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Vicomtech

In research, Vicomtech stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,262 of 10,670 worldwide), Computer Science (#1,972 of 4,417 worldwide) and Engineering (#3,824 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computer Science (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 9.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,310
of 22,385 · #10,662 all time
Rank in Spain
#171
of 426
Research works
584
▲ 77% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.1k
10.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.13×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
44%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Vicomtech

What is Vicomtech known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #3,262 of 10,670 7.6%168 #4814
Computer ScienceField #1,972 of 4,417 5.9%95 #2374
EngineeringField #3,824 of 5,901 9.6%65 #5398

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Vicomtech sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#4,814 #3,262
  2. Computer Science#2,374 #1,972
  3. Engineering#5,398 #3,824
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Vicomtech work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research at Vicomtech is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (43%), Engineering (31%), Medicine (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 191 fractional works · 77.3% of its workComputer Science: 105 fractional works · 42.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 31 fractional works · 12.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 29 fractional works · 11.7% of its workSignal Processing: 13 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 12 fractional works · 5.1% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 76 fractional works · 30.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 19 fractional works · 7.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 fractional works · 4.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 9 fractional works · 3.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 9.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 20 fractional works · 8.3% of its workMedicine: 16 fractional works · 6.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 12 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKVicomtech247fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences77%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences10%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science10542.6%
    2. Engineering7630.6%
    3. Environmental Science52.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.5%
    6. Materials Science10.2%
    7. Energy00.2%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    9. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences93.7%
    2. Decision Sciences51.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting41.6%
    4. Psychology41.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    1. Medicine166.3%
    2. Health Professions41.7%
    3. Dentistry10.2%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology62.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences31.4%
    3. Neuroscience20.9%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Vicomtech specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 9.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 29.0 works9.3×
  2. Computer ScienceField · 105.2 works5.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.43× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.56× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 5.48× its world share, 105 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.65× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.04× its world share, 76 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.40× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.64× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.33× its world share, 16 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.50× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.92× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.52× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 5.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science5.48×105 works
  2. Engineering2.04×76 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.92×5 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.65×2 works
  5. Health Professions0.64×4 works
  6. Neuroscience0.56×2 works
  7. Psychology0.52×4 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.51×0 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.50×4 works
  10. Dentistry0.44×0 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.43×6 works
  12. Environmental Science0.40×5 works
  13. Medicine0.33×16 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.30×4 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.29×2 works
  16. Social Sciences0.29×9 works
  17. Energy0.22×0 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.22×1 works
  19. Nursing0.14×0 works
  20. Chemistry0.09×0 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.07×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.06×0 works
  23. Mathematics0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Vicomtech?

Ranked on the quality score, Jan L. Bruse, Marco Quartulli and María Teresa Linaza lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Vicomtech.

  1. 1 Jan L. Bruse Spain · #890,250 worldwide 982 citations · 54 works
  2. 2 Marco Quartulli Spain · #1,362,677 worldwide 1.3k citations · 69 works
  3. 3 María Teresa Linaza Spain · #1,376,662 worldwide 1.2k citations · 64 works
  4. 4 Mikel Hernandez Spain · #1,536,335 worldwide 425 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Carlos Toro Spain · #1,627,087 worldwide 2.4k citations · 104 works
  6. 6 Juan Luís Ferrando Spain · #1,741,876 worldwide 363 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Igor Garcia Olaizola Spain · #1,832,618 worldwide 1.2k citations · 81 works
  8. 8 Íñigo Barandiarán Spain · #1,862,946 worldwide 1.6k citations · 54 works
  9. 9 Urtzi Otamendi Spain · #1,898,799 worldwide 178 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Andoni Beristain Spain · #1,984,216 worldwide 549 citations · 56 works
All ranked researchers at Vicomtech

What are the most cited papers from Vicomtech?

