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Nonprofit · Santa Cruz · United States

Life Lab

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Research works
25
▲ 132% vs 2013–17
Citations
97
3.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
37%
world 28%

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.

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: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.07× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.04× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.85× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.33× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 2.26× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.98× its world share, 1 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 0.86× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 2.72× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.24× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

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 2022–2025: Reproductive Biology and Fertility, Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.

Reproductive Biology and…0Reproductive Biology and Fertility: 0 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Ana…0Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 0 fractional worksHealth, Environment, Cognitive Aging: 0 fractional worksMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies: 0 fractional worksBacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing: 0 fractional worksMilitary Technology and Strategies: 0 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 0 fractional worksGenetics, Aging, and Lon…0Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms: 0 fractional worksNeonatal and Maternal Infections: 0 fractional worksMind wandering and attention: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthTransportationHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisMolecular Biology5 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 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 0 works
  3. 3 Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  4. 4 Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies Molecular Biology 0 works
  5. 5 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing Clinical Biochemistry 0 works
  6. 6 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  8. 8 Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms Aging 0 works
  9. 9 Neonatal and Maternal Infections Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  10. 10 Mind wandering and attention Cognitive Neuroscience 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Life Lab's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 132% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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