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Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis

Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis is a research topic within Forestry. Science Explorer counts 3.7k research works in it since 1954. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the logistics, transportation, and development of agricultural resources, with a specific emphasis on soybean supply chains, environmental impact, rural infrastructure, and global trade. The papers cover topics such as the economic analysis of transportation policies, sustainability in agricultural logistics, and the impact of digitalization on the agricultural sector.

  • Logistics
  • Agriculture
  • Transportation
  • Soybean
  • Supply Chain
  • Environmental Impact
  • Rural Development
  • Infrastructure
  • Global Trade
  • Economic Analysis
Research works
3.7k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
376
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
68% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis

Which countries lead Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (542 and 125 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 542 works
  2. 2 United States 125 works
  3. 3 India 35 works
  4. 4 South Africa 21 works
  5. 5 China 21 works
  6. 6 Russia 16 works
  7. 7 Portugal 13 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 10 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 9 works
  10. 10 Mexico 8 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.

Brazil: 67.7%United States: 15.7%India: 4.4%South Africa: 2.6%6 others listed: 9.6%68%largest
Brazil542 · 67.7%United States125 · 15.7%India35 · 4.4%South Africa21 · 2.6%6 others listed77 · 9.6%

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

Which institutions lead Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, American Society of Genealogists publishes the most Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis research, followed by São Paulo State Technological College and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 45 works
  2. 2 São Paulo State Technological CollegeBrazil 21 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 17 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 15 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 15 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 13 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 12 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 9 works
  9. 9 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 9 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 9 works

What are the most cited papers in Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis?

The most cited paper in Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis is "Fault Tree Analysis, Methods, and Applications ߝ A Review" (W. S. Lee, Doris Lloyd Grosh, Frank A. Tillman et al., 1985), with 674 citations. Next come "Modeling of Transport Risk for Hazardous Materials" (363) and "Energia e meio ambiente no Brasil" (270).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fault Tree Analysis, Methods, and Applications ߝ A Review W. S. Lee, Doris Lloyd Grosh, Frank A. Tillman et al. · IEEE Transactions on Reliability Aug 1985 674
2 Modeling of Transport Risk for Hazardous Materials Erhan Erkut, Vedat Verter · Operations Research Oct 1998 363
3 Energia e meio ambiente no Brasil José Goldemberg, Oswaldo dos Santos Lucon · Estudos Avançados Open access Apr 2007 270
4 The slow pyrolysis of pomegranate seeds: The effect of temperature on the product yields and bio-oil properties Suat Uçar, Selhan Karagöz · Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 4 Feb 2009 175
5 DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS: A RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE Peter G. W. Keen · Elsevier eBooks Book chapterOpen access 1980 164
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Sharon (United States) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon, Belém and Rio de Janeiro.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 75 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 64 works
  3. 3 SharonUnited States 45 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 25 works
  5. 5 BelémBrazil 22 works
  6. 6 CuritibaBrazil 18 works
  7. 7 RecifeBrazil 17 works
  8. 8 FlorianópolisBrazil 16 works
  9. 9 NiteróiBrazil 15 works
  10. 10 Belo HorizonteBrazil 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 44.7 works464×
  2. BelémBR · 22.0 works33×
  3. Rio de JaneiroBR · 63.9 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Pará and Universidade de Brasília 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 9.16%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade de Bras…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 51.59.3%10.3×17 -17.9%
2Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 48.011.4%41.9×13 +3.8%
3Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 48.023.4%19.5×9 -45.5%
4Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 42.915.3%19.3×12 -54.8%
5Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 41.311.2%39.8×15 -23.0%
6Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 33.98.7%27.6×15 -17.2%
7São Paulo State Technological CollegeBrazil 30.03.2%439.4×22 -46.4%
8Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 13.74.3%14.4×9 -25.3%
9Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 10.53.1%24.8×9 -36.4%
10Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 5.71.7%24.1×8 -66.7%

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 Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis, country by country

Is Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0021% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis0.0029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis 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%Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis10.3% in 202520102020

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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