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NSW Roads and Maritime Services

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Research works
7
▼ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
98
13.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
29%
world 18%
NSW Roads and Maritime Services

Not ranked overall: NSW Roads and Maritime Services is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does NSW Roads and Maritime Services work in?

In all years, 80% of research at NSW Roads and Maritime Services is in Physical Sciences, 12% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (64%), Environmental Science (14%), Medicine (7%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 79.7% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 63.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 33.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 10.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 14.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.2% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKNSW Roads andMaritime Services7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering563.8%
    2. Environmental Science114.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.5%
    1. Medicine17.2%
    2. Health Professions05.0%
    1. Social Sciences04.4%
    2. Decision Sciences01.1%
    3. Psychology00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.0%
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.

    What are the most cited papers from NSW Roads and Maritime Services?

    The most cited paper from NSW Roads and Maritime Services is "A cohort study of 20 822 young drivers: the DRIVE study methods and population" (Rebecca Ivers, Stephanie Blows, Mark Stevenson et al., 2006), with 54 citations. Next come "Fire incident data for Australian road tunnels" (41) and "In-vehicle nitrogen dioxide concentrations in road tunnels" (24).

    Most cited papers
    #PaperReleasedCitations
    1 A cohort study of 20 822 young drivers: the DRIVE study methods and population Rebecca Ivers, Stephanie Blows, Mark Stevenson et al. · Injury Prevention Open access Dec 2006 54
    2 Fire incident data for Australian road tunnels Nigel Casey · Fire Safety Journal 6 Nov 2019 41
    3 In-vehicle nitrogen dioxide concentrations in road tunnels A. Martin, Paul Graeme Boulter, Damon Roddis et al. · Atmospheric Environment 9 Sep 2016 24
    4 SCATS Ramp Metering: Strategies, arterial integration and results J Carlos Aydos, Andrew O’Brien Conference paper Oct 2014 17
    5 Motorcycle fuel tanks and pelvic fractures: A motorcycle fuel tank syndrome Lauren Meredith, Matthew Baldock, Michael Fitzharris et al. · Traffic Injury Prevention Open access 20 Feb 2016 15
    All 18 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

    Which research topics does NSW Roads and Maritime Services publish most on?

    By volume: Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, Geomechanics and Mining Engineering and Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring.

    Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis: 0 fractional worksEvacuation and Crowd Dynamics: 0 fractional worksGeomechanics and Mining …0Geomechanics and Mining Engineering: 0 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenan…0Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 0 fractional worksStructural Engineering a…0Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis: 0 fractional worksGeodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures: 0 fractional worksTraffic and Road Safety: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering…0Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 0 fractional worksFire dynamics and safety research: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical and construction materials studies: 0 fractional works
    Civil and Structural EngineeringOcean EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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

    1. 1 Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
    2. 2 Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics Ocean Engineering 0 works
    3. 3 Geomechanics and Mining Engineering Mechanics of Materials 0 works
    4. 4 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
    5. 5 Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
    6. 6 Geodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
    7. 7 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
    8. 8 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
    9. 9 Fire dynamics and safety research Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
    10. 10 Geotechnical and construction materials studies Civil and Structural Engineering 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 available20.2%not open79.8%

    World: 40% of research is openly available.

    with international co-authors28.8%domestic only71.2%

    World: 18% is written across borders.

    How has NSW Roads and Maritime Services's research output changed?

    Output in 2022-2025 was 100% lower than in 2018-2021.

    2000200520102015
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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 NSW Roads and Maritime Services as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000012% in 2018.

    0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%NSW Roads and Maritime Services0.000044% in 201920002010

    Fractional works of NSW Roads and Maritime Services over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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