specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 14.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 23.8 works15×
  2. Computer ScienceField · 62.9 works6.3×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.76× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.76× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.36× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.84× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 6.35× its world share, 63 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.92× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.35× its world share, 26 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.32× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.87× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 3.14× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.50× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.58× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 6.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science6.35×63 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy3.14×9 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.50×3 works
  4. Chemical Engineering2.36×1 works
  5. Engineering1.35×26 works
  6. Materials Science1.32×6 works
  7. Energy0.92×1 works
  8. Mathematics0.87×1 works
  9. Chemistry0.84×2 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.76×1 works
  11. Neuroscience0.76×2 works
  12. Psychology0.58×2 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.46×1 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.39×3 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.28×1 works
  16. Environmental Science0.20×1 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×1 works
  18. Nursing0.13×0 works
  19. Social Sciences0.12×2 works
  20. Health Professions0.09×0 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×0 works
  22. Medicine0.08×2 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Korea Post?

Ranked on the quality score, Wei Chen, Yejin Jeon and Yunsu Kim lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Korea Post.

  1. 1 Wei Chen South Korea · #3,288,386 worldwide 1 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Yejin Jeon South Korea · #3,442,235 worldwide 134 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Yunsu Kim South Korea · #3,698,750 worldwide 40 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Seonjeong Hwang South Korea · #3,819,493 worldwide 16 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Korea Post

What are the most cited papers from Korea Post?

The most cited paper from Korea Post is "Learning Deconvolution Network for Semantic Segmentation" (Hyeonwoo Noh, Seunghoon Hong, Bohyung Han, 2015), with 4,077 citations. Next come "Learning Multi-domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking" (2,850) and "FactSage thermochemical software and databases, 2010–2016" (2,069).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Learning Deconvolution Network for Semantic Segmentation Hyeonwoo Noh, Seunghoon Hong, Bohyung Han Conference paper Dec 2015 4,077
2 Learning Multi-domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking Hyeonseob Nam, Bohyung Han Conference paper Jun 2016 2,850
3 FactSage thermochemical software and databases, 2010–2016 Christopher William Bale, Ève Bélisle, Patrice Chartrand et al. · Calphad Open access 9 Jun 2016 2,069
4 Relational Knowledge Distillation Wonpyo Park, Dongju Kim, Yan Lu et al. Conference paper Jun 2019 1,702
5 Fast motion deblurring Sunghyun Cho, Seungyong Lee · ACM Transactions on Graphics Dec 2009 969
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Korea Post?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Convolutional Networks, Unsupervised Learning, Representation Learning, Depth Estimation and Semi-Supervised Learning.

▲ 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-now 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. Deep Learning30▲ 6.8×45 topics
  2. Neural Networks15▲ 7.8×20 topics
  3. Convolutional Neural Networks9▲ 10×11 topics
  4. Convolutional Networks7▲ 39×3 topics
  5. Unsupervised Learning7▲ 35×3 topics
  6. Machine Learning6▲ 1.46×26 topics
  7. Representation Learning4▲ 22×3 topics
  8. Depth Estimation4▲ 36×2 topics
  9. Semi-Supervised Learning4▲ 23×3 topics
  10. Generative Adversarial Networks3▲ 29×2 topics
  11. Simulation3▲ 9.6×4 topics
  12. Pose Estimation3▲ 21×3 topics
  13. Optical Flow3▲ 48×1 topic
  14. Stereo Vision3▲ 48×1 topic
  15. Information Retrieval3▲ 10×3 topics
  16. Meta-Learning3▲ 25×2 topics
  17. Text Classification3▲ 13×2 topics
  18. Transfer Learning3▲ 11×2 topics
  19. 3D Reconstruction3▲ 22×2 topics
  20. Deep Neural Networks3▲ 17×2 topics
  21. Machine Translation3▲ 12×1 topic
  22. Point Clouds3▲ 22×2 topics
  23. Word Representation3▲ 16×1 topic
  24. Computer Graphics2▲ 75×1 topic
  25. Visualization2▲ 34×1 topic
  26. Domain Adaptation2▲ 34×1 topic
  27. Few-Shot Learning2▲ 34×1 topic
  28. Image Captioning2▲ 33×1 topic
  29. Neural Machine Translation2▲ 20×1 topic
  30. Sparse Representation2▲ 10×5 topics
  31. Statistical Machine Translation2▲ 20×1 topic
  32. Visual Question Answering2▲ 20×1 topic
  33. Acoustic Modeling2▲ 48×1 topic
  34. Image Classification2▲ 9.4×2 topics
  35. Speaker Verification2▲ 48×1 topic
  36. Action Recognition2▲ 36×1 topic
  37. Mesh Segmentation2▲ 56×1 topic
  38. Parallel Computing2▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Shape Representation2▲ 56×1 topic
  40. Spatiotemporal Features2▲ 36×1 topic

Which research topics does Korea Post publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Vision and Imaging, Topic Modeling, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications.

Advanced Vision and Imag…3Advanced Vision and Imaging: 3 fractional worksTopic Modeling3Topic Modeling: 3 fractional worksComputer Graphics and Visualization Techniques: 2 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 2 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 2 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 2 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 2 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Re…2Human Pose and Action Recognition: 2 fractional works3D Shape Modeling and Analysis: 2 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Processing: 2 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignComputational Mechanics1 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3 works
  2. 2 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  3. 3 Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 2 works
  4. 4 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  5. 5 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  6. 6 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  7. 7 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  8. 8 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  9. 9 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis Computational Mechanics 2 works
  10. 10 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 2 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 available28.9%not open71.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.1%domestic only73.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Korea Post's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
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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 Korea Post as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00055% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Korea Post0.00060% in 2025200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Korea Post10.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.4% in 2014.

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