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Norfolk Southern (United States)

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Research works
63
▼ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
1k
16.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
10%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Norfolk Southern (United States) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 1.82× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEngineering: 4.09× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceDentistry: 2.65× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksMedicineVeterinary: 9.41× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Social Sciences: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Norfolk Southern (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: High-Speed Trains, Dynamic Interaction, Railway Timetabling, Train Scheduling, Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Service Quality and Public Transport.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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. High-Speed Trains5▲ 131×3 topics
  2. Dynamic Interaction4▲ 110×2 topics
  3. Railway Timetabling4▲ 552×1 topic
  4. Train Scheduling4▲ 552×1 topic
  5. Ground Vibration4▲ 292×1 topic
  6. Railway Dynamics4▲ 292×1 topic
  7. Climate Change4▲ 2.3×8 topics
  8. Service Quality4▲ 33×3 topics
  9. Sustainability4▲ 3.2×6 topics
  10. Public Transport3▲ 86×1 topic
  11. Travel Behavior3▲ 66×1 topic
  12. Risk Management3▲ 12×4 topics
  13. Efficiency2▲ 13×2 topics
  14. Trophic Cascades2▲ 31×2 topics
  15. BIM2▲ 79×1 topic
  16. Construction2▲ 31×1 topic
  17. Heat Transfer2▲ 6.0×2 topics
  18. Population Dynamics2▲ 9.8×4 topics
  19. Competition2▲ 35×1 topic
  20. Electric Vehicles2▲ 18×3 topics
  21. Numerical Simulation2▲ 8.8×2 topics
  22. Railway Deregulation2▲ 303×1 topic
  23. Supply Chain2▲ 17×5 topics
  24. Residual Stress2▲ 60×1 topic
  25. Welding2▲ 45×1 topic
  26. Intelligent Transportation Systems2▲ 29×2 topics
  27. Traffic Flow2▲ 42×2 topics
  28. Invasive Species2▲ 4.1×5 topics
  29. Fisheries Sustainability1▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Defect Detection1▲ 19×3 topics
  31. Ecosystem Management1▲ 26×1 topic
  32. Habitat Selection1▲ 23×2 topics
  33. Logistics1▲ 19×4 topics
  34. Marine Fisheries1▲ 38×1 topic
  35. Environmental Impacts1▲ 8.6×2 topics
  36. European Integration1▲ 30×3 topics
  37. Genetic Algorithms1▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control1▲ 60×1 topic
  39. Health Care Utilization1▲ 13×2 topics
  40. Microscopic Simulation1▲ 60×1 topic

Which research topics does Norfolk Southern (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: BIM and Construction Integration, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques and Traffic control and management.

BIM and Construction Int…1BIM and Construction Integration: 1 fractional worksTransportation Planning and Optimization: 1 fractional worksTraffic Prediction and Management Techniques: 0 fractional worksTraffic control and management: 0 fractional worksWelding Techniques and Residual Stresses: 0 fractional worksMaritime Ports and Logistics: 0 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 0 fractional worksFatigue and fracture mec…0Fatigue and fracture mechanics: 0 fractional worksMechanical Failure Analy…0Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation: 0 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Repr…0Animal Behavior and Reproduction: 0 fractional works
Building and ConstructionTransportationControl and Systems EngineeringMechanical Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 BIM and Construction Integration Building and Construction 1 works
  2. 2 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 1 works
  3. 3 Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques Building and Construction 0 works
  4. 4 Traffic control and management Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  8. 8 Fatigue and fracture mechanics Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  9. 9 Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Animal Behavior and Reproduction Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 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 available10.1%not open89.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.5%domestic only88.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Norfolk Southern (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% lower 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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