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BrightSpec

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Research works
30
▲ 76% vs 2018-21
Citations
152
5.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
76%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
BrightSpec

Not ranked overall: BrightSpec 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 BrightSpec work in?

In all years, 75% of research at BrightSpec is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Chemistry (51%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Physics and Astronomy (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 23 fractional works · 75.1% of its workChemistry: 15 fractional works · 50.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 14 fractional works · 45.6% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 8.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 6.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 7.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 19.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 12.1% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 6.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBrightSpec30fractional works, all years
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences75%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences1%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Chemistry1550.9%
    2. Physics and Astronomy38.7%
    3. Engineering27.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.4%
    5. Environmental Science11.7%
    6. Chemical Engineering01.1%
    7. Computer Science01.1%
    8. Materials Science00.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences412.1%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics13.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.6%
    5. Neuroscience00.3%
    1. Medicine13.8%
    2. Nursing00.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting00.7%
    2. Psychology00.2%
    3. Social Sciences00.2%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4.18× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.90× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 16.22× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 5.19× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 27.53× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.26× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 3.07× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.74× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemistry, 27.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemistry27.53×8 works
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics16.22×1 works
  3. Chemical Engineering5.19×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.18×4 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy3.07×1 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.26×0 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.90×0 works
  8. Nursing0.74×0 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.66×1 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.38×0 works
  11. Medicine0.32×1 works
  12. Neuroscience0.28×0 works
  13. Materials Science0.26×0 works
  14. Environmental Science0.24×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.23×0 works
  16. Engineering0.22×1 works
  17. Psychology0.10×0 works
  18. Social Sciences0.02×0 works

What are the most cited papers from BrightSpec?

The most cited paper from BrightSpec is "Impacts of food contact chemicals on human health: a consensus statement" (Jane Muncke et al., 2020), with 265 citations. Next come "Copper-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrodeuteration of Aryl Alkenes with Quantitative Isotopomer Purity Analysis by Molecular Rotational Resonance Spectroscopy" (64) and "Enantioselective Synthesis of Enantioisotopomers with Quantitative Chiral Analysis by Chiral Tag Rotational Spectroscopy" (48).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Impacts of food contact chemicals on human health: a consensus statement Jane Muncke et al. · Environmental Health Open access 2 Mar 2020 265
2 Copper-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrodeuteration of Aryl Alkenes with Quantitative Isotopomer Purity Analysis by Molecular Rotational Resonance Spectroscopy Zoua Pa Vang, Albert Reyes, Reilly E. Sonstrom et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society 17 May 2021 64
3 Enantioselective Synthesis of Enantioisotopomers with Quantitative Chiral Analysis by Chiral Tag Rotational Spectroscopy Mitchell D. Mills, Reilly E. Sonstrom, Zoua Pa Vang et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition Open access 14 Jun 2022 48
4 Chiral analysis of pantolactone with molecular rotational resonance spectroscopy Reilly E. Sonstrom, Justin L. Neill, Aleksandr V. Mikhonin et al. · Chirality 26 Oct 2021 32
5 Rapid quantification of isomeric and dehalogenated impurities in pharmaceutical raw materials using MRR spectroscopy Justin L. Neill, Aleksandr V. Mikhonin, Ted Chen et al. · Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 17 Jul 2020 30
All 53 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at BrightSpec?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Molecular Structure, Rotational Spectroscopy, Density Functional Theory, Breath Analysis, Chiral Separation, Liquid Chromatography, Spectroscopic Databases and Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 25 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Structure5▲ 140×1 topic
  2. Rotational Spectroscopy5▲ 693×1 topic
  3. Density Functional Theory4▲ 45×2 topics
  4. Breath Analysis3▲ 77×2 topics
  5. Chiral Separation3▲ 78×1 topic
  6. Liquid Chromatography3▲ 64×1 topic
  7. Natural Products3▲ 51×2 topics
  8. Spectroscopic Databases3▲ 156×1 topic
  9. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers3▲ 156×1 topic
  10. Absolute Configuration2▲ 198×1 topic
  11. Chiroptical Spectroscopy2▲ 198×1 topic
  12. Machine Learning2▲ 3.3×5 topics
  13. Catalysis2▲ 6.7×4 topics
  14. Deep Learning2▲ 2.6×3 topics
  15. Ab Initio Parametrization1▲ 36×1 topic
  16. Dispersion Correction1▲ 36×1 topic
  17. Image Processing1▲ 14×2 topics
  18. Drug Discovery1▲ 9.7×2 topics
  19. Wireless Sensor Networks1▲ 10×2 topics
  20. Medicinal Chemistry1▲ 9.5×2 topics
  21. Sustainability1▲ 2.1×2 topics
  22. Ozone Depletion1▲ 59×1 topic
  23. Plant Disease Detection1▲ 92×1 topic
  24. Smart Farming1▲ 84×1 topic
  25. Stratospheric Water Vapor1▲ 59×1 topic

Which research topics does BrightSpec publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure, Molecular spectroscopy and chirality, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography and Smart Agriculture and AI.

Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure: 2 fractional worksMolecular spectroscopy and chirality: 2 fractional worksAnalytical Chemistry and Chromatography: 2 fractional worksSmart Agriculture and AI: 1 fractional worksChemical Reactions and Isotopes: 1 fractional worksAgricultural Economics a…1Agricultural Economics and Policy: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Chemical Physics Studies: 1 fractional worksSpectroscopy and Laser Applications: 1 fractional worksMass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications: 1 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 0 fractional works
SpectroscopyPlant SciencePharmaceutical ScienceGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences2 others

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

  1. 1 Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure Spectroscopy 2 works
  2. 2 Molecular spectroscopy and chirality Spectroscopy 2 works
  3. 3 Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography Spectroscopy 2 works
  4. 4 Smart Agriculture and AI Plant Science 1 works
  5. 5 Chemical Reactions and Isotopes Pharmaceutical Science 1 works
  6. 6 Agricultural Economics and Policy General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 works
  7. 7 Advanced Chemical Physics Studies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  8. 8 Spectroscopy and Laser Applications Spectroscopy 1 works
  9. 9 Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications Spectroscopy 1 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 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 available75.7%not open24.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.6%domestic only69.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has BrightSpec's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 76% 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 BrightSpec as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000060% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%BrightSpec0.000054% in 20252020

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

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