Optimal Synthesis (United States)
- World rank, all time
- #30,283 of 42,892
- Rank in United States
- #6,493 of 8,685
- Research works
- 145 ▼ 46% vs 2013–17
- Citations
- 2.3k 15.8 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 42.4% record average 16.5%
- Open access
- 6% world 28%
What does Optimal Synthesis (United States) specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Aerospace Engineering takes 36.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 58.4 works37×
- Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 20.9 works12×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 11.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
Who are the top researchers at Optimal Synthesis (United States)?
Ranked on the composite score, P. K. Menon and Parikshit Dutta lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Optimal Synthesis (United States).
- 1 P. K. Menon United States · #175,456 worldwide 224 citations · 43 works
- 2 Parikshit Dutta United States · #1,353,013 worldwide 19 citations · 15 works
Which keywords describe research at Optimal Synthesis (United States)?
By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Collision Avoidance, Risk Assessment, Air Traffic Management, Conflict Resolution, Autonomous Vehicles, Parameter Estimation, Flight Control and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
- Driver Assistance Systems
- Robust Control
- Nonlinear Estimation
- Disturbance Observer
- Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
- Reinforcement Learning
- Traffic Flow
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Pursuit-Evasion Games
- High-speed Rail
- Feedback Control
- Adaptive Control
- Deep Learning
- Automation
- Human Factors
- Sensor Fusion
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Parameter Estimation
- Conflict Resolution
- Risk Assessment
- Collision Avoidance
- Air Traffic Management
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Flight Control
- Wind Estimation
- Driver Behavior
- Optimal Control
- Trust
- Nonlinear Systems
- Control
- Airport Competition
- Missile Guidance
- State Estimation
- Machine Learning
- Bayesian Inference
- Sliding Mode Control
- Microscopic Simulation
- Finite-Time Stability
- Particle Filters
- Stability Analysis
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
- Collision Avoidance33▲ 193×4 topics
- Risk Assessment27▲ 31×3 topics
- Air Traffic Management26▲ 1090×1 topic
- Conflict Resolution26▲ 607×1 topic
- Autonomous Vehicles17▲ 81×4 topics
- Parameter Estimation14▲ 75×3 topics
- Flight Control13▲ 282×2 topics
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles12▲ 80×1 topic
- Wind Estimation12▲ 505×1 topic
- Sensor Fusion11▲ 84×3 topics
- Driver Behavior10▲ 115×2 topics
- Human Factors10▲ 126×2 topics
- Optimal Control10▲ 93×3 topics
- Automation10▲ 116×1 topic
- Trust10▲ 26×1 topic
- Deep Learning9▲ 3.0×13 topics
- Nonlinear Systems9▲ 27×3 topics
- Adaptive Control8▲ 41×4 topics
- Control8▲ 40×2 topics
- Feedback Control8▲ 25×5 topics
- Airport Competition8▲ 396×1 topic
- High-speed Rail8▲ 396×1 topic
- Missile Guidance7▲ 297×1 topic
- Pursuit-Evasion Games7▲ 297×1 topic
- State Estimation7▲ 66×2 topics
- Intelligent Transportation Systems7▲ 53×3 topics
- Machine Learning7▲ 2.1×10 topics
- Traffic Flow7▲ 74×2 topics
- Bayesian Inference7▲ 36×2 topics
- Reinforcement Learning6▲ 56×2 topics
- Sliding Mode Control6▲ 67×2 topics
- Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control6▲ 156×1 topic
- Microscopic Simulation6▲ 156×1 topic
- Disturbance Observer6▲ 94×1 topic
- Finite-Time Stability6▲ 94×1 topic
- Nonlinear Estimation6▲ 123×1 topic
- Particle Filters6▲ 123×1 topic
- Robust Control4▲ 27×3 topics
- Stability Analysis4▲ 12×4 topics
- Driver Assistance Systems3▲ 85×1 topic
Which research topics does Optimal Synthesis (United States) publish most on?
By volume in 2022–2025: Air Traffic Management and Optimization, Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment, Risk and Safety Analysis and Aerospace and Aviation Technology.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 0 works
- 2 Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 0 works
- 3 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 0 works
- 4 Aerospace and Aviation Technology Aerospace Engineering 0 works
- 5 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 0 works
- 6 Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0 works
- 7 Ethics in Clinical Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
- 8 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 0 works
- 9 Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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.
World: 28% of research is openly available.
World: 19% is written across borders.
How has Optimal Synthesis (United States)'s research output changed?
Output in 2018–2022 was 46% lower than in 2013–2017.
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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