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Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)

In research, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,191 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#2,755 of 5,901 worldwide) and Mechanical Engineering (#1,135 of 1,319 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Geophysics (Ocean Engineering is 65.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,779
of 22,385 · #11,429 all time
Rank in Kuwait
#7
of 23
Research works
2.6k
▲ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
5.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.79×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
10%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)

What is Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) 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 #3,191 of 10,670 3.2%504 #5269
EngineeringField #2,755 of 5,901 2.8%393 #4421
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #1,135 of 1,319 1.1%90 #1862
Ocean EngineeringSubfield #270 of 301 1.2%198 #526

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Physical Sciences#5,269 #3,191
  2. Engineering#4,421 #2,755
  3. Mechanical Engineering#1,862 #1,135
  4. Ocean Engineering#526 #270
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (66%), Medicine (7%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (5%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 613 fractional works · 85.6% of its workEngineering: 472 fractional works · 65.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 242 fractional works · 33.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 106 fractional works · 14.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 43 fractional works · 6.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 19 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 16 fractional works · 2.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 39 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGeophysics: 21 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 30 fractional works · 4.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 13 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 28 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 18 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 12 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMetals and Alloys: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 57 fractional works · 7.9% of its workMedicine: 49 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 33 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKuwait PetroleumCorporation…716fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences5%

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. Engineering47265.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences395.4%
    3. Computer Science304.2%
    4. Environmental Science283.9%
    5. Materials Science182.5%
    6. Energy101.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy81.2%
    8. Chemistry60.9%
    9. Chemical Engineering20.2%
    10. Mathematics10.1%
    1. Medicine496.8%
    2. Health Professions60.9%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    1. Social Sciences101.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting81.1%
    3. Decision Sciences71.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.6%
    5. Psychology30.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology91.2%
    2. Neuroscience20.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 65.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 242.4 works65×
  2. Mechanics of MaterialsSubfield · 43.1 works8.4×
  3. GeophysicsSubfield · 21.0 works8.4×
  4. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 105.7 works8.0×
← 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: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.23× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.70× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.55× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.54× its world share, 30 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.46× its world share, 39 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.46× its world share, 10 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.39× its world share, 472 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.78× its world share, 28 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.71× its world share, 18 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.53× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.33× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.35× its world share, 49 worksMedicineNursing: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.35× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering4.39×472 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.46×39 works
  3. Energy1.46×10 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.06×7 works
  5. Environmental Science0.78×28 works
  6. Materials Science0.71×18 works
  7. Chemical Engineering0.70×2 works
  8. Chemistry0.55×6 works
  9. Computer Science0.54×30 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.53×8 works
  11. Medicine0.35×49 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.35×8 works
  13. Health Professions0.33×6 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.27×4 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×1 works
  16. Dentistry0.25×1 works
  17. Nursing0.25×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.23×9 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.17×1 works
  20. Neuroscience0.16×2 works
  21. Psychology0.15×3 works
  22. Mathematics0.11×1 works
  23. Social Sciences0.11×10 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.03×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)?

Ranked on the quality score, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, D.M. Forsyth and Sunil Kumar Singh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait).

  1. 1 Mohamed Abdel-Basset Kuwait · #709,238 worldwide 1.1k citations · 44 works
  2. 2 D.M. Forsyth Kuwait · #2,022,715 worldwide 581 citations · 39 works
  3. 3 Sunil Kumar Singh Kuwait · #2,151,007 worldwide 947 citations · 70 works
  4. 4 Demetrios V Yannimaras Kuwait · #2,418,698 worldwide 387 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Malcolm John Pitts Kuwait · #2,421,178 worldwide 1.1k citations · 66 works
  6. 6 Jeroen Besamusca Kuwait · #2,877,307 worldwide 623 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Terje Andreas Tonsberg Kuwait · #3,141,551 worldwide 21 citations · 31 works
  8. 8 Jeffrey Shawn Henderson Kuwait · #3,154,365 worldwide 26 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Siddhartha Shankar Sharma Kuwait · #3,296,540 worldwide 314 citations · 29 works
  10. 10 H. K. Goel Kuwait · #3,489,425 worldwide 287 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)

What are the most cited papers from Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)?

