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Metro Bilbao

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Research works
3
▲ 234% vs 2018-21
Citations
4
1.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Metro Bilbao

Not ranked overall: Metro Bilbao 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 Metro Bilbao work in?

In all years, 63% of research at Metro Bilbao is in Social Sciences, 23% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (43%), Engineering (17%), Arts and Humanities (17%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 63.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 43.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 16.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 23.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 16.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.7% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 6.7% of its workALL ITS WORKMetro Bilbao3fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences23%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences63%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences143.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities016.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting03.3%
    1. Engineering016.7%
    2. Environmental Science03.3%
    3. Mathematics03.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences06.7%
    1. Medicine06.7%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1.75× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Engineering: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.12× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 4.72× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsArts and Humanities: 8.66× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.72× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Social Sciences: 3.29× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 8.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities8.66×0 works
  2. Mathematics4.72×0 works
  3. Social Sciences3.29×1 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.75×0 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.72×0 works
  6. Environmental Science1.12×0 works
  7. Engineering0.56×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Metro Bilbao?

The most cited paper from Metro Bilbao is "ETA: From secret army to social movement – the post‐Franco schism of the Basque nationalist movement" (Francisco José Llera Ramo, José M. Mata, Cynthia L. Irvin, 1993), with 62 citations. Next come "Género y Urbanismo: ¿hacia ciudades más sensibles e inclusivas?" (4) and "ATO ecodriving design to minimise energy consumption in Metro de Bilbao" (3).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ETA: From secret army to social movement – the post‐Franco schism of the Basque nationalist movement Francisco José Llera Ramo, José M. Mata, Cynthia L. Irvin · Terrorism and Political Violence Sep 1993 62
2 Género y Urbanismo: ¿hacia ciudades más sensibles e inclusivas? Carmen Innerarity Grau, Beatriz Acha Ugarte, Ana Sancho Martínez · RIPS Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas Open access 28 Dec 2020 4
3 ATO ecodriving design to minimise energy consumption in Metro de Bilbao Asunción P. Cucala, Antonio Fernández-Cardador, María Domínguez et al. · WIT transactions on the built environment Conference paperOpen access 28 Aug 2012 3
4 Methodology for Part Visualization Problem Solving - the Importance of the Process Egoitz Sierra, M. Garmendia · InTech eBooks Book chapterOpen access Mar 2010 2
5 L26/P-749 Comparison of the perinatal morbidity in IVF and natural single pregnancies in women with obesity or overweight I. De la Fuente, J R Matorras, S. Pérez-Fernández et al. · Human Reproduction Jul 2026 0
All 8 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Metro Bilbao publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Medieval European Literature and History, Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies, Youth Education and Societal Dynamics and Rural development and sustainability.

Medieval European Litera…0Medieval European Literature and History: 0 fractional worksMigration, Aging, and To…0Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies: 0 fractional worksYouth Education and Societal Dynamics: 0 fractional worksRural development and su…0Rural development and sustainability: 0 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Poli…0Social Sciences and Policies: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainabi…0Environmental Sustainability in Business: 0 fractional worksElectric Vehicles and Infrastructure: 0 fractional worksDifferential Equations and Numerical Methods: 0 fractional worksNumerical methods for differential equations: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics: 0 fractional works
Language and LinguisticsDemographySociology and Political ScienceGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences5 others

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

  1. 1 Medieval European Literature and History Language and Linguistics 0 works
  2. 2 Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies Demography 0 works
  3. 3 Youth Education and Societal Dynamics Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Rural development and sustainability General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  5. 5 Social Sciences and Policies General Social Sciences 0 works
  6. 6 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 0 works
  7. 7 Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Differential Equations and Numerical Methods Numerical Analysis 0 works
  9. 9 Numerical methods for differential equations Numerical Analysis 0 works
  10. 10 Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics Computational Mechanics 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 available38.9%not open61.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.7%domestic only83.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Metro Bilbao's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 234% higher than in 2018-2021.

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