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Statistics Korea

In research, Statistics Korea stands highest in Physical Sciences (#15,678 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,196
of 22,385 · #17,076 all time
Rank in South Korea
#261
of 343
Research works
327
▲ 40% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.4k
13.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
50%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Statistics Korea

What is Statistics Korea known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #15,678 of 17,446 3.9%157

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Statistics Korea sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Statistics Korea work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Statistics Korea is in Physical Sciences, 22% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (18%), Medicine (17%), Mathematics (16%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 50 fractional works · 52.2% of its workComputer Science: 18 fractional works · 18.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 10 fractional works · 10.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 15 fractional works · 16.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 14 fractional works · 14.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 10.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 22.5% of its workMedicine: 17 fractional works · 17.3% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 17.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKStatistics Korea96fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences52%Health Sciences22%Social Sciences17%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science1818.3%
    2. Mathematics1516.0%
    3. Engineering1010.4%
    4. Environmental Science44.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy21.6%
    6. Materials Science11.2%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    8. Chemistry00.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Medicine1717.3%
    2. Health Professions44.6%
    3. Dentistry10.6%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    1. Social Sciences44.6%
    2. Decision Sciences43.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance43.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting32.7%
    5. Psychology21.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology44.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.5%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.5%
    5. Neuroscience00.4%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.87× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.40× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.35× its world share, 18 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.70× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.80× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 13.60× its world share, 15 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.70× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.14× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.75× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.90× its world share, 17 worksMedicineNursing: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.83× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.07× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.78× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 13.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics13.60×15 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.07×4 works
  3. Computer Science2.35×18 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.78×4 works
  5. Health Professions1.75×4 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.40×0 works
  7. Dentistry1.14×0 works
  8. Medicine0.90×17 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×4 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.83×3 works
  11. Environmental Science0.80×4 works
  12. Engineering0.70×10 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.70×2 works
  14. Psychology0.60×2 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.50×0 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.43×2 works
  17. Materials Science0.36×1 works
  18. Social Sciences0.36×4 works
  19. Neuroscience0.27×0 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.24×0 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.20×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.15×0 works
  23. Arts and Humanities0.12×0 works
  24. Nursing0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Statistics Korea?

Ranked on the quality score, Sanghee Park and 麻衣 藤田 lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Statistics Korea.

  1. 1 Sanghee Park South Korea · #1,857,261 worldwide 1.3k citations · 101 works
  2. 2 麻衣 藤田 South Korea · #4,837,666 worldwide 6 citations · 49 works
All ranked researchers at Statistics Korea

What are the most cited papers from Statistics Korea?

The most cited paper from Statistics Korea is "Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data" (Eddy K.A. van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra Prasan Rannan-Eliya et al., 2006), with 705 citations. Next come "Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia" (650) and "A novel adiposity index as an integrated predictor of cardiometabolic disease morbidity and mortality" (583).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data Eddy K.A. van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell, Ravindra Prasan Rannan-Eliya et al. · The Lancet Oct 2006 705
2 Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia Eddy K.A. van Doorslaer et al. · Health Economics Open access 21 Feb 2007 650
3 A novel adiposity index as an integrated predictor of cardiometabolic disease morbidity and mortality Yousung Park, Nam Hoon Kim, Tae Yeon Kwon et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 7 Nov 2018 583
4 Multiple predicting K -fold cross-validation for model selection Yoonsuh Jung · Journal of nonparametric statistics 21 Nov 2017 518
5 Adjuvant Immunotherapy With Autologous Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Joon Hyeok Lee, Jeong‐Hoon Lee, Young‐Suk Lim et al. · Gastroenterology Open access 4 Mar 2015 515
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Which keywords describe research at Statistics Korea?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Bayesian Methods, Model Selection, High-Dimensional Data, Neural Networks, Variable Selection, Survival Analysis, Deep Learning and Lasso.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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. Deep Learning8▲ 2.5×30 topics
  2. Neural Networks7▲ 4.5×16 topics
  3. Machine Learning6▲ 1.86×23 topics
  4. Bayesian Methods6▲ 118×2 topics
  5. Model Selection6▲ 69×3 topics
  6. High-Dimensional Data5▲ 36×3 topics
  7. Survival Analysis5▲ 19×3 topics
  8. Variable Selection5▲ 55×2 topics
  9. Epidemiology5▲ 1.27×35 topics
  10. Lasso5▲ 172×1 topic
  11. Regularization5▲ 172×1 topic
  12. Structural Equation Modeling4▲ 20×5 topics
  13. Feature Selection4▲ 17×4 topics
  14. Outlier Detection3▲ 26×2 topics
  15. Principal Component Analysis3▲ 25×2 topics
  16. Multicollinearity3▲ 160×1 topic
  17. Regression Analysis3▲ 83×1 topic
  18. Sparse Representation3▲ 17×3 topics
  19. Support Vector Machines3▲ 9.8×5 topics
  20. Ensemble Methods3▲ 35×2 topics
  21. Clustering2▲ 27×3 topics
  22. Dimensionality Reduction2▲ 32×2 topics
  23. Bayesian Inference2▲ 23×3 topics
  24. Data Analysis2▲ 8.4×5 topics
  25. Sensitivity Analysis2▲ 22×2 topics
  26. Statistical Methods2▲ 64×2 topics
  27. Bayesian Modeling2▲ 102×1 topic
  28. Multiple Imputation2▲ 102×1 topic
  29. Text Mining2▲ 16×4 topics
  30. Artificial Neural Networks2▲ 4.2×2 topics
  31. Backpropagation Learning2▲ 25×1 topic
  32. Classification2▲ 4.2×5 topics
  33. Self-Organizing Maps2▲ 25×1 topic
  34. Face Recognition2▲ 16×1 topic
  35. Local Binary Patterns2▲ 27×1 topic
  36. Variational Inference2▲ 60×2 topics
  37. Maternal Mortality1▲ 6.5×5 topics
  38. Mixture Models1▲ 77×2 topics
  39. Causal Inference1▲ 39×2 topics
  40. Convex Optimization1▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does Statistics Korea publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Statistical Methods and Inference, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference and Neural Networks and Applications.

Statistical Methods and …5Statistical Methods and Inference: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Statistical Methods and Models: 3 fractional worksStatistical Methods and Bayesian Inference: 2 fractional worksNeural Networks and Applications: 2 fractional worksFace and Expression Recognition: 2 fractional worksBayesian Methods and Mix…1Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Causal Inference Techniques: 1 fractional worksTechnology and Data Analysis: 1 fractional worksSparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques: 1 fractional worksElectronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies: 1 fractional works
Statistics and ProbabilityArtificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionInformation Systems2 others

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

  1. 1 Statistical Methods and Inference Statistics and Probability 5 works
  2. 2 Advanced Statistical Methods and Models Statistics and Probability 3 works
  3. 3 Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference Statistics and Probability 2 works
  4. 4 Neural Networks and Applications Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  5. 5 Face and Expression Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  6. 6 Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  7. 7 Advanced Causal Inference Techniques Statistics and Probability 1 works
  8. 8 Technology and Data Analysis Information Systems 1 works
  9. 9 Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques Computational Mechanics 1 works
  10. 10 Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 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 available49.8%not open50.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.3%domestic only68.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Statistics Korea's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% higher 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 Statistics Korea as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00041% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Statistics Korea0.00045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Statistics Korea over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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