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AlphaMicron (United States)

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Research works
18
▲ 40% vs 2018-21
Citations
247
13.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
AlphaMicron (United States)

Not ranked overall: AlphaMicron (United States) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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

In all years, 86% of research at AlphaMicron (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Materials Science (33%), Engineering (28%), Computer Science (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 86.1% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 33.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 5 fractional works · 26.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 27.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 16.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 13.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 6.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKAlphaMicron(United States)18fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences2%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Materials Science633.4%
    2. Engineering527.7%
    3. Computer Science313.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy17.3%
    5. Chemistry13.8%
    1. Health Professions14.3%
    2. Medicine13.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.7%
    2. Neuroscience00.9%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting01.2%
    2. Decision Sciences00.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Computer Science: 3.56× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.32× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 4.06× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 7.54× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.76× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.40× its world share, 0 worksDecision Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 7.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions7.54×1 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.40×0 works
  3. Materials Science4.06×1 works
  4. Computer Science3.56×1 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.76×0 works
  6. Engineering1.32×1 works
  7. Medicine0.44×0 works

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

The most cited paper from AlphaMicron (United States) is "Light-induced liquid crystallinity" (T. Kósa, L. Sukhomlinova, Linli Su et al., 2012), with 168 citations. Next come "Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and three-dimensional director structures in homeotropic cells" (117) and "Widely Tunable, Photoinvertible Cholesteric Liquid Crystals" (108).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Light-induced liquid crystallinity T. Kósa, L. Sukhomlinova, Linli Su et al. · Nature May 2012 168
2 Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and three-dimensional director structures in homeotropic cells Ivan I. Smalyukh, Bohdan Senyuk, Peter Palffy‐Muhoray et al. · Physical Review E Open access 30 Dec 2005 117
3 Widely Tunable, Photoinvertible Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Timothy J. White, Seth Cazzell, Alexander S. Freer et al. · Advanced Materials 4 Feb 2011 108
4 Continuous wave mirrorless lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals with a pitch gradient across the cell gap Alfonso Muñoz, Michael E. McConney, T. Kósa et al. · Optics Letters 12 Jul 2012 42
5 High‐ambient‐contrast augmented reality with a tunable transmittance liquid crystal film and a functional reflective polarizer Ruidong Zhu, Haiwei Chen, T. Kósa et al. · Journal of the Society for Information Display Open access 27 Mar 2016 27
All 33 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

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

By volume in 2022-now: Augmented Reality Applications, Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research.

Augmented Reality Applic…1Augmented Reality Applications: 1 fractional worksLiquid Crystal Research …0Liquid Crystal Research Advancements: 0 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and…0Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 0 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV Research: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Optical Imaging Technologies: 0 fractional worksMobile Health and mHealt…0Mobile Health and mHealth Applications: 0 fractional worksHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility: 0 fractional worksOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes Research: 0 fractional worksQuality and Supply Management: 0 fractional worksQuality and Management Systems: 0 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionElectronic, Optical and Magnetic MaterialsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringEpidemiology4 others

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

  1. 1 Augmented Reality Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  2. 2 Liquid Crystal Research Advancements Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 0 works
  3. 3 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 0 works
  5. 5 Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies Media Technology 0 works
  6. 6 Mobile Health and mHealth Applications General Health Professions 0 works
  7. 7 Health Literacy and Information Accessibility General Health Professions 0 works
  8. 8 Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Quality and Supply Management Management Information Systems 0 works
  10. 10 Quality and Management Systems Strategy and Management 0 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 available22.3%not open77.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.1%domestic only83.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% 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 AlphaMicron (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2024.

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

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