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National Space Activities Commission

In research, National Space Activities Commission stands highest in Physical Sciences (#9,367 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,781
of 22,385 · #19,777 all time
Rank in Argentina
#110
of 136
Research works
369
▲ 37% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.6k
9.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
36%
world 18%
National Space Activities Commission

What is National Space Activities Commission known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #9,367 of 10,670 3.7%63 #12775

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Space Activities Commission 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does National Space Activities Commission work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research at National Space Activities Commission is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (25%), Engineering (24%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 66 fractional works · 68.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 24 fractional works · 25.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 23 fractional works · 23.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 16 fractional works · 16.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 8.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 5 fractional works · 4.8% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 14.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 8.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 8.6% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 8.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKNational SpaceActivities…96fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences69%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences14%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science2425.1%
    2. Engineering2323.9%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences88.7%
    4. Computer Science55.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy44.5%
    6. Energy10.6%
    7. Mathematics00.4%
    8. Materials Science00.3%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences88.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance22.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities11.4%
    4. Psychology11.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.9%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Medicine65.9%
    2. Health Professions21.9%
    3. Nursing10.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences55.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology21.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.5%
    4. Neuroscience00.4%
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: 1.21× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.76× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.67× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.54× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.70× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.59× its world share, 23 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.05× its world share, 24 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.04× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.71× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 1.79× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.22× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 5.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.54×8 works
  2. Environmental Science5.05×24 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy2.04×4 works
  4. Nursing1.79×1 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.76×2 works
  6. Engineering1.59×23 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.22×2 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.21×6 works
  9. Health Professions0.71×2 works
  10. Energy0.70×1 works
  11. Computer Science0.67×5 works
  12. Social Sciences0.63×8 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.50×1 works
  14. Psychology0.34×1 works
  15. Mathematics0.33×0 works
  16. Medicine0.31×6 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.27×1 works
  18. Neuroscience0.23×0 works
  19. Decision Sciences0.15×0 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.09×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at National Space Activities Commission?

Ranked on the quality score, Marc Thibeault, Pablo A. Servidia and Roberto Alonso lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Space Activities Commission.

  1. 1 Marc Thibeault Argentina · #1,317,135 worldwide 3.7k citations · 50 works
  2. 2 Pablo A. Servidia Argentina · #1,876,572 worldwide 383 citations · 25 works
  3. 3 Roberto Alonso Argentina · #2,218,707 worldwide 679 citations · 27 works
  4. 4 Mario Lamfri Argentina · #3,389,534 worldwide 447 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Carolina B. Tauro Argentina · #4,185,503 worldwide 271 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Sandra Torrusio Argentina · #4,223,897 worldwide 555 citations · 36 works
  7. 7 Daniel Caruso Argentina · #4,366,919 worldwide 91 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Martin D. España Argentina · #4,391,485 worldwide 330 citations · 32 works
  9. 9 Mario Alberto Lanfri Argentina · #4,445,883 worldwide 332 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Guillermo Toyos Argentina · #4,644,677 worldwide 58 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at National Space Activities Commission

What are the most cited papers from National Space Activities Commission?

The most cited paper from National Space Activities Commission is "Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites" (Andreas Colliander et al., 2017), with 764 citations. Next come "Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product" (669) and "Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product" (500).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites Andreas Colliander et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 28 Jan 2017 764
2 Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product S. Chan et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Open access 25 May 2016 669
3 Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product S. Chan et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 13 Oct 2017 500
4 Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using In Situ Measurements Rolf Helmut Reichle et al. · Journal of Hydrometeorology Open access 28 Jul 2017 357
5 Aquarius: An Instrument to Monitor Sea Surface Salinity From Space David M. Le Vine, Gary S. E. Lagerloef, Fernando R. Colomb et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 28 Jun 2007 340
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at National Space Activities Commission?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Water Quality, Land Use Change, Global Change, Machine Learning, SAR Interferometry and Surface Deformation Monitoring.

▲ 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-now 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. Remote Sensing14▲ 12×20 topics
  2. Climate Change14▲ 5.4×44 topics
  3. Machine Learning7▲ 2.1×12 topics
  4. Sustainability4▲ 1.93×16 topics
  5. Public Health4▲ 3.0×14 topics
  6. Water Quality4▲ 9.9×7 topics
  7. Global Change4▲ 15×4 topics
  8. Land Use Change4▲ 13×4 topics
  9. SAR Interferometry4▲ 159×1 topic
  10. Surface Deformation Monitoring4▲ 159×1 topic
  11. Biomass Estimation3▲ 22×3 topics
  12. Climate3▲ 34×2 topics
  13. Sustainable Development3▲ 2.1×10 topics
  14. Biodiversity Conservation3▲ 7.8×9 topics
  15. Environmental Monitoring3▲ 7.6×3 topics
  16. Orbit Determination3▲ 63×2 topics
  17. Biodiversity3▲ 3.6×8 topics
  18. Hydrological Modeling3▲ 11×5 topics
  19. Satellite Observations3▲ 27×3 topics
  20. Phenology2▲ 38×1 topic
  21. Vegetation Monitoring2▲ 38×1 topic
  22. Global Warming2▲ 6.0×7 topics
  23. Physical Activity2▲ 5.2×4 topics
  24. Urban Heat Island2▲ 26×2 topics
  25. CubeSat2▲ 122×1 topic
  26. Ecosystem Services2▲ 5.8×5 topics
  27. On-Orbit Servicing2▲ 95×1 topic
  28. Space Debris2▲ 95×1 topic
  29. small satellite2▲ 122×1 topic
  30. Hyperspectral Imaging2▲ 7.7×3 topics
  31. Data Assimilation2▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Sea Level Rise2▲ 16×2 topics
  33. Earthquake Damage2▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Geohazards2▲ 40×1 topic
  35. Hydrology2▲ 15×4 topics
  36. Global Burden of Disease2▲ 7.0×2 topics
  37. Particulate Matter2▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Latin America2▲ 8.7×6 topics
  39. Sensor Fusion2▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Community-based Resource Management2▲ 81×1 topic

Which research topics does National Space Activities Commission publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Spacecraft Design and Technology and Space Satellite Systems and Control.

Synthetic Aperture Radar…4Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques: 4 fractional worksRemote Sensing in Agricu…2Remote Sensing in Agriculture: 2 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Te…2Spacecraft Design and Technology: 2 fractional worksSpace Satellite Systems …2Space Satellite Systems and Control: 2 fractional worksRemote Sensing and Land Use: 2 fractional worksInertial Sensor and Navigation: 2 fractional worksPublic Health and Enviro…2Public Health and Environmental Issues: 2 fractional worksCalibration and Measurement Techniques: 2 fractional worksRemote-Sensing Image Classification: 2 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …1Cryospheric studies and observations: 1 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringEcologyAtmospheric ScienceHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis1 others

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

  1. 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques Aerospace Engineering 4 works
  2. 2 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 2 works
  3. 3 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  4. 4 Space Satellite Systems and Control Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Remote Sensing and Land Use Atmospheric Science 2 works
  6. 6 Inertial Sensor and Navigation Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  7. 7 Public Health and Environmental Issues Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2 works
  8. 8 Calibration and Measurement Techniques Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  9. 9 Remote-Sensing Image Classification Media Technology 2 works
  10. 10 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 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 available39.4%not open60.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors36.5%domestic only63.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has National Space Activities Commission's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% 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 National Space Activities Commission as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00047% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%National Space Activities Commission0.00035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of National Space Activities Commission over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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