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Rio Tinto (United States)

Research works
64
▼ 48% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.3k
20.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
23%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Rio Tinto (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: 1.67× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Chemical Engineering: 6.82× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 4.59× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.77× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksMaterials Science1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemical Engineering, 6.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Rio Tinto (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Metal Recovery, Metallurgy, Environmental Impact, Microbial Communities, Oxidation Mechanism, Bioleaching, Sulfide Minerals and Bioaccumulation.

▲ 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. Metal Recovery9▲ 102×3 topics
  2. Metallurgy8▲ 173×2 topics
  3. Environmental Impact7▲ 7.8×11 topics
  4. Microbial Communities4▲ 21×2 topics
  5. Oxidation Mechanism4▲ 90×2 topics
  6. Bioleaching4▲ 226×1 topic
  7. Sulfide Minerals4▲ 226×1 topic
  8. Machine Learning4▲ 2.8×5 topics
  9. Bioaccumulation4▲ 49×3 topics
  10. Nanoparticles4▲ 4.4×6 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress4▲ 3.0×4 topics
  12. Water Quality4▲ 13×3 topics
  13. Circular Economy3▲ 28×3 topics
  14. Databases3▲ 131×1 topic
  15. Environmental Impacts3▲ 24×5 topics
  16. Pesticides3▲ 52×3 topics
  17. Rare Earth Elements3▲ 39×3 topics
  18. Thermochemical3▲ 131×1 topic
  19. Energy Efficiency3▲ 6.3×2 topics
  20. Metal Toxicity3▲ 60×2 topics
  21. Biomarkers3▲ 7.7×1 topic
  22. Environmental Risk Assessment3▲ 46×1 topic
  23. Battery Recycling3▲ 79×1 topic
  24. Lithium-ion Batteries3▲ 18×1 topic
  25. Comminution3▲ 133×1 topic
  26. Mineral Liberation Analysis3▲ 133×1 topic
  27. Remediation3▲ 56×2 topics
  28. Water Treatment3▲ 34×2 topics
  29. Flotation2▲ 112×1 topic
  30. Nanobubbles2▲ 112×1 topic
  31. Recycling2▲ 15×3 topics
  32. Toxicity2▲ 8.5×5 topics
  33. Nanomaterials2▲ 4.3×5 topics
  34. Risk Assessment2▲ 5.8×5 topics
  35. Hybrid Materials2▲ 30×3 topics
  36. Metal Matrix Composites2▲ 38×2 topics
  37. Rock Mechanics2▲ 26×2 topics
  38. Pollution2▲ 19×2 topics
  39. Waste Management2▲ 10×2 topics
  40. Life Cycle Assessment2▲ 14×2 topics

Which research topics does Rio Tinto (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics, Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties, Rock Mechanics and Modeling and Landslides and related hazards.

  1. 1 Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  2. 2 Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Rock Mechanics and Modeling Mechanics of Materials 1 works
  4. 4 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  5. 5 Extraction and Separation Processes Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Mineral Processing and Grinding Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Metal Extraction and Bioleaching Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Iron and Steelmaking Processes Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Fluid Dynamics and Mixing Biomedical 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 available23.2%not open76.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.4%domestic only68.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Rio Tinto (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 48% 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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