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Vlakwa

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Research works
63
▲ 41% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.3k
20.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
66%
world 28%

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.

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: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.14× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.19× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.21× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.84× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.54× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.48× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.49× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.70× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 13.71× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.84× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 13.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Vlakwa?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Maritime Transportation, Collision Avoidance, Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Supply Chain Management, Approximation Algorithms, Container Terminals, Operations Research and Algorithmic Applications.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 9 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 9 words, with their numbers
  1. Maritime Transportation3▲ 206×2 topics
  2. Collision Avoidance2▲ 50×1 topic
  3. Unmanned Surface Vehicles2▲ 301×1 topic
  4. Supply Chain Management2▲ 6.0×3 topics
  5. Approximation Algorithms1▲ 61×3 topics
  6. Container Terminals1▲ 163×1 topic
  7. Operations Research1▲ 24×1 topic
  8. Algorithmic Applications1▲ 104×2 topics
  9. Biomedical Applications1▲ 3.1×6 topics

Which research topics does Vlakwa publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Maritime Navigation and Safety, Maritime Ports and Logistics, Advanced Graph Theory Research and Limits and Structures in Graph Theory.

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 worksLimits and Structures in Graph Theory: 1 fractional worksGeometric and Algebraic Topology: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Thermodynamics …0Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: 0 fractional worksMaritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency: 0 fractional worksHomotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology: 0 fractional worksMathematical Dynamics and Fractals: 0 fractional worksgraph theory and CDMA systems: 0 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringComputational Theory and MathematicsDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics5 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 Limits and Structures in Graph Theory Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics 1 works
  5. 5 Geometric and Algebraic Topology Geometry and Topology 1 works
  6. 6 Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 0 works
  7. 7 Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency Environmental Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology Mathematical Physics 0 works
  9. 9 Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals Mathematical Physics 0 works
  10. 10 graph theory and CDMA systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Vlakwa's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 41% higher than in 2013–2017.

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