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Aviation History and Innovations

Aviation History and Innovations is a research topic within History and Philosophy of Science. Science Explorer counts 1.4k research works in it since 1953. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including perception in psychology, coastal habitat management, aircraft navigation, health models, data visualization, transboundary governance, environmental cooperation, digital competence, storytelling, and social climate. The papers reflect a convergence of scientific and humanistic inquiry.

  • Perception
  • Coastal Management
  • Aircraft Navigation
  • Health Models
  • Data Visualization
  • Transboundary Governance
  • Environmental Cooperation
  • Digital Competence
  • Storytelling
  • Social Climate
Research works
1.4k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
141
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+61%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Aviation History and Innovations research?

By volume, Indonesia and Brazil publish the most (244 and 218 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 244 works
  2. 2 Brazil 218 works
  3. 3 United States 31 works
  4. 4 Portugal 19 works
  5. 5 Spain 12 works
  6. 6 Mexico 11 works
  7. 7 India 9 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 9 works
  9. 9 China 8 works
  10. 10 Ecuador 7 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 43.0%Brazil: 38.4%United States: 5.5%Portugal: 3.4%6 others listed: 9.7%43%largest
Indonesia244 · 43.0%Brazil218 · 38.4%United States31 · 5.5%Portugal19 · 3.4%6 others listed55 · 9.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Aviation History and Innovations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Aviation History and Innovations research, followed by State University of Semarang and Tarumanagara University.

Who are the leading researchers in Aviation History and Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aviation History and Innovations include Carlos Fiolhais.

  1. 1 Carlos Fiolhais Portugal 42k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Aviation History and Innovations?

The most cited paper in Aviation History and Innovations is "A Review of Cloud Seeding Experiments to Enhance Precipitation and Some New Prospects" (Roelof Bruintjes, 1999), with 317 citations. Next come "Prevalencia de obesidad en adultos mexicanos, ENSANUT 2012" (222) and "Prevalencia de obesidad y factores de riesgo asociados en adultos mexicanos: resultados de la Ensanut 2022" (172).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Review of Cloud Seeding Experiments to Enhance Precipitation and Some New Prospects Roelof Bruintjes · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access May 1999 317
2 Prevalencia de obesidad en adultos mexicanos, ENSANUT 2012 Sı́món Barquera, Ismael Campos‐Nonato, Lucía Hernández-Barrera · Salud Pública de México Open access 5 Mar 2013 222
3 Prevalencia de obesidad y factores de riesgo asociados en adultos mexicanos: resultados de la Ensanut 2022 Ismael Campos‐Nonato, Oscar Galván-Valencia, Lucía Hernández-Barrera et al. · Salud Pública de México Open access 14 Jun 2023 172
4 Experiential computing Ramesh Chandra Jain · Communications of the ACM Jul 2003 119
5 Propulsion Systems J.S. Carlton · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 7 Dec 2018 77
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Where is Aviation History and Innovations research done?

The largest centres of Aviation History and Innovations research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), São Paulo (Brazil), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in São Paulo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 36 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 31 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 19 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 19 works
  5. 5 SemarangIndonesia 18 works
  6. 6 MedanIndonesia 16 works
  7. 7 MalangIndonesia 12 works
  8. 8 BrasíliaBrazil 11 works
  9. 9 Belo HorizonteBrazil 10 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. São PauloBR · 30.6 works8.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Aviation History and Innovations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Aviation History and Innovations?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 10.06.9%9.2×10 +109.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Aviation History and Innovations, country by country

Is Aviation History and Innovations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 61% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Aviation History and Innovations.

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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 Aviation History and Innovations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Aviation History and Innovations 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.

still counting5%10%15%Aviation History and Innovations10.1% in 20252020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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