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United States Department of the Air Force

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Research works
78
▼ 74% vs 2013–17
Citations
317
4.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
40%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: United States Department of the Air Force 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.48× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.95× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.82× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringMathematics: 2.57× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.57× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.05× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 3.67× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.25× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.61× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.41× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.67× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at United States Department of the Air Force?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Quantum Gravity, Entanglement, International Relations, Quantum Information, Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Lorentz Violation and Noncommutative Field Theory.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology4▲ 1.36×23 topics
  2. Quantum Gravity3▲ 35×2 topics
  3. Entanglement3▲ 23×2 topics
  4. Risk Assessment3▲ 5.5×6 topics
  5. International Relations2▲ 15×5 topics
  6. Quantum Information2▲ 24×2 topics
  7. Bell Inequality2▲ 64×1 topic
  8. Decoherence2▲ 64×1 topic
  9. Lorentz Violation2▲ 126×1 topic
  10. Noncommutative Field Theory2▲ 126×1 topic
  11. Colonialism2▲ 5.4×4 topics
  12. Identity2▲ 3.5×4 topics
  13. Risk Factors2▲ 2.3×9 topics
  14. Gender2▲ 4.0×3 topics
  15. Religion2▲ 3.9×3 topics
  16. Gender Roles2▲ 18×2 topics
  17. Combustion Instabilities1▲ 23×2 topics
  18. Casimir Effect1▲ 136×1 topic
  19. Hybrid Rocket Propulsion1▲ 60×1 topic
  20. Quantum Vacuum1▲ 136×1 topic
  21. Recycling1▲ 6.8×2 topics
  22. Regression Rate Behavior1▲ 60×1 topic
  23. Sensor Fusion1▲ 20×2 topics
  24. Hyperglycemia1▲ 15×3 topics
  25. Orbit Determination1▲ 34×2 topics
  26. System Maturity1▲ 66×1 topic
  27. Technology Readiness Levels1▲ 66×1 topic
  28. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles1▲ 14×1 topic
  29. Wind Estimation1▲ 85×1 topic
  30. Analysis1▲ 12×1 topic
  31. Carbon Fiber1▲ 51×1 topic
  32. Divorce1▲ 62×1 topic
  33. Fascism1▲ 55×1 topic
  34. Fertility1▲ 15×1 topic
  35. Intelligence1▲ 24×1 topic
  36. Nonlinear Estimation1▲ 40×1 topic
  37. Particle Filters1▲ 40×1 topic
  38. Relativity1▲ 26×1 topic
  39. Solar System Abundances1▲ 15×1 topic
  40. Technology Development1▲ 36×2 topics

Which research topics does United States Department of the Air Force publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Technology Assessment and Management, Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment, Educational Innovations and Challenges and Regional Economic Development and Innovation.

Technology Assessment an…0Technology Assessment and Management: 0 fractional worksReligion, Gender, and En…0Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment: 0 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Challenges: 0 fractional worksRegional Economic Development and Innovation: 0 fractional worksAlgorithms and Data Compression: 0 fractional worksAir Traffic Management and Optimization: 0 fractional worksHistorical Art and Culture Studies: 0 fractional worksMusic and Audio Processing0Music and Audio Processing: 0 fractional worksAerospace and Aviation Technology: 0 fractional worksGestational Diabetes Research and Management: 0 fractional works
Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityReligious studiesInformation SystemsStrategy and Management5 others

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

  1. 1 Technology Assessment and Management Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  2. 2 Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment Religious studies 0 works
  3. 3 Educational Innovations and Challenges Information Systems 0 works
  4. 4 Regional Economic Development and Innovation Strategy and Management 0 works
  5. 5 Algorithms and Data Compression Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  6. 6 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Historical Art and Culture Studies Museology 0 works
  8. 8 Music and Audio Processing Signal Processing 0 works
  9. 9 Aerospace and Aviation Technology Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Gestational Diabetes Research and Management Obstetrics and Gynecology 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 available39.6%not open60.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.3%domestic only97.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has United States Department of the Air Force's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 74% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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