The most cited paper from Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) is "Death and contagious infectious diseases: Impact of the COVID-19 virus on stock market returns" (Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Khaled Alsaifi et al., 2020), with 1,454 citations. Next come "CFD modeling of flow and heat transfer in a thermosyphon" (370) and "Experimental and CFD studies on heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of a tube equipped with modified twisted tape inserts" (315).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Death and contagious infectious diseases: Impact of the COVID-19 virus on stock market returns Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Abdullah M. Al-Awadhi, Khaled Alsaifi et al. · Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance Open access 8 Apr 2020 1,454
2 CFD modeling of flow and heat transfer in a thermosyphon Asghar Alizadehdakhel, Masoud Rahimi, Ammar Abdulaziz Alsairafi · International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 23 Oct 2009 370
3 Experimental and CFD studies on heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of a tube equipped with modified twisted tape inserts Masoud Rahimi, Sayed Reza Shabanian, Ammar Abdulaziz Alsairafi · Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification 2 Oct 2008 315
4 Development of a Real-Time Emotion Recognition System Using Facial Expressions and EEG based on machine learning and deep neural network methods Aya Hassouneh, A. M. Mutawa, M. Murugappan · Informatics in Medicine Unlocked Open access 2020 276
5 Analysis of EOR projects and updated screening criteria Ahmad Al Adasani, Baojun Bai · Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 2 Aug 2011 261
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Optimization, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Uncertainty Quantification, Well Placement, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracture Propagation and Shale Gas Reservoirs.

▲ 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. Optimization101▲ 31×12 topics
  2. Data Assimilation97▲ 83×4 topics
  3. Ensemble Kalman Filter97▲ 133×2 topics
  4. Uncertainty Quantification96▲ 171×1 topic
  5. Well Placement96▲ 301×1 topic
  6. Hydraulic Fracturing89▲ 117×2 topics
  7. Fracture Propagation88▲ 206×1 topic
  8. Shale Gas Reservoirs88▲ 206×1 topic
  9. Nanoparticles71▲ 7.9×14 topics
  10. CO2 Sequestration70▲ 50×3 topics
  11. Machine Learning68▲ 2.9×42 topics
  12. Vibration Analysis68▲ 35×3 topics
  13. Rheological Properties67▲ 52×4 topics
  14. Drilling Fluids66▲ 176×1 topic
  15. Well Integrity66▲ 176×1 topic
  16. Fault Diagnosis45▲ 44×3 topics
  17. Artificial Lift Systems44▲ 226×1 topic
  18. Electric Submersible Pumps44▲ 226×1 topic
  19. Shale Gas34▲ 40×2 topics
  20. Mudstones34▲ 64×1 topic
  21. Pore Structure34▲ 38×1 topic
  22. Porous Media34▲ 35×5 topics
  23. Nanofluids28▲ 47×2 topics
  24. Pore-scale Modeling27▲ 101×1 topic
  25. X-ray Computed Tomography27▲ 101×1 topic
  26. Sustainability19◆ 1.09×22 topics
  27. Geophysical Imaging19▲ 49×2 topics
  28. Renewable Energy16▲ 1.52×25 topics
  29. Inverse Problems14▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Full-Waveform Tomography14▲ 46×1 topic
  31. Seismic Waveform Inversion14▲ 46×1 topic
  32. Energy Efficiency12▲ 1.81×16 topics
  33. Numerical Simulation8▲ 3.7×8 topics
  34. Biodegradation6▲ 8.9×3 topics
  35. Plate Tectonics6▲ 5.7×3 topics
  36. Process Monitoring6▲ 8.9×2 topics
  37. Petroleum6▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Continental Margin5▲ 13×2 topics
  39. Crustal Structure5▲ 13×2 topics
  40. Pitting Corrosion5▲ 14×2 topics

Which research topics does Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering and Oil and Gas Production Techniques.

Reservoir Engineering an…96Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 96 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and…88Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 88 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 66 fractional worksOil and Gas Production Techniques: 44 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 34 fractional worksEnhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 27 fractional worksSeismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 14 fractional worksPetroleum Processing and Analysis: 5 fractional worksCorrosion Behavior and Inhibition: 5 fractional worksNMR spectroscopy and applications: 5 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsGeophysics3 others

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

  1. 1 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 96 works
  2. 2 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 88 works
  3. 3 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 66 works
  4. 4 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 44 works
  5. 5 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 34 works
  6. 6 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 27 works
  7. 7 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 14 works
  8. 8 Petroleum Processing and Analysis Analytical Chemistry 5 works
  9. 9 Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition Materials Chemistry 5 works
  10. 10 NMR spectroscopy and applications Nuclear and High Energy Physics 5 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 available10.3%not open89.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.1%domestic only68.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)0.0028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait) 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)5.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 7.0% in 2004.

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