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Vlakwa

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Research works
63
▲ 169% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.3k
20.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
66%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Vlakwa

Not ranked overall: Vlakwa 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 Vlakwa work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Vlakwa is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (21%), Mathematics (19%), Computer Science (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 79.2% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 21.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 8.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 4.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 19.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 2 fractional works · 7.7% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 13.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 8.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 8.9% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 7.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBioengineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 9.4% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 8.0% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 7.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKVlakwa32fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences4%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering721.0%
    2. Mathematics619.2%
    3. Computer Science413.8%
    4. Materials Science38.9%
    5. Environmental Science27.7%
    6. Physics and Astronomy13.5%
    7. Chemistry13.0%
    8. Energy01.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.3%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    1. Medicine38.0%
    2. Health Professions01.0%
    3. Dentistry00.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.9%
    3. Neuroscience00.9%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    1. Social Sciences11.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting11.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    4. Decision Sciences00.1%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.98× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.91× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.78× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.33× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.40× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.55× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.56× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 16.35× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.59× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.79× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 16.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics16.35×6 works
  2. Materials Science2.56×3 works
  3. Chemistry1.91×1 works
  4. Computer Science1.78×4 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.59×1 works
  6. Environmental Science1.55×2 works
  7. Engineering1.40×7 works
  8. Energy1.33×0 works
  9. Chemical Engineering1.03×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.98×2 works
  11. Dentistry0.79×0 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.57×1 works
  13. Neuroscience0.54×0 works
  14. Medicine0.42×2 works
  15. Health Professions0.38×0 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×0 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.22×0 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.19×0 works
  19. Social Sciences0.15×1 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.14×0 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.09×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Vlakwa?

The most cited paper from Vlakwa is "One hyper-heuristic approach to two timetabling problems in health care" (Burak Bi̇lgi̇n, Peter Demeester, Mustafa Mısır et al., 2011), with 97 citations. Next come "A shift sequence based approach for nurse scheduling and a new benchmark dataset" (96) and "Bottle or tap? Toward an integrated approach to water type consumption" (83).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 One hyper-heuristic approach to two timetabling problems in health care Burak Bi̇lgi̇n, Peter Demeester, Mustafa Mısır et al. · Journal of Heuristics Open access 7 Nov 2011 97
2 A shift sequence based approach for nurse scheduling and a new benchmark dataset Peter Brucker, Edmund K. Burke, Tim Curtois et al. · Journal of Heuristics Open access 14 Nov 2008 96
3 Bottle or tap? Toward an integrated approach to water type consumption Robbe Geerts, Frédéric Vandermoere, Tim Van Winckel et al. · Water Research 31 Jan 2020 83
4 Good Laboratory Practice for optimization research Graham Kendall, Ruibin Bai, Jacek Błażewicz et al. · Journal of the Operational Research Society Open access 21 Oct 2015 82
5 Evaluation of the specificity and sensitivity of ferritin as an MRI reporter gene in the mouse brain using lentiviral and adeno-associated viral vectors Greetje Vande Velde, Janaki Raman Rangarajan, Jaan Toelen et al. · Gene Therapy 24 Feb 2011 74
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Vlakwa?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Maritime Transportation, Collision Avoidance, Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Approximation Algorithms, Supply Chain Management, Algorithmic Applications, Container Terminals and Operations Research.

▲ 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 14 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 14 words, with their numbers
  1. Maritime Transportation3▲ 172×2 topics
  2. Collision Avoidance2▲ 43×1 topic
  3. Unmanned Surface Vehicles2▲ 251×1 topic
  4. Supply Chain Management2▲ 5.4×3 topics
  5. Approximation Algorithms1▲ 60×3 topics
  6. Algorithmic Applications1▲ 108×2 topics
  7. Container Terminals1▲ 142×1 topic
  8. Operations Research1▲ 23×1 topic
  9. Graph Theory1▲ 29×2 topics
  10. Symplectic Geometry1▲ 91×2 topics
  11. Biomedical Applications1▲ 2.7×6 topics
  12. Knot Invariants1▲ 208×1 topic
  13. Nanocomposites1▲ 4.2×6 topics
  14. Symplectic Topology1▲ 208×1 topic

Which research topics does Vlakwa publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Maritime Navigation and Safety, Maritime Ports and Logistics, Advanced Graph Theory Research and Geometric and Algebraic Topology.

Maritime Navigation and …2Maritime Navigation and Safety: 2 fractional worksMaritime Ports and Logis…1Maritime Ports and Logistics: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Theory Re…1Advanced Graph Theory Research: 1 fractional worksGeometric and Algebraic Topology: 1 fractional worksLimits and Structures in Graph Theory: 1 fractional worksHomotopy and Cohomology …1Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: 0 fractional worksMaritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency: 0 fractional worksAlgebraic Geometry and Number Theory: 0 fractional worksFinite Group Theory Research: 0 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringComputational Theory and MathematicsGeometry and Topology4 others

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

  1. 1 Maritime Navigation and Safety Ocean Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Advanced Graph Theory Research Computational Theory and Mathematics 1 works
  4. 4 Geometric and Algebraic Topology Geometry and Topology 1 works
  5. 5 Limits and Structures in Graph Theory Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics 1 works
  6. 6 Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology Mathematical Physics 1 works
  7. 7 Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 0 works
  8. 8 Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency Environmental Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Geometry and Topology 0 works
  10. 10 Finite Group Theory Research Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics 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 available65.6%not open34.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.3%domestic only68.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Vlakwa's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 169% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Vlakwa as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000093% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Vlakwa0.00022% in 20251990200020102020

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

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