Question 1

What is Total (France) known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Total (France) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,471 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#3,565 of 5,901 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#2,706 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering, Geophysics and Environmental Engineering (Ocean Engineering is 21.6× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Total (France) rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Total (France) ranks #6,023 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#3,065 all time), and #167 of 517 in France.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Total (France)?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Patrick Unternehr, Jean‐Claude Ringenbach and Cécilia Sambusiti lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Total (France).

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Total (France)?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Total (France) is "Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python" (Fabián Pedregosa, Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort et al., 2012), with 64,016 citations. Next come "Multiscale seismic waveform inversion" (1,631) and "A review of recent developments concerning the structure, mechanics and fluid flow properties of fault zones" (1,543).

Question 5

Which research topics does Total (France) publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Total (France)?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Renewable Energy, CO2 Sequestration, Optimization, Hydraulic Fracturing, Uncertainty Quantification, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Kalman Filter and Closed-Loop Control.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Total (France) work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Total (France) is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (38%), Environmental Science (9%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Is Total (France)'s research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021.