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Aster

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Research works
62
▲ 97% vs 2018-21
Citations
239
3.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
50%
world 40%
International
46%
world 18%
Aster

Not ranked overall: Aster 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 Aster work in?

In 2022-now, 67% of research at Aster is in Health Sciences, 14% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (62%), Engineering (11%), Social Sciences (5%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 15 fractional works · 66.6% of its workMedicine: 14 fractional works · 62.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 11.4% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 10.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 14.1% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 11.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 8.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKAster22fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences67%Social Sciences8%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1462.3%
    2. Health Professions14.4%
    1. Engineering311.5%
    2. Computer Science01.5%
    3. Environmental Science01.1%
    4. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.7%
    2. Neuroscience13.3%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.9%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology01.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.5%
    1. Social Sciences14.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities13.0%
    3. Psychology00.4%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.70× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.74× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.01× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.48× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.77× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.66× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.24× its world share, 14 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.24×14 works
  2. Neuroscience2.01×1 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology1.74×0 works
  4. Health Professions1.66×1 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.48×0 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.03×1 works
  7. Engineering0.77×3 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.70×1 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.39×0 works
  10. Social Sciences0.38×1 works
  11. Environmental Science0.22×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.19×0 works
  13. Psychology0.13×0 works
  14. Mathematics0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Aster?

Ranked on the quality score, Guido Bolliger, Yvonne Le Roux and Lucio Tirone lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Aster.

  1. 1 Guido Bolliger Italy · #2,546,322 worldwide 259 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Yvonne Le Roux Italy · #3,030,959 worldwide 544 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Lucio Tirone Italy · #4,453,787 worldwide 34 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Vivek Mundada Italy · #5,609,290 worldwide 86 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Aster

What are the most cited papers from Aster?

The most cited paper from Aster is "Single-Dose Clinical Pharmacokinetic Studies of Gefitinib" (Helen Swaisland, Robert P. Smith, Alison Laight et al., 2005), with 144 citations. Next come "Looking forward to interacting with their caretakers: dolphins’ anticipatory behaviour indicates motivation to participate in specific events" (81) and "Low carbon heating and cooling by combining various technologies with Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage" (73).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Single-Dose Clinical Pharmacokinetic Studies of Gefitinib Helen Swaisland, Robert P. Smith, Alison Laight et al. · Clinical Pharmacokinetics 2005 144
2 Looking forward to interacting with their caretakers: dolphins’ anticipatory behaviour indicates motivation to participate in specific events Isabella L. K. Clegg, Heiko G. Rödel, Xavier Boivin et al. · Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2 Feb 2018 81
3 Low carbon heating and cooling by combining various technologies with Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage Marco Pellegrini, Martin Bloemendal, Nanne K. Hoekstra et al. · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 15 Jan 2019 73
4 Who are the Best? Local Versus Foreign Analysts on Latin American Stock Markets Jean-François Bacmann, Guido Bolliger · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2001 50
5 Semi-automatic index tuning Karl Schnaitter, Neoklis Polyzotis · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2012 41
All 71 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Aster?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Atherosclerosis, Diagnosis, Myocardial Infarction, Coronary Stents, Myocardial Revascularization, Management and Risk Factors.

▲ 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 8 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 8 words, with their numbers
  1. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention2▲ 52×3 topics
  2. Atherosclerosis1▲ 22×4 topics
  3. Diagnosis1▲ 6.6×5 topics
  4. Myocardial Infarction1▲ 22×5 topics
  5. Coronary Stents1▲ 112×1 topic
  6. Management1▲ 6.1×4 topics
  7. Myocardial Revascularization1▲ 112×1 topic
  8. Risk Factors1▲ 4.3×6 topics

Which research topics does Aster publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics.

Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksRespiratory Support and Mechanisms: 1 fractional worksHydraulic and Pneumatic …1Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems: 1 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diag…1Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 1 fractional worksCardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques: 0 fractional worksEctopic Pregnancy Diagno…0Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management: 0 fractional worksNeurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research: 0 fractional worksTuberous Sclerosis Complex Research: 0 fractional worksByzantine Studies and History: 0 fractional works
SurgeryPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMechanical EngineeringRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging5 others

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

  1. 1 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 1 works
  2. 2 Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  3. 3 Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  5. 5 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 1 works
  6. 6 Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques Surgery 0 works
  7. 7 Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  8. 8 Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research Genetics 0 works
  9. 9 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Physiology 0 works
  10. 10 Byzantine Studies and History Classics 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 available49.8%not open50.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors46.2%domestic only53.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Aster's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 97% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Aster as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Aster0.000043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Aster over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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