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Litani River Authority

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Research works
17
▲ 146% vs 2018-21
Citations
282
16.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
52%
world 18%
Litani River Authority

Not ranked overall: Litani River Authority is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Litani River Authority work in?

In all years, 91% of research at Litani River Authority is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (56%), Engineering (24%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (5%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 15 fractional works · 91.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 56.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 21.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 11.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 24.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 10.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKLitani RiverAuthority17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences91%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 3 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science956.1%
    2. Engineering424.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.3%
    4. Computer Science13.9%
    5. Mathematics01.7%
    1. Social Sciences14.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.2%
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 Litani River Authority?

The most cited paper from Litani River Authority is "Geostatistical Assessment of Groundwater Nitrate Contamination with Reflection on DRASTIC Vulnerability Assessment: The Case of the Upper Litani Basin, Lebanon" (Hamed Assaf, Mark G. Saadeh, 2008), with 129 citations. Next come "Assessing water quality management options in the Upper Litani Basin, Lebanon, using an integrated GIS-based decision support system" (101) and "Response of potato to full and deficit irrigation under semiarid climate: Agronomic and economic implications" (69).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geostatistical Assessment of Groundwater Nitrate Contamination with Reflection on DRASTIC Vulnerability Assessment: The Case of the Upper Litani Basin, Lebanon Hamed Assaf, Mark G. Saadeh · Water Resources Management 10 Jul 2008 129
2 Assessing water quality management options in the Upper Litani Basin, Lebanon, using an integrated GIS-based decision support system Hamed Assaf, Mark G. Saadeh · Environmental Modelling & Software 6 May 2008 101
3 Response of potato to full and deficit irrigation under semiarid climate: Agronomic and economic implications Fadi Sami Karam, Nabil Amacha, Salim Fahed et al. · Agricultural Water Management 2 Jun 2014 69
4 Enhancing the performance of regional land cover mapping Weicheng Wu, Claudio Zucca, Fadi Sami Karam et al. · International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation Open access 26 Jul 2016 35
5 Investigating the Temporal Variability of the Standardized Precipitation Index in Lebanon Peter Mahfouz, George H. Mitri, Mireille Jazi et al. · Climate Open access 13 May 2016 34
All 24 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Litani River Authority publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Power System Reliability and Maintenance, Electrical Fault Detection and Protection, Power Systems Fault Detection and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Power System Reliability…0Power System Reliability and Maintenance: 0 fractional worksElectrical Fault Detecti…0Electrical Fault Detection and Protection: 0 fractional worksPower Systems Fault Dete…0Power Systems Fault Detection: 0 fractional worksAquatic Invertebrate Eco…0Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology: 0 fractional worksColeoptera Taxonomy and …0Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…0Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksFreshwater macroinverteb…0Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Sediment T…0Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes: 0 fractional works
Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityElectrical and Electronic EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringEcology4 others

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

  1. 1 Power System Reliability and Maintenance Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  2. 2 Electrical Fault Detection and Protection Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Power Systems Fault Detection Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior Ecology 0 works
  5. 5 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  6. 6 Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  7. 7 Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  8. 8 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  9. 9 Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes Ecology 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 available28.1%not open71.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors51.8%domestic only48.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Litani River Authority's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 146% 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 Litani River Authority as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000023% in 2022.

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Fractional works of Litani River Authority over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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