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Opotek (United States)

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Research works
9
▼ 33% vs 2018-21
Citations
39
4.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
25%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Opotek (United States)

Not ranked overall: Opotek (United States) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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

In all years, 56% of research at Opotek (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 26% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Chemistry (24%), Engineering (16%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%).

Physical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 56.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 24.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 15.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 15.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 25.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 15.1% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workALL ITS WORKOpotek (UnitedStates)9fractional works, all years
Life Sciences26%Physical Sciences56%Health Sciences13%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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Chemistry224.3%
    2. Engineering115.9%
    3. Environmental Science16.2%
    4. Computer Science03.5%
    5. Physics and Astronomy03.5%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences03.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology115.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences03.5%
    3. Neuroscience03.5%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics03.5%
    1. Medicine18.3%
    2. Health Professions04.5%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting01.8%
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.

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

Ranked on the quality score, Lam K. Nguyen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Opotek (United States).

  1. 1 Lam K. Nguyen United States · #4,193,681 worldwide 49 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Opotek (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Opotek (United States) is "Electrospray-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (ELDI-MS) with an infrared laser for characterizing peptides and proteins" (Ivory X. Peng, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, Eli Margalith et al., 2010), with 46 citations. Next come "Learning Named Entity Tagger using Domain-Specific Dictionary" (9) and "Kerogen Maturation Effects on Pore Morphology and Enhanced Shale Oil Recovery" (9).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electrospray-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (ELDI-MS) with an infrared laser for characterizing peptides and proteins Ivory X. Peng, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, Eli Margalith et al. · The Analyst Open access 2010 46
2 Learning Named Entity Tagger using Domain-Specific Dictionary Jingbo Shang, Liyuan Liu, Xiang Ren et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 10 Sep 2018 9
3 Kerogen Maturation Effects on Pore Morphology and Enhanced Shale Oil Recovery Khoa Bui, I. Yücel Akkutlu, Andrei S. Zelenev et al. Conference paper 11 Apr 2018 9
4 Near infrared spectral imaging of explosives using a tunable laser source Eli Margalith, Lam K. Nguyen, Gregory L. Klunder · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 19 Apr 2010 6
5 Mining the Information Content Buried in Infrared and Near-Infrared Band Shapes by Temporal, Spatial, and other Perturbations Curtis A. Marcott, Gloria M. Story, Anthony E. Dowrey et al. · Applied Spectroscopy Dec 2009 6
All 18 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

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

By volume in 2022-now: Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes, Air Traffic Management and Optimization, Vehicle emissions and performance and Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research.

Pharmaceutical Practices…0Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes: 0 fractional worksAir Traffic Management and Optimization: 0 fractional worksVehicle emissions and performance: 0 fractional works
Geriatrics and GerontologyAerospace EngineeringAutomotive Engineering

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

  1. 1 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes Geriatrics and Gerontology 0 works
  2. 2 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research Cell Biology 0 works
  5. 5 Fibroblast Growth Factor Research Molecular Biology 0 works
  6. 6 Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments Physiology 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 available25.4%not open74.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.9%domestic only87.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% 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 Opotek (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000048% in 2022.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Opotek (United States)0.0000031% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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