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VUTS (Czechia)

In research, VUTS (Czechia) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#15,166 of 17,446 worldwide) and Engineering (#8,885 of 9,532 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#28,977
of 34,923
Rank in Czechia
#131
of 198
Research works
460
▼ 21% vs 2018-21
Citations
709
1.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.62×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
23%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
VUTS (Czechia)

What is VUTS (Czechia) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #15,166 of 17,446 2.3%422
EngineeringField #8,885 of 9,532 2.1%310

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where VUTS (Czechia) 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 fields of science does VUTS (Czechia) work in?

In 2022-now, 91% of research at VUTS (Czechia) is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (64%), Materials Science (16%), Computer Science (5%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 47 fractional works · 90.5% of its workEngineering: 34 fractional works · 64.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 22.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 9.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 7.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 5.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 8 fractional works · 15.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 4 fractional works · 8.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCeramics and Composites: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKVUTS (Czechia)52fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences2%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering3464.4%
    2. Materials Science815.8%
    3. Computer Science24.8%
    4. Environmental Science12.5%
    5. Energy11.4%
    6. Chemistry00.9%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    10. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.9%
    2. Neuroscience11.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.5%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine12.3%
    2. Dentistry00.3%
    3. Health Professions00.0%
    1. Arts and Humanities01.0%
    2. Psychology00.6%
    3. Social Sciences00.5%
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: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.52× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.30× its world share, 34 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 4.51× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Materials Science, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Materials Science4.51×8 works
  2. Engineering4.30×34 works
  3. Energy1.52×1 works
  4. Neuroscience0.78×1 works
  5. Dentistry0.66×0 works
  6. Computer Science0.61×2 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.60×2 works
  8. Chemistry0.59×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.50×1 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.45×0 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.36×0 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.33×0 works
  13. Psychology0.21×0 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.16×0 works
  15. Mathematics0.14×0 works
  16. Medicine0.12×1 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.10×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×0 works
  19. Social Sciences0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at VUTS (Czechia)?

Ranked on the quality score, Miroslav Václavík, Ondřej Marek and Jaroslav Antoš lead among researchers whose main affiliation is VUTS (Czechia).

  1. 1 Miroslav Václavík Czechia · #3,585,471 worldwide 71 citations · 25 works
  2. 2 Ondřej Marek Czechia · #3,760,646 worldwide 7 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Jaroslav Antoš Czechia · #3,821,544 worldwide 153 citations · 31 works
  4. 4 P. Jirásko Czechia · #3,913,831 worldwide 26 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Pavel Šidlof Czechia · #4,000,370 worldwide 17 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 Jiří Ondrášek Czechia · #4,113,558 worldwide 31 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Pavel Fišer Czechia · #4,471,415 worldwide 21 citations · 18 works
  8. 8 Jerry L Korf Czechia · #4,488,146 worldwide 18 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Jan Kolář Czechia · #4,603,353 worldwide 13 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Noboru Inui Czechia · #4,616,957 worldwide 16 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at VUTS (Czechia)

What are the most cited papers from VUTS (Czechia)?

The most cited paper from VUTS (Czechia) is "Tracking Free-Weight Exercises" (Keng-hao Chang, Mike Y. Chen, John Canny, 2008), with 121 citations. Next come "Novel techniques to analyse thermal performance of aerogel-treated blankets under extreme temperatures" (44) and "Incremental sheet metal forming on the example of car exterior skin parts" (39).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Tracking Free-Weight Exercises Keng-hao Chang, Mike Y. Chen, John Canny Apr 2008 121
2 Novel techniques to analyse thermal performance of aerogel-treated blankets under extreme temperatures Mohanapriya Venkataraman, Rajesh Mishra, Jakub Wiener et al. · Journal of the Textile Institute 21 Jul 2014 44
3 Incremental sheet metal forming on the example of car exterior skin parts Sören Scheffler, Alexander Pierer, Peter Scholz et al. · Procedia Manufacturing Open access 2019 39
4 Polylactide/lignin blends Gianluca Cicala, Giuseppe Saccullo, Ignazio Blanco et al. · Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 14 Mar 2017 33
5 New solutions for the manufacturing of spacer preforms for thermoplastic textile-reinforced lightweight structures Knut Großmann, Andreas Mühl, Michael Löser et al. · Production Engineering 26 Aug 2010 32
All 65 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at VUTS (Czechia)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heat Transfer, Mechanical Properties, Finite Element Analysis, Mechanical Behavior, Thermal Properties, Fabric Comfort, Moisture Management and Artificial Intelligence.

