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OpGen (United States)

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Research works
22
▼ 57% vs 2018-21
Citations
876
39.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
55%
world 40%
International
33%
world 18%
OpGen (United States)

Not ranked overall: OpGen (United States) 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 OpGen (United States) work in?

In all years, 55% of research at OpGen (United States) is in Life Sciences, 26% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (39%), Medicine (26%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 12 fractional works · 54.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 39.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 17.3% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 2 fractional works · 8.4% of its workMolecular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 9.1% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 26.2% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 26.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 14.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workALL ITS WORKOpGen (UnitedStates)22fractional works, all years
Life Sciences55%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences26%Social Sciences5%

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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology939.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences29.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology14.8%
    4. Neuroscience01.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.9%
    1. Medicine626.0%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Environmental Science15.9%
    2. Engineering15.1%
    3. Materials Science01.5%
    4. Mathematics01.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    1. Social Sciences02.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting01.1%
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: 2.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.96× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.74× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 13.77× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 4.12× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.18× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 1.94× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 2.97× its world share, 0 worksNursing1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 13.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics13.77×0 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.96×1 works
  3. Mathematics4.12×0 works
  4. Neuroscience3.74×0 works
  5. Nursing2.97×0 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy2.18×0 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.04×0 works
  8. Medicine1.94×1 works
  9. Environmental Science0.49×0 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.48×0 works
  11. Engineering0.10×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, Trevor K. Wagner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is OpGen (United States).

  1. 1 Trevor K. Wagner United States · #4,503,834 worldwide 197 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at OpGen (United States)

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

The most cited paper from OpGen (United States) is "The MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC)-II study of common practices for the development and validation of microarray-based predictive models" (Leming M. Shi et al., 2010), with 922 citations. Next come "Prospective Genomic Characterization of the German Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 Outbreak by Rapid Next Generation Sequencing Technology" (775) and "Sequencing and automated whole-genome optical mapping of the genome of a domestic goat (Capra hircus)" (550).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC)-II study of common practices for the development and validation of microarray-based predictive models Leming M. Shi et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access201 authors 30 Jul 2010 922
2 Prospective Genomic Characterization of the German Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 Outbreak by Rapid Next Generation Sequencing Technology Alexander Mellmann, Dag Harmsen, Craig A. Cummings et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 20 Jul 2011 775
3 Sequencing and automated whole-genome optical mapping of the genome of a domestic goat (Capra hircus) Yang Dong et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 23 Dec 2012 550
4 Large Chromosomal Rearrangements during a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli Colin Raeside, Joël Gaffé, Daniel E. Deatherage et al. · mBio Open access 9 Sep 2014 163
5 Transgenic American chestnuts show enhanced blight resistance and transmit the trait to T1 progeny Andrew E. Newhouse, Linda D. Polin‐McGuigan, Kathleen A. Baier et al. · Plant Science 13 Apr 2014 138
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at OpGen (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Antibiotic Resistance, Bacteremia, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry, Microorganism Identification, Antimicrobial Resistance, ESKAPE Pathogens and Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria.

▲ 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. Epidemiology5▲ 5.4×23 topics
  2. Antibiotic Resistance2▲ 25×6 topics
  3. Bacteremia2▲ 130×2 topics
  4. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry2▲ 285×1 topic
  5. Microorganism Identification2▲ 285×1 topic
  6. Antimicrobial Resistance2▲ 31×5 topics
  7. ESKAPE Pathogens1▲ 121×1 topic
  8. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria1▲ 121×1 topic
  9. Public Health1▲ 4.4×4 topics
  10. Treatment1▲ 4.5×8 topics
  11. Pathogenicity1▲ 59×3 topics
  12. Virulence Factors1▲ 28×4 topics
  13. Biosensors1▲ 7.9×2 topics
  14. Diagnosis1▲ 4.5×6 topics
  15. Genome Sequencing1▲ 26×3 topics
  16. Immune Response1▲ 7.4×6 topics
  17. Infection1▲ 16×3 topics
  18. Phylogenetic Analysis1▲ 12×4 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.

Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 0 fractional worksGenetic Neurodegenerative Diseases: 0 fractional worksFlowering Plant Growth a…0Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation: 0 fractional worksAntibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: 0 fractional worksMultiple Myeloma Research and Treatments: 0 fractional worksAdvances in Oncology and Radiotherapy: 0 fractional worksPneumonia and Respiratory Infections: 0 fractional worksPneumocystis jirovecii p…0Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment: 0 fractional worksStatistical Methods in Clinical Trials: 0 fractional worksProstate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional works
RadiationCellular and Molecular NeurosciencePlant ScienceMolecular Medicine5 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 0 works
  2. 2 Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 0 works
  3. 3 Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation Plant Science 0 works
  4. 4 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 0 works
  5. 5 Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments Hematology 0 works
  6. 6 Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  7. 7 Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections Epidemiology 0 works
  8. 8 Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment Epidemiology 0 works
  9. 9 Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials Statistics and Probability 0 works
  10. 10 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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 available55.4%not open44.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.8%domestic only67.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 57% 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 OpGen (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%OpGen (United States)0.0000085% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of OpGen (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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