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Transport Systems Catapult

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Research works
13
▼ 81% vs 2018-21
Citations
168
12.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
21%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Transport Systems Catapult

Not ranked overall: Transport Systems Catapult 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 Transport Systems Catapult work in?

In all years, 71% of research at Transport Systems Catapult is in Physical Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (55%), Social Sciences (21%), Computer Science (7%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 70.8% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 55.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 21.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 8.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% 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 workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 28.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 21.2% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 21.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workALL ITS WORKTransport SystemsCatapult13fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences71%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences28%

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. Engineering755.4%
    2. Computer Science16.9%
    3. Chemical Engineering15.1%
    4. Environmental Science01.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy01.3%
    6. Materials Science00.8%
    1. Social Sciences321.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting15.4%
    3. Decision Sciences01.3%
    1. Medicine01.3%
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 Transport Systems Catapult?

The most cited paper from Transport Systems Catapult is "Demand responsive transport: Generation of activity patterns from mobile phone network data to support the operation of new mobility services" (Patrizia Franco, Ryan Johnston, Ecaterina McCormick, 2019), with 75 citations. Next come "New Approach to Effective and Sustainable Urban Transport" (41) and "Tensile Testing of Hybrid Composite Joints" (25).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Demand responsive transport: Generation of activity patterns from mobile phone network data to support the operation of new mobility services Patrizia Franco, Ryan Johnston, Ecaterina McCormick · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice Open access 4 Oct 2019 75
2 New Approach to Effective and Sustainable Urban Transport Martin Lowson · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2003 41
3 Tensile Testing of Hybrid Composite Joints Giuseppe Lamanna, Raffaele Sepe, Angela Pozzi · Applied Mechanics and Materials Open access Jun 2014 25
4 Ride Sharing in Personal Rapid Transit Capacity Planning John D. Lees-Miller, John Hammersley, Nick Davenport Conference paper 28 May 2009 23
5 Three Financial and Socio-Economic Assessments of a Personal Rapid Transit System P H Bly, P. Teychenne Conference paper 25 Apr 2005 23
All 19 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Transport Systems Catapult publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Business Strategies and Innovation, Collaboration in agile enterprises, Digital Transformation in Industry and Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization.

Business Strategies and Innovation: 0 fractional worksCollaboration in agile enterprises: 0 fractional worksDigital Transformation in Industry: 0 fractional worksComposite Structure Analysis and Optimization: 0 fractional worksVibration Control and Rheological Fluids: 0 fractional worksNonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures: 0 fractional works
Strategy and ManagementManagement of Technology and InnovationIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringMechanics of Materials2 others

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

  1. 1 Business Strategies and Innovation Strategy and Management 0 works
  2. 2 Collaboration in agile enterprises Management of Technology and Innovation 0 works
  3. 3 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  5. 5 Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures Materials Chemistry 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 available21.0%not open79.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.2%domestic only81.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Transport Systems Catapult's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 81% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Transport Systems Catapult as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2020.

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Fractional works of Transport Systems Catapult over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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