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Life Lab

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Research works
25
▼ 54% vs 2018-21
Citations
97
3.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
Life Lab

Not ranked overall: Life Lab 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 Life Lab work in?

In all years, 38% of research at Life Lab is in Social Sciences, 31% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (32%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%), Medicine (14%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Social Sciences: 10 fractional works · 38.0% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 31.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 12.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 9.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 8.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 30.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 15.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 6.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAging: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 6.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 6.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 15.7% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 13.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 15.4% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 9.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKLife Lab25fractional works, all years
Life Sciences31%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences38%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology831.6%
    2. Social Sciences14.7%
    3. Decision Sciences00.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.5%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology415.5%
    2. Neuroscience26.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics12.6%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology01.4%
    1. Medicine313.6%
    2. Health Professions01.6%
    3. Nursing00.4%
    1. Computer Science29.7%
    2. Engineering13.2%
    3. Environmental Science01.4%
    4. Energy00.4%
    5. Materials Science00.4%
    6. Mathematics00.3%
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: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.26× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.22× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.63× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 30.11× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.07× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.81× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.12× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 2.67× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 30.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.11×1 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.26×1 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology3.22×0 works
  4. Psychology2.67×0 works
  5. Health Professions1.81×0 works
  6. Neuroscience1.63×0 works
  7. Medicine1.12×1 works
  8. Environmental Science1.07×0 works
  9. Social Sciences0.99×1 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.69×0 works
  11. Computer Science0.68×0 works
  12. Mathematics0.50×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.42×0 works
  14. Engineering0.29×0 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.26×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Life Lab?

Ranked on the quality score, Orin C. Davis and Jef J. J. van den Hout lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Life Lab.

  1. 1 Orin C. Davis United States · #1,440,753 worldwide 579 citations · 42 works
  2. 2 Jef J. J. van den Hout United States · #1,686,767 worldwide 227 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Life Lab

What are the most cited papers from Life Lab?

The most cited paper from Life Lab is "NCF1-339 polymorphism is associated with altered formation of neutrophil extracellular traps, high serum interferon activity and antiphospholipid syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus" (Petrus Linge, Sabine Arve-Butler, Lina M. Olsson et al., 2019), with 72 citations. Next come "Evolution of Robustness in Digital Organisms" (45) and "Rapid uptake of glucose and lactate, and not hypoxia, induces apoptosis in three-dimensional tumor tissue culture" (43).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 NCF1-339 polymorphism is associated with altered formation of neutrophil extracellular traps, high serum interferon activity and antiphospholipid syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus Petrus Linge, Sabine Arve-Butler, Lina M. Olsson et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 8 Nov 2019 72
2 Evolution of Robustness in Digital Organisms Jeffrey A. Edlund, Christoph Adami · Artificial Life Mar 2004 45
3 Rapid uptake of glucose and lactate, and not hypoxia, induces apoptosis in three-dimensional tumor tissue culture Rachel W. Kasinskas, Raja Venkatasubramanian, Neil S. Forbes · Integrative Biology Open access 2014 43
4 Canadian recommendations for laboratory interpretation of multiple or extensive drug resistance in clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa GJ German, Matthew W. Gilmour, Graham A. Tipples et al. · Canada Communicable Disease Report Open access 4 Jan 2018 33
5 Developing and Testing the Team Flow Monitor (TFM) Jef J. J. van den Hout, Josette M. P. Gevers, Orin C. Davis et al. · Cogent Psychology Open access 2019 28
All 63 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Life Lab?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Intrinsic Motivation, Flow Theory, Student Engagement, Neuroscience, Psychology, Education, Creativity and Innovation.

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

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Intrinsic Motivation3▲ 130×2 topics
  2. Flow Theory3▲ 3573×1 topic
  3. Student Engagement3▲ 46×1 topic
  4. Education2▲ 6.6×2 topics
  5. Neuroscience2▲ 28×3 topics
  6. Psychology2▲ 61×3 topics
  7. Creativity2▲ 143×1 topic
  8. Innovation2▲ 8.7×1 topic
  9. Shared Mental Models2▲ 500×1 topic
  10. Team Processes2▲ 500×1 topic
  11. Attention Lapses1▲ 709×1 topic
  12. Epidemiology1▲ 1.24×7 topics
  13. Mind Wandering1▲ 709×1 topic
  14. Deep Learning1▲ 2.3×3 topics
  15. Inflammation1▲ 2.0×5 topics
  16. Neural Networks1▲ 4.4×2 topics
  17. Backpropagation Learning1▲ 44×1 topic
  18. Self-Organizing Maps1▲ 44×1 topic

Which research topics does Life Lab publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Reproductive Biology and Fertility, Ocular Surface and Contact Lens, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms and Advanced Drug Delivery Systems.

Reproductive Biology and…0Reproductive Biology and Fertility: 0 fractional worksOcular Surface and Conta…0Ocular Surface and Contact Lens: 0 fractional worksGenetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Drug Delivery Systems: 0 fractional worksAdvancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery: 0 fractional worksMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies: 0 fractional worksMilitary Technology and Strategies: 0 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Ana…0Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 0 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 0 fractional worksBacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthAgingPharmaceutical ScienceMolecular Biology4 others

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

  1. 1 Reproductive Biology and Fertility Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  2. 2 Ocular Surface and Contact Lens Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  3. 3 Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms Aging 0 works
  4. 4 Advanced Drug Delivery Systems Pharmaceutical Science 0 works
  5. 5 Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery Pharmaceutical Science 0 works
  6. 6 Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies Molecular Biology 0 works
  7. 7 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 0 works
  9. 9 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing Clinical Biochemistry 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 available37.0%not open63.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.1%domestic only65.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Life Lab's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% 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 Life Lab as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Life Lab0.000041% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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