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Lickenbrock

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Research works
91
▼ 76% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2k
13.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Lickenbrock

Not ranked overall: Lickenbrock 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 Lickenbrock work in?

In all years, 70% of research at Lickenbrock is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (50%), Engineering (11%), Medicine (11%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 63 fractional works · 69.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 46 fractional works · 50.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 33 fractional works · 36.5% of its workInstrumentation: 8 fractional works · 8.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 10.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 3.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 15.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 6.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 11.1% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 10.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKLickenbrock91fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences70%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences15%

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. Physics and Astronomy4650.4%
    2. Engineering1010.5%
    3. Computer Science33.8%
    4. Mathematics11.3%
    5. Chemistry11.2%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.2%
    7. Materials Science11.0%
    8. Environmental Science00.4%
    1. Social Sciences77.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities66.2%
    3. Psychology11.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    1. Medicine1010.5%
    2. Health Professions10.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.6%
    3. Neuroscience10.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Lickenbrock specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Astronomy and Astrophysics takes 47.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 33.2 works48×
  2. Physics and AstronomyField · 45.8 works13×
← 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: 6.47× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 6.32× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.11× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMathematics: 0.75× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 7.27× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 3.55× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 3.36× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy7.27×0 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.47×0 works
  3. Neuroscience6.32×0 works
  4. Arts and Humanities3.55×0 works
  5. Psychology3.36×0 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.11×0 works
  7. Mathematics0.75×0 works
  8. Medicine0.64×0 works
  9. Engineering0.39×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Lickenbrock?

Ranked on the quality score, E. S. Holden, James Edward Keeler and Robert Julius Trumpler lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Lickenbrock.

  1. 1 E. S. Holden United States · #1,937,389 worldwide 132 citations · 57 works
  2. 2 James Edward Keeler United States · #2,133,722 worldwide 180 citations · 135 works
  3. 3 Robert Julius Trumpler United States · #2,607,798 worldwide 1k citations · 101 works
  4. 4 Robert Grant Aitken United States · #2,612,354 worldwide 820 citations · 423 works
  5. 5 Carlene U. Murphy United States · #3,496,142 worldwide 238 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Sean Larkin United States · #4,381,358 worldwide 95 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Richard Hawley Tucker United States · #5,205,064 worldwide 209 citations · 242 works
All ranked researchers at Lickenbrock

What are the most cited papers from Lickenbrock?

The most cited paper from Lickenbrock is "Gamma-Ray Bursts in theSwiftEra" (Neil Gehrels, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, DEREK B. FOX, 2009), with 612 citations. Next come "On the Origin of Globular Clusters in Elliptical and cD Galaxies" (408) and "Do Pulsars Make Supernovae?" (218).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Gamma-Ray Bursts in theSwiftEra Neil Gehrels, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, DEREK B. FOX · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics ReviewOpen access 20 Aug 2009 612
2 On the Origin of Globular Clusters in Elliptical and cD Galaxies Duncan A. Forbes, Jean P. Brodie, Carl J. Grillmair · The Astronomical Journal Open access May 1997 408
3 Do Pulsars Make Supernovae? Jeremiah P. Ostriker, James E. Gunn · The Astrophysical Journal Mar 1971 218
4 THE LICK AGN MONITORING PROJECT 2011: SPECTROSCOPIC CAMPAIGN AND EMISSION-LINE LIGHT CURVES Aaron J. Barth et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access 15 Apr 2015 203
5 THE LICK AGN MONITORING PROJECT 2011: Fe II REVERBERATION FROM THE OUTER BROAD-LINE REGION Aaron J. Barth et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 14 May 2013 156
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Lickenbrock?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: High-Resolution Imaging, Spectroscopy, Radio Astronomy, Solar Observations, Transits of Venus, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation.

▲ 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 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. High-Resolution Imaging11▲ 193×2 topics
  2. Spectroscopy11▲ 36×4 topics
  3. Radio Astronomy10▲ 307×2 topics
  4. Solar Observations10▲ 570×1 topic
  5. Transits of Venus10▲ 570×1 topic
  6. Exoplanets9▲ 139×1 topic
  7. Stellar Astrophysics9▲ 139×1 topic
  8. Astronomical Instrumentation8▲ 162×1 topic
  9. Spectrograph8▲ 162×1 topic
  10. Star Formation7▲ 85×2 topics
  11. Black Holes5▲ 40×2 topics
  12. Cosmology5▲ 57×2 topics
  13. Dark Matter5▲ 28×2 topics
  14. Galaxies5▲ 114×1 topic
  15. Stellar Populations5▲ 114×1 topic
  16. Magnetic Fields4▲ 38×3 topics
  17. History4▲ 4.8×5 topics
  18. Accretion Disks3▲ 45×2 topics
  19. Culture3▲ 6.0×2 topics
  20. Nucleosynthesis3▲ 29×3 topics
  21. Society3▲ 13×2 topics
  22. Molecular Clouds3▲ 59×1 topic
  23. Protoplanetary Disks3▲ 59×1 topic
  24. Supernovae2▲ 26×2 topics
  25. Gravitational Waves2▲ 39×2 topics
  26. Medicine2▲ 27×2 topics
  27. Science2▲ 14×2 topics
  28. Glaucoma2▲ 15×2 topics
  29. Macular Degeneration2▲ 19×3 topics
  30. Optic Nerve2▲ 24×2 topics
  31. Diabetic Retinopathy2▲ 27×2 topics
  32. STEM Education2▲ 7.9×2 topics
  33. Technology2▲ 5.1×1 topic
  34. Gamma-Ray Bursts2▲ 61×1 topic
  35. Neutron Stars2▲ 61×1 topic
  36. Structural Health Monitoring2▲ 20×2 topics
  37. Optical 3D Laser Measurement2▲ 102×1 topic
  38. Position-Sensitive Detector2▲ 102×1 topic
  39. Adaptive Optics2▲ 95×1 topic
  40. Wavefront Sensing2▲ 95×1 topic

Which research topics does Lickenbrock publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Phytase and its Applications, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Diverse Music Education Insights and Music Therapy and Health.

Phytase and its Applicat…0Phytase and its Applications: 0 fractional worksNeuroscience and Music P…0Neuroscience and Music Perception: 0 fractional worksDiverse Music Education …0Diverse Music Education Insights: 0 fractional worksMusic Therapy and Health0Music Therapy and Health: 0 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 0 fractional worksAdaptive optics and wavefront sensing: 0 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 0 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysical Research: 0 fractional worksCardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications: 0 fractional worksTrauma Management and Diagnosis: 0 fractional works
Plant ScienceCognitive NeuroscienceMusicSocial Psychology6 others

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

  1. 1 Phytase and its Applications Plant Science 0 works
  2. 2 Neuroscience and Music Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  3. 3 Diverse Music Education Insights Music 0 works
  4. 4 Music Therapy and Health Social Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 0 works
  6. 6 Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  7. 7 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  8. 8 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 0 works
  9. 9 Cardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  10. 10 Trauma Management and Diagnosis Surgery 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 available36.4%not open63.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.5%domestic only79.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Lickenbrock's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 76% lower 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 Lickenbrock as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000012% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Lickenbrock0.0000020% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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