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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

In research, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stands highest in Engineering (#5,978 of 11,412 worldwide), Health Sciences (#13,717 of 20,462 worldwide) and Medicine (#12,075 of 17,978 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#23,556
of 42,892
Rank in United States
#5,063
of 8,685
Research works
613
▼ 37% vs 2013–17
Citations
11k
18.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
12%
world 28%

What is National Highway Traffic Safety Administration known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
EngineeringField #5,978 of 11,412 21.6%280
Health SciencesDomain #13,717 of 20,462 24.6%194
MedicineField #12,075 of 17,978 24.5%156
Physical SciencesDomain #15,921 of 21,541 21.1%313

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 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).

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: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.05× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 2.36× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.03× its world share, 7 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 1.92× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.67× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?

Ranked on the composite score, Rolf H. Eppinger, Rajesh Subramanian and Kevin Moorhouse lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

  1. 1 Rolf H. Eppinger United States · #236,910 worldwide 75 citations · 26 works
  2. 2 Rajesh Subramanian United States · #441,636 worldwide 51 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Kevin Moorhouse United States · #694,905 worldwide 33 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 William T. Hollowell United States · #916,165 worldwide 31 citations · 15 works
  5. 5 W. Riley Garrott United States · #1,391,900 worldwide 23 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Which keywords describe research at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Driver Behavior, Injury Severity, Risk Factors, Road Safety, Traffic Accidents, Mechanical Properties, Obesity and Biomechanics.

▲ 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 25 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Driver Behavior6▲ 215×2 topics
  2. Injury Severity5▲ 181×2 topics
  3. Risk Factors5▲ 13×2 topics
  4. Road Safety5▲ 341×1 topic
  5. Traffic Accidents5▲ 302×1 topic
  6. Mechanical Properties4▲ 13×5 topics
  7. Obesity4▲ 14×2 topics
  8. Biomechanics4▲ 35×1 topic
  9. Brain Injury4▲ 378×1 topic
  10. Autonomous Vehicles2▲ 32×4 topics
  11. Epidemiology2▲ 1.69×8 topics
  12. Deep Learning2▲ 1.80×7 topics
  13. Intelligent Transportation Systems2▲ 31×4 topics
  14. Transportation2▲ 24×3 topics
  15. Crash Tests1▲ 452×1 topic
  16. Finite Element Simulation1▲ 120×1 topic
  17. Modeling1▲ 15×2 topics
  18. Collision Avoidance1▲ 18×2 topics
  19. Health Outcomes1▲ 12×2 topics
  20. Human Factors1▲ 44×2 topics
  21. Mental Health1▲ 2.3×5 topics
  22. Automation1▲ 45×1 topic
  23. Global Burden1▲ 5.7×2 topics
  24. Trust1▲ 11×1 topic
  25. Digital Technologies1▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does National Highway Traffic Safety Administration publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Traffic and Road Safety, Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics, Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis and Human-Automation Interaction and Safety.

Traffic and Road Safety5Traffic and Road Safety: 5 fractional worksAutomotive and Human Inj…4Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics: 4 fractional worksTransportation Safety and Impact Analysis: 1 fractional worksHuman-Automation Interaction and Safety: 1 fractional worksOlder Adults Driving Studies: 1 fractional worksInjury Epidemiology and Prevention: 1 fractional worksTransportation Planning and Optimization: 1 fractional worksSimulation and Modeling Applications: 1 fractional worksUrban Transport and Accessibility: 1 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Algorithms: 1 fractional works
Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCivil and Structural EngineeringSocial Psychology5 others

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

  1. 1 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 5 works
  2. 2 Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 1 works
  5. 5 Older Adults Driving Studies Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 1 works
  6. 6 Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  7. 7 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 1 works
  8. 8 Simulation and Modeling Applications Control and Systems Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 1 works
  10. 10 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 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 available12.2%not open87.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.7%domestic only89.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 37% lower than in 2013–2017.

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