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Mid-America Transportation Center

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Research works
10
▲ 138% vs 2018-21
Citations
39
4.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
64%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
Mid-America Transportation Center

Not ranked overall: Mid-America Transportation Center is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Mid-America Transportation Center work in?

In all years, 41% of research at Mid-America Transportation Center is in Social Sciences, 39% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (37%), Physics and Astronomy (21%), Medicine (18%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 41.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 37.0% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 18.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 9.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 39.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 20.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 20.9% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 16.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 17.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 17.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 5.7% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workALL ITS WORKMid-AmericaTransportation…10fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences39%Health Sciences18%Social Sciences41%

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 4 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences437.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities02.6%
    3. Psychology01.8%
    1. Physics and Astronomy220.9%
    2. Engineering216.0%
    3. Environmental Science01.2%
    4. Computer Science00.8%
    1. Medicine217.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.8%
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 Mid-America Transportation Center?

The most cited paper from Mid-America Transportation Center is "Application of Light Detection and Ranging Technology to Highway Safety" (Aemal J. Khattak, Shauna L. Hallmark, Reginald Roy Souleyrette, 2003), with 40 citations. Next come "System Wide Data Quality Control of Inductance Loop Data Using Nonlinear Optimization" (5) and "Effects of Drivers' Age on the Comprehension of a Pedestrian Right-of-Way Warning Sign" (2).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Application of Light Detection and Ranging Technology to Highway Safety Aemal J. Khattak, Shauna L. Hallmark, Reginald Roy Souleyrette · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2003 40
2 System Wide Data Quality Control of Inductance Loop Data Using Nonlinear Optimization Lelitha Vanajakshi, Laurence R. Rilett · Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 17 Apr 2006 5
3 Effects of Drivers' Age on the Comprehension of a Pedestrian Right-of-Way Warning Sign Husham N. Abdulsattar, Patrick T. Mccoy · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1999 2
4 Reduced Bond Graph via machine learning for nonlinear multiphysics dynamic systems Youssef Hammadi, David Ryckelynck, Amin El-Bakkali · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 29 Apr 2020 1
5 Centrality dependence of Levy-stable two-pion correlations in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at PHENIX Tamas Novak · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) Open access 12 Jan 2026 0
All 7 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Mid-America Transportation Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies and Education Pedagogy and Practices.

High-Energy Particle Col…1High-Energy Particle Collisions Research: 1 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics a…1Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 1 fractional worksParticle physics theoret…1Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 1 fractional worksEducation Pedagogy and Practices: 0 fractional worksScience and Education Research: 0 fractional worksEducation and Digital Te…0Education and Digital Technologies: 0 fractional worksKnowledge Societies in the 21st Century: 0 fractional worksScientific Research and Technology: 0 fractional worksEducation during COVID-19 pandemic: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 0 fractional works
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsEducationSociology and Political ScienceDemography2 others

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

  1. 1 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1 works
  2. 2 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1 works
  3. 3 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1 works
  4. 4 Education Pedagogy and Practices Education 0 works
  5. 5 Science and Education Research Education 0 works
  6. 6 Education and Digital Technologies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century Demography 0 works
  8. 8 Scientific Research and Technology Computer Science Applications 0 works
  9. 9 Education during COVID-19 pandemic Education 0 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 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 available64.4%not open35.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.8%domestic only76.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mid-America Transportation Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 138% 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 Mid-America Transportation Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000029% in 2019.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Mid-America Transportation Center0.000027% in 2024200020102020

Fractional works of Mid-America Transportation Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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