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Sonatest (United Kingdom)

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Research works
8
fractional, all time
Citations
30
4.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Sonatest (United Kingdom)

Not ranked overall: Sonatest (United Kingdom) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Sonatest (United Kingdom) work in?

In all years, 84% of research at Sonatest (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (83%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%), Social Sciences (4%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 84.4% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 83.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 34.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 13.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 6.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 6.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSonatest (UnitedKingdom)8fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences84%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences6%

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 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering683.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences06.6%
    1. Social Sciences04.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities01.1%
    3. Psychology01.1%
    1. Health Professions02.5%
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 Sonatest (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from Sonatest (United Kingdom) is "Reduction of surface transport noise by ground roughness" (Imran Bashir, Toby Hill, Shahram Taherzadeh et al., 2014), with 20 citations. Next come "Improvements in ultrasonic inspection of resistance spot welds" (17) and "Enhanced transient eddy current detection of deep corrosion" (10).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reduction of surface transport noise by ground roughness Imran Bashir, Toby Hill, Shahram Taherzadeh et al. · Applied Acoustics 5 Apr 2014 20
2 Improvements in ultrasonic inspection of resistance spot welds John Dennis Buckley, R Servent · Insight - Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Feb 2009 17
3 Enhanced transient eddy current detection of deep corrosion Robert Allen Smith, D.L. Edgar, J Skramstad et al. · Insight - Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Feb 2004 10
4 An ultrasonic technique for the determination of casting-chill contact during solidification Ramazan Kayıkçı, William David Griffiths, C. Strangeways · Journal of Materials Science Sep 2003 4
5 Phased Array Ultrasonic Inspection of Structural Bolts Using Creo Bolt Scanner Sonatest, Philippe Rioux, Sonatest et al. · e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing Open access 18 Jul 2024 2
All 10 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

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

By volume in 2022-now: Health and Medical Studies, Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy and Sports Science and Education.

Health and Medical Studies0Health and Medical Studies: 0 fractional worksPsychology, Coaching, an…0Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy: 0 fractional worksSports Science and Educa…0Sports Science and Education: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSocial PsychologyHistory and Philosophy of Science

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

  1. 1 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  2. 2 Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy Social Psychology 0 works
  3. 3 Sports Science and Education History and Philosophy of 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 available30.8%not open69.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.5%domestic only72.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

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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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