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Industrial and Mining Safety

Industrial and Mining Safety is a research topic within Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Science Explorer counts 2.5k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on occupational health and safety management systems, with a specific emphasis on risk assessment, work environments, explosion risk, renewable energy, environmental pollution, mining hazards, quality management, and sustainable development.

  • Occupational Health
  • Safety Management
  • Risk Assessment
  • Work Environments
  • Explosion Risk
  • Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Mining Hazards
  • Quality Management
  • Sustainable Development
Research works
2.5k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
251
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Industrial and Mining Safety research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (129 and 72 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 129 works
  2. 2 Russia 72 works
  3. 3 Romania 44 works
  4. 4 China 34 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 31 works
  6. 6 United States 23 works
  7. 7 India 9 works
  8. 8 Slovakia 8 works
  9. 9 Czechia 7 works
  10. 10 Sri Lanka 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.

Poland: 35.5%Russia: 19.7%Romania: 12.1%China: 9.5%6 others listed: 23.2%35%largest
Poland129 · 35.5%Russia72 · 19.7%Romania44 · 12.1%China34 · 9.5%6 others listed85 · 23.2%

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

Which institutions lead Industrial and Mining Safety research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universitatea Din Petrosani publishes the most Industrial and Mining Safety research, followed by Institutul Naţional de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Securitate Minieră şi Protecţie Antiexplozivă - INSEMEX and Silesian University of Technology.

Who are the leading researchers in Industrial and Mining Safety?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Industrial and Mining Safety include Anna Kaczmarska.

  1. 1 Anna Kaczmarska France 114k 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 Industrial and Mining Safety?

The most cited paper in Industrial and Mining Safety is "Experimental modeling of vortex tube refrigerator" (Mohammad Hassan Saidi, Mohammad Sadegh Valipour, 2003), with 187 citations. Next come "Numerical investigations of the compressible flow and the energy separation in the Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube" (156) and "Optimization of counter flow Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube performance using Taguchi method" (151).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Experimental modeling of vortex tube refrigerator Mohammad Hassan Saidi, Mohammad Sadegh Valipour · Applied Thermal Engineering 20 Jun 2003 187
2 Numerical investigations of the compressible flow and the energy separation in the Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube W. Fröhlingsdorf, Hermann E. Unger · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Feb 1999 156
3 Optimization of counter flow Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube performance using Taguchi method Ahmet Murat Pınar, Onuralp Uluer, Volkan Kırmacı · International Journal of Refrigeration 13 Mar 2009 151
4 Large eddy simulations of the flow field and temperature separation in the Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube Tanvir Farouk, Bakhtier Farouk · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 28 Jun 2007 143
5 The Regulation of Working Methods as a Function of Work-load among Air Traffic Controllers Jean‐Claude Sperandio · Ergonomics Mar 1978 138
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Industrial and Mining Safety research done?

The largest centres of Industrial and Mining Safety research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Petroşani (Romania), Moscow (Russia) and Krakow (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Petroşani, Warsaw and Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 33 works
  2. 2 PetroşaniRomania 29 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 25 works
  4. 4 KrakowPoland 15 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 13 works
  6. 6 Saint PetersburgRussia 13 works
  7. 7 GliwicePoland 13 works
  8. 8 BucharestRomania 9 works
  9. 9 PoznańPoland 9 works
  10. 10 WrocławPoland 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PetroşaniRO · 29.2 works2466×
  2. WarsawPL · 33.1 works26×
  3. MoscowRU · 25.4 works6.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Industrial and Mining Safety than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, AGH University of Krakow, Silesian University of Technology and Universitatea Din Petrosani 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%10%20%mean 11.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →AGH University of Kr…Silesian University …Military University …Universitatea Din Pe…
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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
1AGH University of KrakowPoland 50.019.9%57.0×8 -43.6%
2Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 48.017.4%127.5×12 -63.7%
3Universitatea Din PetrosaniRomania 39.53.6%1750.2×15 +18.1%
4Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 11.64.3%284.1×10 -37.8%

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 Industrial and Mining Safety, country by country

Is Industrial and Mining Safety research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Industrial and Mining Safety as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Industrial and Mining 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%Industrial and Mining Safety10.2% 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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