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PCA Engineers

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Research works
53
▼ 79% vs 2018-21
Citations
452
8.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
5%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
PCA Engineers

Not ranked overall: PCA Engineers 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 PCA Engineers work in?

In all years, 98% of research at PCA Engineers is in Physical Sciences, 2% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (91%), Environmental Science (2%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (2%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 52 fractional works · 97.6% of its workEngineering: 48 fractional works · 90.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 37.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 17 fractional works · 31.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 6 fractional works · 12.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKPCA Engineers53fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences98%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences2%

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 3 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering4890.7%
    2. Environmental Science12.2%
    3. Chemical Engineering11.5%
    4. Materials Science00.9%
    5. Mathematics00.9%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.6%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.6%
    8. Computer Science00.2%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.9%
    2. Decision Sciences00.2%
    3. Social Sciences00.2%
    1. Medicine00.2%
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.

Who are the top researchers at PCA Engineers?

Ranked on the quality score, Chris Robinson and Hamid R. Hazby lead among researchers whose main affiliation is PCA Engineers.

  1. 1 Chris Robinson United Kingdom · #1,696,314 worldwide 521 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Hamid R. Hazby United Kingdom · #4,485,827 worldwide 115 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at PCA Engineers

What are the most cited papers from PCA Engineers?

The most cited paper from PCA Engineers is "A Method to Estimate the Performance Map of a Centrifugal Compressor Stage" (Michael Casey, Chris Robinson, 2012), with 101 citations. Next come "Centrifugal compressor design" (74) and "A New Streamline Curvature Throughflow Method for Radial Turbomachinery" (59).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Method to Estimate the Performance Map of a Centrifugal Compressor Stage Michael Casey, Chris Robinson · Journal of Turbomachinery 8 Nov 2012 101
2 Centrifugal compressor design P. M. Came, Chris Robinson · Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science Feb 1998 74
3 A New Streamline Curvature Throughflow Method for Radial Turbomachinery Michael Casey, Chris Robinson · Journal of Turbomachinery 7 Apr 2010 59
4 The Design Space Boundaries for High Flow Capacity Centrifugal Compressors Daniel Rusch, Michael Casey · Journal of Turbomachinery 25 Mar 2013 51
5 A unified correction method for Reynolds number, size, and roughness effects on the performance of compressors M. V. Casey, Chris Robinson · Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and Energy 5 Aug 2011 43
All 73 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at PCA Engineers?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heat Transfer, Large-Eddy Simulation, Boundary Layer, Film Cooling, Turbine, Thermodynamic Analysis, Ejectors and Refrigerants.

▲ 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 32 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 32 words, with their numbers
  1. Heat Transfer21▲ 78×5 topics
  2. Large-Eddy Simulation19▲ 149×5 topics
  3. Boundary Layer14▲ 198×2 topics
  4. Film Cooling14▲ 1508×1 topic
  5. Turbine14▲ 1508×1 topic
  6. Thermodynamic Analysis11▲ 359×3 topics
  7. Ejectors10▲ 711×1 topic
  8. Refrigerants10▲ 711×1 topic
  9. Laser Surface Texturing6▲ 318×1 topic
  10. Tribological Performance6▲ 177×1 topic
  11. Chemical Kinetics4▲ 66×2 topics
  12. Combustion Instabilities3▲ 78×1 topic
  13. Turbulent Flames3▲ 123×1 topic
  14. Friction Factor2▲ 107×1 topic
  15. Solar Air Heater2▲ 107×1 topic
  16. Aerodynamics2▲ 63×1 topic
  17. High-Speed Trains2▲ 61×1 topic
  18. Vortex Dynamics2▲ 22×2 topics
  19. Multiphase Flow2▲ 33×2 topics
  20. CFD Simulation2▲ 24×4 topics
  21. Emissions2▲ 15×2 topics
  22. Turbulent Flows1▲ 21×2 topics
  23. Boundary Layer Transition1▲ 25×1 topic
  24. Particle Image Velocimetry1▲ 25×1 topic
  25. Performance Optimization1▲ 22×2 topics
  26. Pressure Drop1▲ 30×2 topics
  27. Cyclone Separator1▲ 107×1 topic
  28. Particle Flow1▲ 107×1 topic
  29. Contracts1▲ 70×1 topic
  30. Enforcement1▲ 50×1 topic
  31. High-Order Schemes1▲ 22×1 topic
  32. Turbulence Modeling1▲ 35×1 topic

Which research topics does PCA Engineers publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies, HVDC Systems and Fault Protection and Power Systems Fault Detection.

Turbomachinery Performan…1Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization: 1 fractional worksRefrigeration and Air Co…1Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies: 1 fractional worksHVDC Systems and Fault P…0HVDC Systems and Fault Protection: 0 fractional worksPower Systems Fault Detection: 0 fractional worksHeat Transfer Mechanisms: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Sensor Technologies Research: 0 fractional worksCombustion and flame dynamics: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Aircraft Design and Technologies: 0 fractional worksElectrical Fault Detection and Protection: 0 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 0 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringMechanical EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringControl and Systems Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  2. 2 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 HVDC Systems and Fault Protection Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Power Systems Fault Detection Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Heat Transfer Mechanisms Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Advanced Sensor Technologies Research Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Combustion and flame dynamics Computational Mechanics 0 works
  8. 8 Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Electrical Fault Detection and Protection Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 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 available5.2%not open94.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.3%domestic only67.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has PCA Engineers's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 79% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 PCA Engineers as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000045% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%PCA Engineers0.000034% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of PCA Engineers over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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