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Step Tools (United States)

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Research works
9
fractional, all time
Citations
168
19.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
17%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Step Tools (United States)

Not ranked overall: Step Tools (United States) 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 Step Tools (United States) work in?

In all years, 89% of research at Step Tools (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (77%), Computer Science (7%), Environmental Science (4%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 88.7% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 76.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 36.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 16.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 11.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKStep Tools(United States)9fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences89%Health Sciences5%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 3 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering776.6%
    2. Computer Science17.0%
    3. Environmental Science03.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting02.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.0%
    3. Psychology01.7%
    4. Social Sciences00.5%
    1. Medicine03.2%
    2. Health Professions01.7%
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 Step Tools (United States)?

The most cited paper from Step Tools (United States) is "The irradiance volume" (Gene Greger, Peter Shirley, Philip M. Hubbard et al., 1998), with 191 citations. Next come "A roadmap for STEP-NC-enabled interoperable manufacturing" (60) and "NIIIP-SMART: an investigation of distributed object approaches to support MES development and deployment in a virtual enterprise" (37).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The irradiance volume Gene Greger, Peter Shirley, Philip M. Hubbard et al. · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 1998 191
2 A roadmap for STEP-NC-enabled interoperable manufacturing Martin Hardwick, Yaoyao Fiona Zhao, Fred Proctor et al. · The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Open access 28 Mar 2013 60
3 NIIIP-SMART: an investigation of distributed object approaches to support MES development and deployment in a virtual enterprise John Barry, Manuel Aparicio, Timothy Durniak et al. Conference paper 27 Nov 2002 37
4 Integration of design and manufacturing in a virtual enterprise using enterprise rules, intelligent agents, STEP, and work flow Charles R. Gilman, Manuel Aparicio, John Barry et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 9 Dec 1997 33
5 Lessons learned implementing STEP-NC AP-238 Martin Hardwick, David Loffredo · International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Sep 2006 28
All 17 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Step Tools (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, Manufacturing Process and Optimization and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies.

Additive Manufacturing M…0Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes: 0 fractional worksManufacturing Process an…0Manufacturing Process and Optimization: 0 fractional worksAdditive Manufacturing a…0Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies: 0 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringAutomotive Engineering

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

  1. 1 Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies Automotive 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 available16.8%not open83.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.3%domestic only85.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Step Tools (United States)'s research output changed?

20002005201020152020
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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 Step Tools (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2022.

0.000050%0.00010%Step Tools (United States)0.0000093% in 2023200020102020

Fractional works of Step Tools (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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