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Transport Scotland

transportscotland.gov.ukROR OpenAlex
Research works
22
▲ 116% vs 2013–17
Citations
145
6.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Transport Scotland is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Engineering: 4.03× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.13× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 3.73× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksMedicinePsychology: 1.94× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Transport Scotland?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Infrastructure, Dynamic Interaction, Footbridges, Vibration Serviceability, Environmental Impact, Sustainable Development, Monitoring and Sediment Transport.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 27 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 27 words, with their numbers
  1. Infrastructure2▲ 90×2 topics
  2. Dynamic Interaction2▲ 145×2 topics
  3. Environmental Impact2▲ 7.1×4 topics
  4. Footbridges2▲ 210×1 topic
  5. Vibration Serviceability2▲ 210×1 topic
  6. Sustainable Development2▲ 7.1×3 topics
  7. Monitoring2▲ 59×2 topics
  8. Climate Change2▲ 2.5×4 topics
  9. Life Cycle Assessment2▲ 38×2 topics
  10. Sediment Transport2▲ 41×2 topics
  11. Image Processing1▲ 21×2 topics
  12. Sustainability Assessment1▲ 59×2 topics
  13. Geodetic1▲ 1232×1 topic
  14. Leveling1▲ 1232×1 topic
  15. Asphalt1▲ 219×1 topic
  16. Bitumen Modification1▲ 219×1 topic
  17. Public Health1▲ 3.9×2 topics
  18. Remote Sensing1▲ 5.1×4 topics
  19. Riparian Vegetation1▲ 164×1 topic
  20. Risk Perception1▲ 28×2 topics
  21. River Restoration1▲ 112×1 topic
  22. Spatial Planning1▲ 58×2 topics
  23. Deep Learning1▲ 2.4×1 topic
  24. Hydrological Modeling1▲ 25×2 topics
  25. Pavement1▲ 129×1 topic
  26. Lifestyle Migration1▲ 201×1 topic
  27. Retirement Migration1▲ 201×1 topic

Which research topics does Transport Scotland publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring, Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation, Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control and Noise Effects and Management.

Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 1 fractional worksAsphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation: 1 fractional worksVehicle Noise and Vibrat…1Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control: 1 fractional worksNoise Effects and Manage…1Noise Effects and Management: 1 fractional worksPhysical Activity and Health: 0 fractional worksStructural Health Monitoring Techniques: 0 fractional worksTraffic and Road Safety0Traffic and Road Safety: 0 fractional worksSurface Roughness and Optical Measurements: 0 fractional worksStructural Engineering and Vibration Analysis: 0 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 0 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringAutomotive EngineeringSpeech and HearingPhysiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 1 works
  2. 2 Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation Civil and Structural Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control Automotive Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Noise Effects and Management Speech and Hearing 1 works
  5. 5 Physical Activity and Health Physiology 0 works
  6. 6 Structural Health Monitoring Techniques Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  8. 8 Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements Computational Mechanics 0 works
  9. 9 Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 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 available31.7%not open68.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.3%domestic only80.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Transport Scotland's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 116% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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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