▲ 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. Heat Transfer5▲ 19×7 topics
  2. Mechanical Properties5▲ 8.9×14 topics
  3. Finite Element Analysis4▲ 35×3 topics
  4. Artificial Intelligence4▲ 5.5×3 topics
  5. Mechanical Behavior4▲ 64×2 topics
  6. Thermal Properties4▲ 60×2 topics
  7. Fabric Comfort4▲ 248×1 topic
  8. Moisture Management4▲ 248×1 topic
  9. Deep Learning4▲ 1.98×10 topics
  10. Adhesive Joints3▲ 83×2 topics
  11. Vibration Analysis3▲ 21×5 topics
  12. Optimization3▲ 12×2 topics
  13. Machine Tools2▲ 73×3 topics
  14. Fracture Mechanics2▲ 72×3 topics
  15. Genetic Algorithms2▲ 32×2 topics
  16. Nonlinear Dynamics2▲ 20×2 topics
  17. Composite Springs2▲ 148×1 topic
  18. Vehicle Suspension2▲ 137×1 topic
  19. Additive Manufacturing2▲ 12×5 topics
  20. Cohesive Zone Models2▲ 97×1 topic
  21. Delamination2▲ 66×1 topic
  22. Polymer Composites2▲ 13×3 topics
  23. Gear Dynamics2▲ 101×1 topic
  24. Mesh Stiffness2▲ 101×1 topic
  25. Tool Wear2▲ 25×2 topics
  26. Corrosion2▲ 24×3 topics
  27. Metal Nanoparticles2▲ 19×3 topics
  28. Tribological Performance1▲ 47×2 topics
  29. Applications1▲ 8.9×3 topics
  30. CNC Systems1▲ 91×1 topic
  31. Cutting Processes1▲ 91×1 topic
  32. Steel1▲ 60×2 topics
  33. Surface Roughness1▲ 19×3 topics
  34. Finite Element Method1▲ 23×2 topics
  35. Friction1▲ 38×3 topics
  36. Friction Reduction1▲ 83×1 topic
  37. Laser Surface Texturing1▲ 83×1 topic
  38. 3D Reconstruction1▲ 23×2 topics
  39. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics1▲ 67×1 topic
  40. Composite Materials1▲ 10×3 topics

Which research topics does VUTS (Czechia) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Textile materials and evaluations, Mechanical Engineering and Vibrations Research, Mechanical Behavior of Composites and Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis.

Textile materials and ev…4Textile materials and evaluations: 4 fractional worksMechanical Engineering and Vibrations Research: 2 fractional worksMechanical Behavior of C…2Mechanical Behavior of Composites: 2 fractional worksGear and Bearing Dynamic…2Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis: 2 fractional worksEngineering Technology and Methodologies: 1 fractional worksTribology and Lubrication Engineering: 1 fractional worksMaterial Properties and …1Material Properties and Applications: 1 fractional worksManufacturing Process and Optimization: 1 fractional works3D Shape Modeling and Analysis: 1 fractional worksEngineering Diagnostics and Reliability: 1 fractional works
Polymers and PlasticsMechanical EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Textile materials and evaluations Polymers and Plastics 4 works
  2. 2 Mechanical Engineering and Vibrations Research Mechanical Engineering 2 works
  3. 3 Mechanical Behavior of Composites Mechanics of Materials 2 works
  4. 4 Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis Mechanical Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Engineering Technology and Methodologies Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Tribology and Lubrication Engineering Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Material Properties and Applications General Materials Science 1 works
  8. 8 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis Computational Mechanics 1 works
  10. 10 Engineering Diagnostics and Reliability Mechanics of Materials 1 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 available23.3%not open76.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.3%domestic only88.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has VUTS (Czechia)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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 VUTS (Czechia) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00027% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%VUTS (Czechia)0.00021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of VUTS (Czechia) 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.

5%10%all institutions10.0% in 2020VUTS (Czechia)0.7% in 202020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 4.3% in 2010.

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