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Ministry of Transport

In research, Ministry of Transport stands highest in Engineering (#595 of 6,636 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#2,323 of 12,888 worldwide) and Civil and Structural Engineering (#234 of 896 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Transportation, Civil and Structural Engineering and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality — Transportation is 17.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,909
of 28,054 · #6,963 all time
Rank in China
#906
of 3,058
Research works
3.3k
▲ 175% vs 2013–17
Citations
33k
10.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is Ministry of Transport known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #595 of 6,636 21.5%801 #1118
Physical SciencesDomain #2,323 of 12,888 21.6%1,146 #4285
Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield #234 of 896 17.8%205 #537
Environmental ScienceField #1,206 of 3,551 24.8%128 #1968
TransportationSubfield #51 of 132 29.3%77 #240
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #660 of 1,351 22.8%69 #1273
Automotive EngineeringSubfield #170 of 347 23.0%71 #406
Social SciencesDomain #5,293 of 10,521 25.0%160 #9666
Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield #449 of 793 14.4%74 #1314
Social SciencesField #3,769 of 6,365 27.8%87 #6719

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ministry of Transport 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Engineering#1,118 #595
  2. Physical Sciences#4,285 #2,323
  3. Civil and Structural Engineering#537 #234
  4. Environmental Science#1,968 #1,206
  5. Transportation#240 #51
  6. Mechanical Engineering#1,273 #660
  7. Automotive Engineering#406 #170
  8. Social Sciences#9,666 #5,293
  9. Control and Systems Engineering#1,314 #449
  10. Social Sciences#6,719 #3,769
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Ministry of Transport specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Transportation takes 17.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. TransportationSubfield · 76.5 works17×
  2. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 204.8 works13×
  3. Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 36.9 works11×
  4. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 70.7 works9.8×
  5. Building and ConstructionSubfield · 79.4 works9.5×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.99× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.99× its world share, 103 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.19× its world share, 46 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.95× its world share, 12 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.97× its world share, 801 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.93× its world share, 128 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.80× its world share, 37 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 12 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.56× its world share, 24 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.41× its world share, 18 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.46× its world share, 13 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.37× its world share, 15 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 87 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Ministry of Transport?

Ranked on the composite score, Jincheng Wei, Honghao Zhang and Qian Xiao lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ministry of Transport.

  1. 1 Jincheng Wei China · #704,493 worldwide 8 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Honghao Zhang China · #711,250 worldwide 131 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Qian Xiao China · #991,091 worldwide 35 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Guoliang Dong China · #994,033 worldwide 39 citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Guosheng Zhang China · #1,119,587 worldwide 16 citations · 34 works
  6. 6 Ning Su China · #1,378,299 worldwide 57 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Fujia Liu China · #1,433,195 worldwide 28 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Wei Zhou China · #1,537,753 worldwide 13 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Ministry of Transport

Which keywords describe research at Ministry of Transport?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Flow, Travel Behavior, User Satisfaction, Service Quality, Public Transport and Route Choice.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Learning156▲ 3.4×64 topics
  2. Intelligent Transportation Systems72▲ 36×4 topics
  3. Traffic Flow64▲ 45×2 topics
  4. Neural Networks63▲ 3.1×31 topics
  5. Environmental Impact60▲ 2.6×34 topics
  6. Travel Behavior56▲ 45×2 topics
  7. Convolutional Neural Networks54▲ 5.5×12 topics
  8. Mechanical Properties48▲ 3.7×26 topics
  9. User Satisfaction47▲ 18×2 topics
  10. Service Quality47▲ 13×3 topics
  11. Public Transport46▲ 59×1 topic
  12. Route Choice46▲ 62×1 topic
  13. Recycled Materials46▲ 30×2 topics
  14. Nanomaterials44▲ 3.1×16 topics
  15. Urban Traffic44▲ 27×3 topics
  16. Life Cycle Assessment43▲ 12×8 topics
  17. Image Processing43▲ 7.2×10 topics
  18. Graph Convolutional Networks40▲ 27×2 topics
  19. Rheology40▲ 15×6 topics
  20. Time Series Analysis40▲ 17×4 topics
  21. Probabilistic Forecasting39▲ 15×2 topics
  22. Short-Term Forecasting39▲ 21×2 topics
  23. Defect Detection39▲ 22×3 topics
  24. Risk Assessment38▲ 4.2×12 topics
  25. Spatio-Temporal Data38▲ 44×1 topic
  26. Crack Detection35▲ 37×1 topic
  27. Pavement35▲ 37×1 topic
  28. Collision Avoidance33▲ 14×4 topics
  29. Asphalt33▲ 75×1 topic
  30. Bitumen Modification33▲ 75×1 topic
  31. Fuel Consumption33▲ 33×2 topics
  32. Environmental Impacts32▲ 8.7×7 topics
  33. Logistics31▲ 14×6 topics
  34. High-Speed Trains30▲ 34×3 topics
  35. Numerical Simulation30▲ 7.4×11 topics
  36. Air Quality29▲ 12×6 topics
  37. Turbulent Flow28▲ 18×4 topics
  38. Supply Chain28▲ 9.9×6 topics
  39. Autonomous Vehicles27▲ 9.8×4 topics
  40. Reinforcement Learning27▲ 18×3 topics

Which research topics does Ministry of Transport publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Transportation Planning and Optimization, Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques, Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring and Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation.

Transportation Planning …46Transportation Planning and Optimization: 46 fractional worksTraffic Prediction and M…38Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques: 38 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenan…35Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 35 fractional worksAsphalt Pavement Perform…33Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation: 33 fractional worksTraffic control and management: 26 fractional worksVehicle emissions and performance: 22 fractional worksMaritime Ports and Logis…20Maritime Ports and Logistics: 20 fractional worksUrban Transport and Accessibility: 19 fractional worksAerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research: 18 fractional worksTransportation and Mobility Innovations: 18 fractional works
TransportationBuilding and ConstructionCivil and Structural EngineeringControl and Systems Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 46 works
  2. 2 Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques Building and Construction 38 works
  3. 3 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 35 works
  4. 4 Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation Civil and Structural Engineering 33 works
  5. 5 Traffic control and management Control and Systems Engineering 26 works
  6. 6 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 22 works
  7. 7 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 20 works
  8. 8 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 19 works
  9. 9 Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research Aerospace Engineering 18 works
  10. 10 Transportation and Mobility Innovations Automotive Engineering 18 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 available32.5%not open67.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.8%domestic only86.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Ministry of Transport's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 175% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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