Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Company · Seongnam-si · South Korea

NCSOFT (South Korea)

global.ncsoft.comROR OpenAlex
Research works
69
▲ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.1k
15.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
NCSOFT (South Korea)

Not ranked overall: NCSOFT (South Korea) 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 NCSOFT (South Korea) work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at NCSOFT (South Korea) is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (68%), Engineering (11%), Medicine (9%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 80.7% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 67.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 21.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 7 fractional works · 21.7% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 10.5% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 11.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 10.0% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 8.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLeadership and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKNCSOFT (SouthKorea)31fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences6%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science2167.8%
    2. Engineering311.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy00.7%
    4. Materials Science00.4%
    5. Energy00.2%
    6. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    7. Environmental Science00.2%
    8. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Medicine38.8%
    2. Health Professions00.7%
    3. Nursing00.5%
    1. Social Sciences12.5%
    2. Decision Sciences01.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    5. Psychology00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does NCSOFT (South Korea) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Science takes 8.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer ScienceField · 21.1 works8.7×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemical Engineering: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 8.71× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.74× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.46× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 1.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.48× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.67× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

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

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science8.71×21 works
  2. Decision Sciences1.48×0 works
  3. Nursing1.09×0 works
  4. Engineering0.74×3 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.67×0 works
  6. Chemical Engineering0.51×0 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.48×1 works
  8. Medicine0.46×3 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.32×0 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.27×0 works
  11. Health Professions0.27×0 works
  12. Energy0.23×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.20×1 works
  14. Psychology0.18×0 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.17×0 works
  16. Mathematics0.15×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.11×0 works
  18. Environmental Science0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at NCSOFT (South Korea)?

Ranked on the quality score, Hanbin Bae and Young-Sun Joo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is NCSOFT (South Korea).

  1. 1 Hanbin Bae South Korea · #2,852,475 worldwide 116 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Young-Sun Joo South Korea · #3,448,877 worldwide 117 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at NCSOFT (South Korea)

What are the most cited papers from NCSOFT (South Korea)?

The most cited paper from NCSOFT (South Korea) is "MeLU" (Hoyeop Lee, Jinbae Im, Seongwon Jang et al., 2019), with 363 citations. Next come "Estimating PM2.5 concentration of the conterminous United States via interpretable convolutional neural networks" (145) and "TrafficBERT: Pre-trained model with large-scale data for long-range traffic flow forecasting" (93).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MeLU Hoyeop Lee, Jinbae Im, Seongwon Jang et al. Conference paper 25 Jul 2019 363
2 Estimating PM2.5 concentration of the conterminous United States via interpretable convolutional neural networks Yongbee Park, Byungjoon Kwon, Juyeon Heo et al. · Environmental Pollution 23 Oct 2019 145
3 TrafficBERT: Pre-trained model with large-scale data for long-range traffic flow forecasting Kyohoon Jin, JeongA Wi, Eunju Lee et al. · Expert Systems with Applications 22 Aug 2021 93
4 A novel equivalent circuit and modeling method for defected ground structure and its application to optimization of a DGS lowpass filter Jun‐Seok Park, Jae‐Ho Kim, Jong-Hun Lee et al. Conference paper 25 Jun 2003 77
5 Traffic characteristics of a massively multi-player online role playing game Jaecheol Kim, Jaeyoung Choi, Dukhyun Chang et al. Conference paper 10 Oct 2005 75
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at NCSOFT (South Korea)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Unsupervised Learning, Convolutional Networks, Pose Estimation, Information Retrieval and Representation Learning.

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

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning12▲ 11×29 topics
  2. Neural Networks6▲ 12×13 topics
  3. Convolutional Neural Networks4▲ 17×7 topics
  4. Machine Learning3▲ 2.5×14 topics
  5. Unsupervised Learning2▲ 48×3 topics
  6. Convolutional Networks2▲ 47×3 topics
  7. Information Retrieval2▲ 23×3 topics
  8. Pose Estimation2▲ 45×2 topics
  9. Representation Learning2▲ 30×2 topics
  10. Deep Neural Networks1▲ 36×3 topics
  11. Feature Extraction1▲ 9.5×3 topics
  12. Text Classification1▲ 25×2 topics
  13. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition1▲ 73×1 topic
  14. Generative Adversarial Networks1▲ 44×2 topics
  15. Speech Enhancement1▲ 73×1 topic
  16. Acoustic Modeling1▲ 95×1 topic
  17. Computer Graphics1▲ 137×1 topic
  18. Face Recognition1▲ 32×2 topics
  19. IoT Security1▲ 11×2 topics
  20. Machine Translation1▲ 21×1 topic
  21. Speaker Verification1▲ 95×1 topic
  22. Visualization1▲ 63×1 topic
  23. Word Representation1▲ 29×1 topic

Which research topics does NCSOFT (South Korea) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Speech and Audio Processing, Topic Modeling, Speech Recognition and Synthesis and Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques.

Speech and Audio Process…1Speech and Audio Processing: 1 fractional worksTopic Modeling1Topic Modeling: 1 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 1 fractional worksComputer Graphics and Vi…1Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques: 1 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Re…1Human Pose and Action Recognition: 1 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Vision and Imaging: 1 fractional worksFace recognition and ana…1Face recognition and analysis: 1 fractional worksHuman Motion and Animation: 1 fractional works3D Shape Modeling and Analysis: 1 fractional works
Signal ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition2 others

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

  1. 1 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 1 works
  2. 2 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  3. 3 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  4. 4 Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 1 works
  5. 5 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  6. 6 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  7. 7 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  8. 8 Face recognition and analysis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  9. 9 Human Motion and Animation Control and Systems Engineering 1 works
  10. 10 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis Computational Mechanics 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 available39.8%not open60.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.0%domestic only88.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has NCSOFT (South Korea)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting20052010201520202025
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is NCSOFT (South Korea) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%NCSOFT (South Korea)0.000067% in 202520102020

Fractional works of NCSOFT (South Korea) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

Other research institutions in Seongnam-si

All research institutions in Seongnam-si

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about NCSOFT (South Korea). Posts are plain text and can be reported.