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Sefar (Switzerland)

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Research works
23
▼ 81% vs 2013–17
Citations
396
17.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
30.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
21%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Sefar (Switzerland) 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.

Engineering: 1.20× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.33× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 12.46× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 12.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Sefar (Switzerland)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Circular Economy, Environmental Management, Waste Management, Product Design, Artificial Intelligence, Green Practices, Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Recycling.

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

All 27 words, with their numbers
  1. Circular Economy3▲ 75×2 topics
  2. Environmental Management3▲ 58×2 topics
  3. Waste Management3▲ 50×3 topics
  4. Product Design3▲ 126×2 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence3▲ 14×2 topics
  6. Green Practices3▲ 258×1 topic
  7. Sustainable Supply Chain Management3▲ 258×1 topic
  8. Recycling2▲ 40×2 topics
  9. Environmental Impacts2▲ 39×2 topics
  10. Flexible Electronics2▲ 53×3 topics
  11. Moisture Management2▲ 183×1 topic
  12. Thermal Properties2▲ 49×1 topic
  13. E-Waste2▲ 145×1 topic
  14. Metal Recovery2▲ 51×1 topic
  15. Sustainability2▲ 4.0×5 topics
  16. Sustainable Development2▲ 5.8×3 topics
  17. Bioinspired Materials1▲ 79×2 topics
  18. Bioinspired Design1▲ 150×1 topic
  19. Customer Experience1▲ 67×2 topics
  20. E-commerce1▲ 20×2 topics
  21. Superhydrophobic Surfaces1▲ 150×1 topic
  22. Nanogenerators1▲ 66×1 topic
  23. Wearable1▲ 66×1 topic
  24. Business Models1▲ 57×1 topic
  25. Cardiac Risk1▲ 50×1 topic
  26. Digital Transformation1▲ 16×1 topic
  27. Perioperative1▲ 50×1 topic

Which research topics does Sefar (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution and Sustainable Industrial Ecology.

Sustainable Supply Chain…3Sustainable Supply Chain Management: 3 fractional worksRecycling and Waste Management Techniques: 2 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution: 1 fractional worksSustainable Industrial Ecology: 1 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainabi…1Environmental Sustainability in Business: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials: 0 fractional worksSustainable Development and Environmental Policy: 0 fractional worksService and Product Innovation: 0 fractional worksUrban and Freight Transport Logistics: 0 fractional worksInformation Systems Theories and Implementation: 0 fractional works
Strategy and ManagementIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringPollutionMarketing4 others

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

  1. 1 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy and Management 3 works
  2. 2 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  3. 3 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 1 works
  4. 4 Sustainable Industrial Ecology Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  5. 5 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 1 works
  6. 6 Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  8. 8 Service and Product Innovation Marketing 0 works
  9. 9 Urban and Freight Transport Logistics Building and Construction 0 works
  10. 10 Information Systems Theories and Implementation Sociology and Political Science 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 available20.7%not open79.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.4%domestic only70.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Sefar (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 81% 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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