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SKF (United Kingdom)

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Research works
15
▲ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
130
8.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
14%
world 40%
International
2%
world 18%
SKF (United Kingdom)

Not ranked overall: SKF (United Kingdom) 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 SKF (United Kingdom) work in?

In all years, 62% of research at SKF (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (47%), Medicine (14%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 62.0% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 47.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 16.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 9.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 19.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 8.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 18.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 14.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAnatomy: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKSKF (UnitedKingdom)15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences62%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences19%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering747.3%
    2. Computer Science17.9%
    3. Environmental Science14.5%
    4. Mathematics02.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting18.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.4%
    3. Psychology03.4%
    4. Decision Sciences02.2%
    5. Social Sciences02.2%
    1. Medicine214.0%
    2. Health Professions14.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
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.

What are the most cited papers from SKF (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from SKF (United Kingdom) is "The Shock-pulse method for the detection of damaged rolling bearings" (Dean Butler, 1973), with 65 citations. Next come "The necessity of modern quality improvement and some experience with its implementation in the manufacture of rolling bearings" (29) and "Vibration diagnostics of rolling bearings by novel nonlinear non-stationary wavelet bicoherence technology" (21).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Shock-pulse method for the detection of damaged rolling bearings Dean Butler · Non-Destructive Testing Apr 1973 65
2 The necessity of modern quality improvement and some experience with its implementation in the manufacture of rolling bearings C. Hellstrand · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 24 Apr 1989 29
3 Vibration diagnostics of rolling bearings by novel nonlinear non-stationary wavelet bicoherence technology Leonid M. Gelman, Brian Murray, Tejas Patel et al. · Engineering Structures 19 Oct 2014 21
4 Novel Technology Based on the Spectral Kurtosis and Wavelet Transform for Rolling Bearing Diagnosis Len Gelman, Tejas Patel, Gabrijel Peršin et al. · International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management Open access Nov 2020 16
5 Rolling Bearing Diagnosis Based on the Higher Order Spectra Len Gelman, Tejas Patel, Brian Murray et al. · International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management Open access 10 Nov 2020 8
All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does SKF (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments, Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research, Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments and Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy.

Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments: 0 fractional worksUrinary Bladder and Prostate Research: 0 fractional worksBladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments: 0 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics…0Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 0 fractional worksEuropean Monetary and Fi…0European Monetary and Fiscal Policies: 0 fractional worksEconomic and Business Studies: 0 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineUrologySurgeryEconomics and Econometrics1 others

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

  1. 1 Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  2. 2 Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research Urology 0 works
  3. 3 Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments Surgery 0 works
  4. 4 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  5. 5 European Monetary and Fiscal Policies Finance 0 works
  6. 6 Economic and Business Studies Economics and Econometrics 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 available13.5%not open86.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.0%domestic only98.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has SKF (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is SKF (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000020% in 2020.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%SKF (United Kingdom)0.000026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of SKF (United Kingdom) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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