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Muons (United States)

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World rank, all time
#34,285
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#7,196
of 7,310
Research works
128
▼ 62% vs 2018-21
Citations
548
4.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.03×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
61%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
Muons (United States)

Which fields of science does Muons (United States) work in?

In all years, 94% of research at Muons (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (64%), Physics and Astronomy (22%), Materials Science (4%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 120 fractional works · 93.7% of its workEngineering: 81 fractional works · 63.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 31 fractional works · 24.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 25 fractional works · 19.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 10 fractional works · 7.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 7.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 29 fractional works · 22.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 12 fractional works · 9.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 7.3% of its workRadiation: 4 fractional works · 3.4% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStructural Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMuons (UnitedStates)128fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences94%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences3%

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. Engineering8163.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy2922.3%
    3. Materials Science54.2%
    4. Chemistry21.4%
    5. Computer Science11.0%
    6. Chemical Engineering10.6%
    7. Environmental Science10.5%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Medicine32.2%
    2. Health Professions10.7%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting10.8%
    2. Social Sciences10.7%
    3. Decision Sciences10.6%
    4. Arts and Humanities10.5%
    5. Psychology00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.0%
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.

Chemistry: 4.01× its world share, 1 worksChemistryEngineering: 4.11× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringPhysics and Astronomy: 14.09× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMedicinePsychology: 0.07× 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: Physics and Astronomy, 14.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy14.09×3 works
  2. Engineering4.11×6 works
  3. Chemistry4.01×1 works
  4. Psychology0.07×0 works
  5. Social Sciences0.02×0 works
  6. Medicine0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Muons (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, R. P. Johnson, R. Abrams and Michael Neubauer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Muons (United States).

  1. 1 R. P. Johnson United States · #2,928,218 worldwide 20k citations · 953 works
  2. 2 R. Abrams United States · #4,488,088 worldwide 1.2k citations · 118 works
  3. 3 Michael Neubauer United States · #5,471,471 worldwide 108 citations · 45 works
  4. 4 Mary Anne Cummings United States · #5,859,646 worldwide 247 citations · 62 works
  5. 5 Alan Dudas United States · #6,253,530 worldwide 327 citations · 64 works
  6. 6 Vadim G. Dudnikov United States · #7,406,827 worldwide 1.2k citations · 229 works
All ranked researchers at Muons (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Muons (United States)?

The most cited paper from Muons (United States) is "Recent progress in neutrino factory and muon collider research within the Muon Collaboration" (Mohammad M. Alsharo’a et al., 2003), with 183 citations. Next come "Quench detection for high temperature superconductor magnets: a novel technique based on Rayleigh-backscattering interrogated optical fibers" (152) and "Experimental Limit on Optical-Photon Coupling to Light Neutral Scalar Bosons" (117).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Recent progress in neutrino factory and muon collider research within the Muon Collaboration Mohammad M. Alsharo’a et al. · Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams Open access177 authors 14 Aug 2003 183
2 Quench detection for high temperature superconductor magnets: a novel technique based on Rayleigh-backscattering interrogated optical fibers Federico Scurti, Sasha A. Ishmael, G. Flanagan et al. · Superconductor Science and Technology Open access 21 Jan 2016 152
3 Experimental Limit on Optical-Photon Coupling to Light Neutral Scalar Bosons Andrei V. Afanasev, O. K. Baker, K. Beard et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 15 Sep 2008 117
4 Accelerator design concept for future neutrino facilities The ISS Accelerator Working Group et al. · Journal of Instrumentation Open access 2 Jul 2009 77
5 The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment Mariyan Bogomilov et al. · Journal of Instrumentation Open access188 authors 23 May 2012 71
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Muons (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Negative Ion Sources, Superconducting Cavities, Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry, Nanostructures, Semiconductors, Spectroscopy and Defect Identification.

▲ 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. Negative Ion Sources26▲ 450×1 topic
  2. Superconducting Cavities26▲ 450×1 topic
  3. Plasma Etching11▲ 183×1 topic
  4. Semiconductor Industry11▲ 183×1 topic
  5. Nanostructures10▲ 16×4 topics
  6. Semiconductors10▲ 29×3 topics
  7. Spectroscopy9▲ 22×3 topics
  8. Defect Identification9▲ 486×1 topic
  9. Positron Annihilation9▲ 486×1 topic
  10. Critical Current Density8▲ 112×2 topics
  11. Nb3Sn Conductor8▲ 148×1 topic
  12. Superconducting Magnets8▲ 148×1 topic
  13. Free-Electron Lasers7▲ 207×1 topic
  14. X-Ray7▲ 207×1 topic
  15. High Power Terahertz Sources5▲ 143×1 topic
  16. Vacuum Electronics5▲ 143×1 topic
  17. Tokamak5▲ 82×1 topic
  18. Turbulence5▲ 25×1 topic
  19. CMOS Technology4▲ 25×4 topics
  20. Molten Salt3▲ 58×1 topic
  21. Nuclear Reactor3▲ 58×1 topic
  22. Tomography3▲ 9.8×3 topics
  23. X-ray Imaging3▲ 46×2 topics
  24. DNA Strand Breaks3▲ 36×1 topic
  25. Low-Energy Electrons3▲ 36×1 topic
  26. Neutrino Flavor Transformation3▲ 93×1 topic
  27. Neutrino Oscillations3▲ 93×1 topic
  28. Neutron Imaging3▲ 26×1 topic
  29. Small-Angle Scattering3▲ 16×1 topic
  30. Photon Counting2▲ 27×2 topics
  31. Particle Detectors2▲ 69×1 topic
  32. Silicon Detectors2▲ 69×1 topic
  33. Pulsed Power2▲ 72×2 topics
  34. Electron Beam2▲ 159×1 topic
  35. High Current2▲ 159×1 topic
  36. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy2▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Accident Tolerant Fuels2▲ 24×1 topic
  38. Coatings2▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Fuel Cladding2▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Metamodeling2▲ 25×2 topics

Which research topics does Muons (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Particle accelerators and beam dynamics, Plasma Diagnostics and Applications, Magnetic confinement fusion research and Atomic and Molecular Physics.

Particle accelerators an…4Particle accelerators and beam dynamics: 4 fractional worksPlasma Diagnostics and Applications: 2 fractional worksMagnetic confinement fus…2Magnetic confinement fusion research: 2 fractional worksAtomic and Molecular Phy…1Atomic and Molecular Physics: 1 fractional worksGyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research: 1 fractional worksMass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications: 1 fractional worksMuon and positron interactions and applications: 0 fractional worksParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers: 0 fractional worksSuperconducting Materials and Applications: 0 fractional worksPulsed Power Technology Applications: 0 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringNuclear and High Energy PhysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4 others

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

  1. 1 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Aerospace Engineering 4 works
  2. 2 Plasma Diagnostics and Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  3. 3 Magnetic confinement fusion research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 2 works
  4. 4 Atomic and Molecular Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  5. 5 Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  6. 6 Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications Spectroscopy 1 works
  7. 7 Muon and positron interactions and applications Mechanics of Materials 0 works
  8. 8 Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Superconducting Materials and Applications Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Pulsed Power Technology Applications Control and Systems Engineering 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 available60.7%not open39.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.6%domestic only89.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Muons (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% lower 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 Muons (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000032% in 2024.

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