The most cited paper from Vicomtech is "Visual Computing as a Key Enabling Technology for Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet" (Jorge Posada, Carlos Toro, Íñigo Barandiarán et al., 2015), with 623 citations. Next come "Deep reinforcement learning for dynamic scheduling of a flexible job shop" (306) and "Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence Applications for Sustainable Precision Agriculture" (288).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Visual Computing as a Key Enabling Technology for Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet Jorge Posada, Carlos Toro, Íñigo Barandiarán et al. · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Mar 2015 623
2 Deep reinforcement learning for dynamic scheduling of a flexible job shop Renke Liu, Rajesh Piplani, Carlos Toro · International Journal of Production Research 11 Apr 2022 306
3 Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence Applications for Sustainable Precision Agriculture María Teresa Linaza, Jorge Posada, Jürgen Bund et al. · Agronomy Open access 17 Jun 2021 288
4 Synthetic data generation for tabular health records: A systematic review Mikel Hernandez, Gorka Epelde, Ane Alberdi et al. · Neurocomputing ReviewOpen access 13 Apr 2022 284
5 Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Federico Neri, Carlo Aliprandi, Federico Capeci et al. Conference paper Aug 2012 233
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Vicomtech?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Internet of Things, IoT Security, Big Data and Security.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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. Deep Learning70▲ 8.3×60 topics
  2. Machine Learning34▲ 4.1×47 topics
  3. Neural Networks23▲ 6.0×24 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks19▲ 10×13 topics
  5. Internet of Things14▲ 6.8×10 topics
  6. Sustainability12▲ 1.95×11 topics
  7. Big Data11▲ 4.6×11 topics
  8. Data Mining10▲ 5.5×11 topics
  9. Security10▲ 5.9×13 topics
  10. IoT Security10▲ 13×3 topics
  11. Healthcare9▲ 3.3×9 topics
  12. Supply Chain Management9▲ 3.9×5 topics
  13. Feature Extraction8▲ 7.5×8 topics
  14. Anomaly Detection8▲ 11×5 topics
  15. Real-time Tracking7▲ 30×2 topics
  16. Cyber-Physical Systems7▲ 11×4 topics
  17. Texture Analysis7▲ 13×3 topics
  18. Virtual Reality6▲ 5.3×7 topics
  19. Machine Vision6▲ 12×4 topics
  20. Object Tracking6▲ 40×1 topic
  21. Visual Tracking6▲ 35×1 topic
  22. Digital Twin6▲ 18×1 topic
  23. Smart Manufacturing6▲ 27×1 topic
  24. Security Analysis6▲ 14×2 topics
  25. Intelligent Transportation Systems6▲ 16×3 topics
  26. 5G Networks6▲ 11×3 topics
  27. Surveillance6▲ 8.2×3 topics
  28. Time Series6▲ 13×3 topics
  29. Smart Cities5▲ 8.1×4 topics
  30. Fabric Defect Detection5▲ 30×1 topic
  31. Image Processing5▲ 4.8×8 topics
  32. Semiconductor Manufacturing5▲ 30×1 topic
  33. Behavioral Analysis5▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Applications5▲ 6.8×3 topics
  35. Autonomous Vehicles4▲ 8.2×3 topics
  36. Probabilistic Forecasting4▲ 8.7×2 topics
  37. Short-Term Forecasting4▲ 12×2 topics
  38. User Experience4▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Outlier Detection4▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Unsupervised4▲ 15×1 topic

Which research topics does Vicomtech publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods, Digital Transformation in Industry, Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection and Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications.

Video Surveillance and T…6Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods: 6 fractional worksDigital Transformation i…6Digital Transformation in Industry: 6 fractional worksIndustrial Vision System…5Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection: 5 fractional worksAnomaly Detection Techni…4Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques: 4 fractional worksAugmented Reality Applications: 4 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing3IoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 3 fractional worksVirtual Reality Applications and Impacts: 3 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 3 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Process…3Speech and Audio Processing: 3 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceSignal Processing2 others

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

  1. 1 Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6 works
  2. 2 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 6 works
  3. 3 Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 5 works
  4. 4 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  5. 5 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 4 works
  6. 6 Augmented Reality Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  7. 7 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 3 works
  8. 8 Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts Human-Computer Interaction 3 works
  9. 9 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  10. 10 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 3 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 available43.8%not open56.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.8%domestic only77.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Vicomtech's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 77% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting20052010201520202025
grewheldshrank

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 Vicomtech as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0010% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Vicomtech0.00087% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Vicomtech over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Vicomtech9.1% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 16.3% in 2015.

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