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Wescam (Canada)

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Research works
14
▼ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
55
3.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
5%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Wescam (Canada)

Not ranked overall: Wescam (Canada) 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 Wescam (Canada) work in?

In all years, 84% of research at Wescam (Canada) is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (49%), Physics and Astronomy (14%), Medicine (14%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 83.6% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 49.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 17.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 14.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 14.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 14.1% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 14.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workALL ITS WORKWescam (Canada)14fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences84%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences2%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 3 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering749.3%
    2. Physics and Astronomy214.1%
    3. Computer Science18.2%
    4. Materials Science14.7%
    5. Environmental Science13.7%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences02.3%
    7. Chemistry01.2%
    1. Medicine214.1%
    1. Social Sciences02.3%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Wescam (Canada)?

The most cited paper from Wescam (Canada) is "Cavity resonance in the violin: Network representation and the effect of damped and undamped rib holes" (Edgar A. G. Shaw, 1990), with 20 citations. Next come "Slit diaphragm flexures for optomechanics" (18) and "High-magnification zoom lenses for 3- to 5-μm applications" (10).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cavity resonance in the violin: Network representation and the effect of damped and undamped rib holes Edgar A. G. Shaw · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1990 20
2 Slit diaphragm flexures for optomechanics Daniel Vukobratovich, Ralph M. Richard, J. P. McNiven et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 6 Sep 1995 18
3 High-magnification zoom lenses for 3- to 5-μm applications Robert L. Sinclair · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 7 Aug 1998 10
4 An open source flight dynamics model and IMU signal simulator James G. McAnanama, Marsden Greg Conference paper Apr 2018 7
5 Damping and Bandgap Characteristics of a Viscoelastic Tensegrity Damper Mohamed Salem Raafat, Amr M. S. Baz · Journal of vibration and acoustics 8 May 2021 6
All 15 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Wescam (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and fisheries research and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Isotope Analysis in Ecol…0Isotope Analysis in Ecology: 0 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…0Marine and fisheries research: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…0Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional works
EcologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeNature and Landscape Conservation

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

  1. 1 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 0 works
  2. 2 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  3. 3 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available4.9%not open95.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.5%domestic only84.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Wescam (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 100% lower 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 Wescam (Canada) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2018.

0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Wescam (Canada)0.0000097% in 20211990200020102020

Fractional works of Wescam (Canada) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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