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Netherlands eScience Center

In research, Netherlands eScience Center stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,000 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,545
of 22,385 · #13,844 all time
Rank in Netherlands
#166
of 197
Research works
345
▼ 37% vs 2018-21
Citations
6k
17.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
86%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Netherlands eScience Center

What is Netherlands eScience Center 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
Physical SciencesDomain #7,000 of 17,446 11.1%224

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Netherlands eScience Center 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 Netherlands eScience Center work in?

In 2022-now, 62% of research at Netherlands eScience Center is in Physical Sciences, 25% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (28%), Engineering (11%), Decision Sciences (11%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 77 fractional works · 62.4% of its workComputer Science: 35 fractional works · 28.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 12 fractional works · 9.8% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 7.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 4.2% of its workHardware and Architecture: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 11.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 13 fractional works · 10.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 25.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 10.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 11 fractional works · 9.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 6.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNetherlandseScience Center123fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences62%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences25%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science3528.4%
    2. Engineering1411.1%
    3. Environmental Science1310.4%
    4. Physics and Astronomy53.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences53.8%
    6. Materials Science22.0%
    7. Mathematics21.4%
    8. Chemistry11.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.3%
    10. Energy00.1%
    1. Decision Sciences1310.7%
    2. Social Sciences86.4%
    3. Psychology53.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities21.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting11.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology53.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.2%
    3. Neuroscience11.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine75.3%
    2. Health Professions00.4%
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: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.74× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.70× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.65× its world share, 35 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.45× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.74× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.10× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.57× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.18× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.74× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 6 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 11.05× its world share, 13 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.21× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.50× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 11.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences11.05×13 works
  2. Computer Science3.65×35 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.45×5 works
  4. Environmental Science2.10×13 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.74×5 works
  6. Psychology1.21×4 works
  7. Mathematics1.18×2 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.78×0 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.74×5 works
  10. Engineering0.74×14 works
  11. Chemistry0.73×1 works
  12. Neuroscience0.70×1 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.64×2 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×2 works
  15. Materials Science0.57×2 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.54×1 works
  17. Social Sciences0.50×8 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.38×2 works
  19. Medicine0.28×6 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.24×1 works
  21. Health Professions0.14×0 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.10×0 works
  23. Energy0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Netherlands eScience Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Vincent T. van Hees, F. Diblen and Lars Ridder lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Netherlands eScience Center.

  1. 1 Vincent T. van Hees Netherlands · #31,568 worldwide 14k citations · 109 works
  2. 2 F. Diblen Netherlands · #61,444 worldwide 18k citations · 280 works
  3. 3 Lars Ridder Netherlands · #294,140 worldwide 3.4k citations · 74 works
  4. 4 Nicolas Renaud Netherlands · #342,429 worldwide 3.4k citations · 103 works
  5. 5 Meiert W. Grootes Netherlands · #376,500 worldwide 4.7k citations · 101 works
  6. 6 Francesco Nattino Netherlands · #392,573 worldwide 1.6k citations · 77 works
  7. 7 Stefan Verhoeven Netherlands · #431,287 worldwide 1.6k citations · 171 works
  8. 8 O. Martinez-Rubi Netherlands · #576,848 worldwide 10k citations · 25 works
  9. 9 Niels Drost Netherlands · #659,925 worldwide 2.2k citations · 155 works
  10. 10 Hanno Spreeuw Netherlands · #736,613 worldwide 3.8k citations · 59 works
All ranked researchers at Netherlands eScience Center

What are the most cited papers from Netherlands eScience Center?

