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Align Technology (United States)

In research, Align Technology (United States) stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,830 of 16,688 worldwide), Complementary and alternative medicine (#222 of 470 worldwide) and Medicine (#8,860 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Complementary and alternative medicine, General Social Sciences and Religious studies (Complementary and alternative medicine is 138.4× its share of world research).

aligntech.comROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#17,330
of 22,385 · #12,100 all time
Rank in United States
#2,538
of 3,332
Research works
518
▲ 179% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9k
3.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.06×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
87%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Align Technology (United States)

What is Align Technology (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #5,830 of 16,688 4.2%262
Complementary and alternative medicineSubfield #222 of 470 3.1%178
MedicineField #8,860 of 14,558 3.9%244
Social SciencesDomain #10,408 of 14,833 8.2%183

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Align Technology (United States) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Align Technology (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Align Technology (United States) is in Health Sciences, 38% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (51%), Arts and Humanities (19%), Social Sciences (17%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 231 fractional works · 52.4% of its workMedicine: 223 fractional works · 50.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 178 fractional works · 40.4% of its workPharmacology: 15 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSurgery: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrthodontics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 169 fractional works · 38.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 82 fractional works · 18.7% of its workReligious studies: 74 fractional works · 16.7% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 77 fractional works · 17.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 62 fractional works · 14.0% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 24 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAlign Technology(United States)441fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences52%Social Sciences38%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine22350.5%
    2. Dentistry51.1%
    3. Health Professions30.7%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    1. Arts and Humanities8218.7%
    2. Social Sciences7717.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting40.9%
    4. Psychology40.8%
    5. Decision Sciences20.4%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology122.7%
    2. Neuroscience51.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences41.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    1. Computer Science81.8%
    2. Engineering41.0%
    3. Environmental Science20.4%
    4. Mathematics10.2%
    5. Chemistry10.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    7. Materials Science00.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Align Technology (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Complementary and alternative medicine takes 138.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Complementary and alternative medicineSubfield · 178.0 works138×
  2. General Social SciencesSubfield · 61.7 works128×
  3. Religious studiesSubfield · 73.5 works100×
  4. Arts and HumanitiesField · 82.2 works6.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.50× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.69× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.90× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.23× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.33× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.63× its world share, 223 worksMedicineNursing: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 6.46× its world share, 82 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.38× its world share, 77 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities6.46×82 works
  2. Medicine2.63×223 works
  3. Dentistry2.33×5 works
  4. Social Sciences1.38×77 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.90×1 works
  6. Neuroscience0.69×5 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.50×12 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.40×2 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.29×1 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.29×4 works
  11. Health Professions0.28×3 works
  12. Psychology0.27×4 works
  13. Computer Science0.23×8 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×4 works
  15. Mathematics0.18×1 works
  16. Chemistry0.11×1 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.09×1 works
  18. Environmental Science0.07×2 works
  19. Engineering0.06×4 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.06×0 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.05×0 works
  22. Nursing0.04×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.02×0 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Align Technology (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Catherine Baranowski, Dana L. Cortade and Kalpna Ranadive lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Align Technology (United States).

  1. 1 Catherine Baranowski United States · #471,068 worldwide 992 citations · 53 works
  2. 2 Dana L. Cortade United States · #1,869,804 worldwide 472 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Kalpna Ranadive United States · #3,014,863 worldwide 0 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Kalpna Ranadive United States · #6,390,989 worldwide 0 citations · 384 works
All ranked researchers at Align Technology (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Align Technology (United States)?

