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Environmental and Industrial Safety

Environmental and Industrial Safety is a research topic within Environmental Engineering. Science Explorer counts 7.8k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the probabilistic analysis of environmental risks and solutions, including topics such as air pollution, energy costs, renewable energy, fire detection, structural models, nuclear power plants, water quality monitoring, smart grid technology, and composite materials.

  • Environmental Risk Analysis
  • Air Pollution
  • Energy Costs
  • Renewable Energy
  • Fire Detection
  • Structural Models
  • Nuclear Power Plants
  • Water Quality Monitoring
  • Smart Grid Technology
  • Composite Materials
Research works
7.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
780
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental and Industrial Safety

Which countries lead Environmental and Industrial Safety research?

By volume, Ukraine and Russia publish the most (980 and 582 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 980 works
  2. 2 Russia 582 works
  3. 3 United States 144 works
  4. 4 China 116 works
  5. 5 Poland 58 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 54 works
  7. 7 Kazakhstan 38 works
  8. 8 India 28 works
  9. 9 Belarus 28 works
  10. 10 Germany 24 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.

Ukraine: 47.7%Russia: 28.4%United States: 7.0%China: 5.6%6 others listed: 11.2%48%largest
Ukraine980 · 47.7%Russia582 · 28.4%United States144 · 7.0%China116 · 5.6%6 others listed230 · 11.2%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental and Industrial Safety research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine publishes the most Environmental and Industrial Safety research, followed by National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 146 works
  2. 2 National University of Civil Protection of UkraineUkraine 89 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 70 works
  4. 4 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 63 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 51 works
  6. 6 Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 41 works
  7. 7 Academy of the State Fire Service EMERCOM of RussiaRussia 32 works
  8. 8 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 30 works
  9. 9 National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 28 works
  10. 10 Kyiv National University of Construction and ArchitectureUkraine 28 works

What are the most cited papers in Environmental and Industrial Safety?

The most cited paper in Environmental and Industrial Safety is "VERIFICATION OF FORECASTS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF PROBABILITY" (Glenn W. Brier, 1950), with 5,528 citations. Next come "Hydrodynamic cavitation based advanced oxidation processes: Studies on specific effects of inorganic acids on the degradation effectiveness of organic pollutants" (620) and "SOLUBLE TRANSITION METALS MEDIATE RESIDUAL OIL FLY ASH INDUCED ACUTE LUNG INJURY" (491).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 VERIFICATION OF FORECASTS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF PROBABILITY Glenn W. Brier · Monthly Weather Review 1950 5,528
2 Hydrodynamic cavitation based advanced oxidation processes: Studies on specific effects of inorganic acids on the degradation effectiveness of organic pollutants Michał Gągol, Elvana Çako, К. Н. Федоров et al. · Journal of Molecular Liquids Open access 27 Mar 2020 620
3 SOLUBLE TRANSITION METALS MEDIATE RESIDUAL OIL FLY ASH INDUCED ACUTE LUNG INJURY Kevin L. Dreher · Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Feb 1997 491
4 The role of liquid–liquid phase separation in aggregation of the TDP-43 low-complexity domain W. Michael Babinchak, Raza Haider, Benjamin K. Dumm et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access 27 Feb 2019 433
5 Study on preparation and fire-retardant mechanism analysis of intumescent flame-retardant coatings Junwei Gu, Guang-cheng Zhang, Shan-lai Dong et al. · Surface and Coatings Technology 22 Mar 2007 410
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Where is Environmental and Industrial Safety research done?

The largest centres of Environmental and Industrial Safety research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Kharkiv (Ukraine) and Cherkasy (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cherkasy, Dnipro and Kharkiv.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 348 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 195 works
  3. 3 KharkivUkraine 137 works
  4. 4 CherkasyUkraine 98 works
  5. 5 LvivUkraine 74 works
  6. 6 DniproUkraine 56 works
  7. 7 WeatherfordUnited States 51 works
  8. 8 OdesaUkraine 45 works
  9. 9 TomskRussia 42 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CherkasyUA · 98.1 works382×
  2. DniproUA · 56.3 works76×
  3. KharkivUA · 137.5 works60×
  4. OdesaUA · 45.3 works55×
  5. KyivUA · 348.4 works54×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Environmental and Industrial Safety than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Environmental and Industrial Safety?

Among universities, judged by research, Tomsk Polytechnic University, National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine and National Research Tomsk State University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tomsk Polytechnic Un…National Research To…Weatherford CollegeNational University …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

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
1Tomsk Polytechnic UniversityRussia 59.327.1%123.5×17 -50.1%
2National University of Civil Protection of UkraineUkraine 54.75.1%808.6×89 +43.4%
3National Research Tomsk State UniversityRussia 52.122.9%54.6×21 -40.5%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 49.28.3%19.0×51 +18.8%
5National University of Water and Environmental EngineeringUkraine 48.125.6%143.4×13 +8.4%
6Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 45.929.2%36.2×11 -11.9%
7National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 45.86.0%137.6×63 +18.1%
8Voronezh State Technical UniversityRussia 44.424.4%170.6×14 -2.2%
9Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 40.79.1%78.0×41 -11.5%
10Dnipro University of TechnologyUkraine 38.37.0%165.6×18 +72.7%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Environmental and Industrial Safety, country by country

Is Environmental and Industrial Safety research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 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 Environmental and Industrial Safety as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0074% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Environmental and Industrial Safety0.0077% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental and Industrial Safety 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%Environmental and Industrial Safety10.5% in 2025200020102020

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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