The most cited paper from Netherlands eScience Center is "LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray" (M. P. van Haarlem et al., 2013), with 2,718 citations. Next come "High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP v1.0) for CMIP6" (1,218) and "GGIR: A Research Community–Driven Open Source R Package for Generating Physical Activity and Sleep Outcomes From Multi-Day Raw Accelerometer Data" (1,005).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray M. P. van Haarlem et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access201 authors 15 May 2013 2,718
2 High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP v1.0) for CMIP6 Rein Haarsma et al. · Geoscientific model development Open access 22 Nov 2016 1,218
3 GGIR: A Research Community–Driven Open Source R Package for Generating Physical Activity and Sleep Outcomes From Multi-Day Raw Accelerometer Data Jairo Hidalgo Migueles, Alex V. Rowlands, Florian G. Huber et al. · Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour Open access Sep 2019 1,005
4 A Novel, Open Access Method to Assess Sleep Duration Using a Wrist-Worn Accelerometer Vincent T. van Hees, Sèverine Sabia, Kirstie N. Anderson et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 16 Nov 2015 785
5 Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms Samuel E. Jones et al. · Nature Communications Open access 29 Jan 2019 752
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Netherlands eScience Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Workflow Management, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Reproducibility, Scientific Workflows, Big Data, Climate Change and Parallel Computing.

▲ 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. Machine Learning14▲ 3.6×30 topics
  2. Workflow Management11▲ 127×2 topics
  3. Bioinformatics11▲ 74×2 topics
  4. Reproducibility10▲ 199×1 topic
  5. Scientific Workflows10▲ 199×1 topic
  6. Climate Change9▲ 2.7×24 topics
  7. Big Data7▲ 6.0×11 topics
  8. Remote Sensing6▲ 4.2×21 topics
  9. Parallel Computing5▲ 35×3 topics
  10. Deep Learning5▲ 1.19×23 topics
  11. Digital Repositories4▲ 101×2 topics
  12. High-Performance Computing4▲ 42×2 topics
  13. Data Mining4▲ 4.3×5 topics
  14. Data Sharing4▲ 88×1 topic
  15. Scientific Data Management4▲ 107×1 topic
  16. Distributed Systems3▲ 15×5 topics
  17. Hydrological Modeling3▲ 11×5 topics
  18. Statistical Modeling3▲ 59×2 topics
  19. Global Warming3▲ 5.8×6 topics
  20. Molecular Dynamics3▲ 13×3 topics
  21. GPU Computing3▲ 55×1 topic
  22. Performance Optimization3▲ 34×1 topic
  23. Data Assimilation2▲ 12×3 topics
  24. Resource Management2▲ 12×2 topics
  25. Boundary Layer2▲ 16×2 topics
  26. Semantic Web2▲ 20×4 topics
  27. Open Access2▲ 17×3 topics
  28. Visualization2▲ 30×2 topics
  29. Clinical Decision Support2▲ 10×2 topics
  30. Requirements Engineering2▲ 36×2 topics
  31. Ensemble Kalman Filter2▲ 15×2 topics
  32. High-Throughput2▲ 26×1 topic
  33. Materials Informatics2▲ 26×1 topic
  34. Probabilistic Forecasting2▲ 7.9×2 topics
  35. Convective Parameterization2▲ 26×1 topic
  36. Data Visualization2▲ 27×3 topics
  37. Mesoscale Modeling2▲ 26×1 topic
  38. Python2▲ 68×1 topic
  39. Scientific Computing2▲ 68×1 topic
  40. Peer Review2▲ 39×2 topics

Which research topics does Netherlands eScience Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Scientific Computing and Data Management, Research Data Management Practices, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques and Machine Learning in Materials Science.

Scientific Computing and…10Scientific Computing and Data Management: 10 fractional worksResearch Data Management…4Research Data Management Practices: 4 fractional worksParallel Computing and O…3Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques: 3 fractional worksMachine Learning in Materials Science: 2 fractional worksComputational Physics and Python Applications: 2 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 2 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 2 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 2 fractional worksData Analysis with R: 1 fractional worksAcademic Publishing and Open Access: 1 fractional works
Information Systems and ManagementInformation SystemsHardware and ArchitectureMaterials Chemistry4 others

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

  1. 1 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 10 works
  2. 2 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 4 works
  3. 3 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 3 works
  4. 4 Machine Learning in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 2 works
  5. 5 Computational Physics and Python Applications Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  6. 6 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 2 works
  7. 7 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 2 works
  8. 8 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  9. 9 Data Analysis with R Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  10. 10 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 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 available86.2%not open13.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.8%domestic only70.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Netherlands eScience Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting20052010201520202025
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Netherlands eScience Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00029% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Netherlands eScience Center0.00045% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Netherlands eScience Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Netherlands eScience Center9.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.5% in 2019.

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