The most cited paper from Align Technology (United States) is "The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)" (James R. Lemen et al., 2011), with 4,818 citations. Next come "Multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of Parkinson’s disease" (286) and "Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment—defining the path forward" (139).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) James R. Lemen et al. · Solar Physics Open access Jun 2011 4,818
2 Multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of Parkinson’s disease Jonggeol Jeffrey Kim et al. · Nature Genetics ReviewOpen access300 authors 28 Dec 2023 286
3 Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment—defining the path forward Johannes A. Drielsma, Andrea J. Russell-Vaccari, Thomas L. Drnek et al. · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment Open access 9 Nov 2015 139
4 Pseudo RGB-D Face Recognition Bo Jin, Leandro Cruz, Nuno Gonçalves · IEEE Sensors Journal 15 Aug 2022 107
5 Fertility-Household Credit Burden Nexus at the Present Stage Ilya N. Gurov, Elena Yu. Kulikova · Population and Economics Open access 31 Mar 2022 104
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Align Technology (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Precision Medicine, Genomic Analysis, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Cancer, Religion and History.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Precision Medicine114▲ 52×4 topics
  2. Genomic Analysis113▲ 100×2 topics
  3. Ayurveda113▲ 1015×1 topic
  4. Traditional Chinese Medicine113▲ 216×1 topic
  5. Traditional Medicine79▲ 123×4 topics
  6. Cancer75▲ 13×7 topics
  7. Religion73▲ 36×4 topics
  8. History73▲ 24×3 topics
  9. Philosophy73▲ 37×2 topics
  10. Culture73▲ 32×2 topics
  11. Buddhism73▲ 900×1 topic
  12. South Asia73▲ 900×1 topic
  13. Antioxidant66▲ 22×5 topics
  14. Epidemiology66▲ 3.7×24 topics
  15. Neuroprotective64▲ 94×3 topics
  16. Big Data64▲ 15×7 topics
  17. Healthcare62▲ 12×7 topics
  18. Sustainability62▲ 5.8×6 topics
  19. Cultural Heritage62▲ 26×2 topics
  20. Agriculture61▲ 37×2 topics
  21. Biofeedback61▲ 2501×1 topic
  22. Indigenous Knowledge61▲ 134×1 topic
  23. Ocimum sanctum60▲ 540×1 topic
  24. Withania somnifera60▲ 540×1 topic
  25. Inflammation20▲ 2.2×17 topics
  26. Anti-inflammatory18▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Osteoarthritis16▲ 27×3 topics
  28. Pharmacology15▲ 14×3 topics
  29. Apoptosis15▲ 11×3 topics
  30. Boswellic Acids15▲ 338×1 topic
  31. Guggulsterone15▲ 338×1 topic
  32. Aging11▲ 4.5×3 topics
  33. Cardiovascular Disease9▲ 1.80×7 topics
  34. Neurological Disorders8▲ 3.4×4 topics
  35. Neuropsychological Assessment8▲ 68×3 topics
  36. Physiology8▲ 69×1 topic
  37. Toxicology8▲ 11×1 topic
  38. DNA Sequences5▲ 173×1 topic
  39. Genomic Signal Processing5▲ 173×1 topic
  40. Anatomy4▲ 13×3 topics

Which research topics does Align Technology (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies, Indian and Buddhist Studies, Multidisciplinary Research Papers Compilation and Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants.

Traditional Chinese Medi…113Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies: 113 fractional worksIndian and Buddhist Stud…73Indian and Buddhist Studies: 73 fractional worksMultidisciplinary Research Papers Compilation: 61 fractional worksPhytochemicals and Medicinal Plants: 60 fractional worksPharmacological Effects of Medicinal Plants: 15 fractional worksMedical Case Reports and Studies: 8 fractional worksFractal and DNA sequence analysis: 5 fractional worksMedicinal Plants and Neuroprotection: 3 fractional worksHistory of Medicine Studies: 3 fractional worksHumic Substances and Bio-Organic Studies: 3 fractional works
Complementary and alternative medicineReligious studiesGeneral Social SciencesPharmacology4 others

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

  1. 1 Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 113 works
  2. 2 Indian and Buddhist Studies Religious studies 73 works
  3. 3 Multidisciplinary Research Papers Compilation General Social Sciences 61 works
  4. 4 Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants Complementary and alternative medicine 60 works
  5. 5 Pharmacological Effects of Medicinal Plants Pharmacology 15 works
  6. 6 Medical Case Reports and Studies Surgery 8 works
  7. 7 Fractal and DNA sequence analysis Molecular Biology 5 works
  8. 8 Medicinal Plants and Neuroprotection Complementary and alternative medicine 3 works
  9. 9 History of Medicine Studies History 3 works
  10. 10 Humic Substances and Bio-Organic Studies Soil Science 3 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 available87.1%not open12.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.4%domestic only86.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Align Technology (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 179% higher 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 Align Technology (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00038% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Align Technology (United States)0.00042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Align Technology (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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