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North Carolina Department of Transportation

Research works
67
▲ 122% vs 2013–17
Citations
619
9.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
6%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: North Carolina Department of Transportation 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: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.30× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 5.13× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.15× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.29× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.88× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciencesworld share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 5.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at North Carolina Department of Transportation?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Flow, Driver Behavior, Deep Learning, Risk Factors, Injury Severity, Traffic Accidents and Recycled Materials.

▲ 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. Deep Learning7▲ 4.6×4 topics
  2. Intelligent Transportation Systems6▲ 100×2 topics
  3. Traffic Flow6▲ 143×2 topics
  4. Driver Behavior6▲ 137×2 topics
  5. Risk Factors5▲ 7.4×4 topics
  6. Injury Severity5▲ 99×1 topic
  7. Traffic Accidents5▲ 196×1 topic
  8. Recycled Materials4▲ 101×2 topics
  9. Defect Detection4▲ 62×2 topics
  10. Convolutional Neural Networks4▲ 15×2 topics
  11. Life Cycle Assessment4▲ 35×3 topics
  12. Crack Detection4▲ 155×1 topic
  13. Pavement4▲ 155×1 topic
  14. Asphalt4▲ 246×1 topic
  15. Bitumen Modification4▲ 246×1 topic
  16. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control4▲ 194×1 topic
  17. Environmental Impact4▲ 4.0×10 topics
  18. Microscopic Simulation4▲ 194×1 topic
  19. Risk Management3▲ 12×3 topics
  20. Probabilistic Forecasting3▲ 30×2 topics
  21. Risk Perception3▲ 20×4 topics
  22. Construction2▲ 35×3 topics
  23. Seismic2▲ 71×1 topic
  24. Soil Properties2▲ 24×4 topics
  25. Tunnel2▲ 49×1 topic
  26. User Satisfaction2▲ 25×3 topics
  27. RFID Technology2▲ 31×2 topics
  28. Sustainability Assessment2▲ 34×2 topics
  29. Urban Traffic2▲ 58×2 topics
  30. Short-Term Forecasting2▲ 50×1 topic
  31. Spatio-Temporal Data2▲ 101×1 topic
  32. Health Impact Assessment2▲ 55×2 topics
  33. Travel Behavior2▲ 43×2 topics
  34. Water Quality2▲ 7.3×5 topics
  35. Public Transport2▲ 52×1 topic
  36. Service Quality2▲ 18×1 topic
  37. BIM2▲ 71×1 topic
  38. Finite Element Analysis2▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Traffic Signs2▲ 317×1 topic
  40. Warning Design2▲ 317×1 topic

Which research topics does North Carolina Department of Transportation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Traffic and Road Safety, Traffic control and management, Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring and BIM and Construction Integration.

  1. 1 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 2 works
  2. 2 Traffic control and management Control and Systems Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 BIM and Construction Integration Building and Construction 0 works
  5. 5 Concrete Corrosion and Durability Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Wireless Power Transfer Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Non-Destructive Testing Techniques Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Underground infrastructure and sustainability Building and Construction 0 works
  9. 9 Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 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 available5.8%not open94.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.0%domestic only95.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has North Carolina Department of Transportation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 122% higher 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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