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Imagine Optic (France)

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Research works
112
▲ 74% vs 2018-21
Citations
818
7.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
29%
world 18%
Imagine Optic (France)

Not ranked overall: Imagine Optic (France) 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 Imagine Optic (France) work in?

In 2022-now, 83% of research at Imagine Optic (France) is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (39%), Physics and Astronomy (35%), Medicine (7%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 30 fractional works · 82.6% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 39.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 17.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 9.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 13 fractional works · 35.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 25.6% of its workRadiation: 2 fractional works · 6.0% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAcoustics and Ultrasonics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 7.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 6.4% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workALL ITS WORKImagine Optic(France)37fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences83%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences3%

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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1439.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1335.2%
    3. Computer Science25.9%
    4. Materials Science12.3%
    5. Chemistry00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology26.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.9%
    1. Medicine37.2%
    2. Nursing00.1%
    1. Decision Sciences12.7%
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: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.21× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemistry: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.76× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 2.60× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 15.80× its world share, 13 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNursingDecision Sciences: 2.83× its world share, 1 worksDecision Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 15.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy15.80×13 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.83×1 works
  3. Engineering2.60×14 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.21×2 works
  5. Computer Science0.76×2 works
  6. Materials Science0.65×1 works
  7. Medicine0.38×3 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.19×0 works
  9. Chemistry0.19×0 works
  10. Nursing0.17×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Imagine Optic (France)?

Ranked on the quality score, Nicolas Château, Marine Durand and Samuel Bucourt lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Imagine Optic (France).

  1. 1 Nicolas Château France · #3,046,944 worldwide 1.1k citations · 72 works
  2. 2 Marine Durand France · #3,259,668 worldwide 33 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Samuel Bucourt France · #4,055,058 worldwide 425 citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Rafael Porcar France · #4,815,482 worldwide 1 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Nicolas Lefaudeux France · #5,046,249 worldwide 107 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Guillaume Dovillaire France · #5,055,103 worldwide 1.1k citations · 95 works
  7. 7 Barbara Lamory France · #5,105,022 worldwide 155 citations · 37 works
  8. 8 Martin Piponnier France · #5,385,561 worldwide 89 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Ombeline de La Rochefoucauld France · #6,103,643 worldwide 510 citations · 47 works
  10. 10 Fabrice Harms France · #6,221,761 worldwide 913 citations · 87 works
All ranked researchers at Imagine Optic (France)

What are the most cited papers from Imagine Optic (France)?

The most cited paper from Imagine Optic (France) is "SR-Tesseler: a method to segment and quantify localization-based super-resolution microscopy data" (Florian Levet, Eric Hosy, Adel Kechkar et al., 2015), with 547 citations. Next come "Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation" (219) and "PSF shaping using adaptive optics for three-dimensional single-molecule super-resolution imaging and tracking" (171).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 SR-Tesseler: a method to segment and quantify localization-based super-resolution microscopy data Florian Levet, Eric Hosy, Adel Kechkar et al. · Nature Methods 7 Sep 2015 547
2 Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation D. Gauthier, Primož Rebernik Ribič, Ganesh Adhikary et al. · Nature Communications Open access 5 Apr 2017 219
3 PSF shaping using adaptive optics for three-dimensional single-molecule super-resolution imaging and tracking Ignacio Izeddin, Mohamed El Beheiry, Jordi Andilla et al. · Optics Express Open access 13 Feb 2012 171
4 Mapping the dynamics and nanoscale organization of synaptic adhesion proteins using monomeric streptavidin Ingrid Chamma, Mathieu Letellier, Corey Butler et al. · Nature Communications Open access 16 Mar 2016 168
5 Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid (POH) Integration Christian G. Koos et al. · Journal of Lightwave Technology Open access 11 Nov 2015 153
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Imagine Optic (France)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Adaptive Optics, Wavefront Sensing, Remote Sensing, Imaging, Laser, Semiconductor, Structured Light and Tomography.

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

All 29 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptive Optics7▲ 1533×1 topic
  2. Wavefront Sensing7▲ 1533×1 topic
  3. Remote Sensing5▲ 11×3 topics
  4. Imaging5▲ 52×3 topics
  5. Laser4▲ 650×1 topic
  6. Semiconductor4▲ 38×1 topic
  7. Structured Light2▲ 129×2 topics
  8. Tomography2▲ 35×2 topics
  9. Camera Calibration2▲ 199×1 topic
  10. Fringe Projection2▲ 199×1 topic
  11. Phase Retrieval2▲ 381×1 topic
  12. X-ray Imaging2▲ 169×1 topic
  13. Super-Resolution Imaging2▲ 167×2 topics
  14. Fluorescent Proteins2▲ 182×1 topic
  15. Image Processing2▲ 9.2×4 topics
  16. Single-Molecule Imaging2▲ 182×1 topic
  17. Deep Learning1◆ 1.13×4 topics
  18. Dimensional Metrology1▲ 193×1 topic
  19. Error Compensation1▲ 193×1 topic
  20. Biomedical Applications1▲ 3.0×4 topics
  21. Compound Eyes1▲ 436×1 topic
  22. Freeform Optics1▲ 436×1 topic
  23. Machine Vision1▲ 14×2 topics
  24. Nonlinear Optics1▲ 28×2 topics
  25. Bibliometric Analysis1▲ 49×1 topic
  26. Optical Coherence Tomography1▲ 27×3 topics
  27. Research Evaluation1▲ 112×1 topic
  28. Roughness Measurement1▲ 158×1 topic
  29. Surface Characterization1▲ 128×1 topic

Which research topics does Imagine Optic (France) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, Optical Systems and Laser Technology, Optical measurement and interference techniques and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques.

Adaptive optics and wave…7Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing: 7 fractional worksOptical Systems and Laser Technology: 4 fractional worksOptical measurement and interference techniques: 2 fractional worksAdvanced X-ray Imaging Techniques: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Fluorescence Mi…2Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques: 1 fractional worksAdvanced optical system design: 1 fractional worksSurface Roughness and Optical Measurements: 1 fractional worksscientometrics and bibliometrics research: 1 fractional worksLaser-Matter Interactions and Applications: 1 fractional works
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionRadiation5 others

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

  1. 1 Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 7 works
  2. 2 Optical Systems and Laser Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  3. 3 Optical measurement and interference techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  4. 4 Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques Radiation 2 works
  5. 5 Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques Biophysics 2 works
  6. 6 Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Advanced optical system design Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements Computational Mechanics 1 works
  9. 9 scientometrics and bibliometrics research Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 1 works
  10. 10 Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 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 available25.9%not open74.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.8%domestic only71.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Imagine Optic (France)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 74% 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 Imagine Optic (France) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Imagine Optic (France) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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