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OptoSci (United Kingdom)

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Research works
17
▲ 470% vs 2018-21
Citations
501
28.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
OptoSci (United Kingdom)

Not ranked overall: OptoSci (United Kingdom) 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 OptoSci (United Kingdom) work in?

In all years, 91% of research at OptoSci (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (55%), Chemistry (18%), Environmental Science (7%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 90.6% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 55.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 43.8% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 18.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 16.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 7.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBioengineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workALL ITS WORKOptoSci (UnitedKingdom)17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences1%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1055.3%
    2. Chemistry318.2%
    3. Environmental Science17.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy02.9%
    6. Chemical Engineering01.0%
    7. Computer Science01.0%
    8. Materials Science01.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.9%
    1. Dentistry01.0%
    2. Health Professions00.5%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
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.

What are the most cited papers from OptoSci (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from OptoSci (United Kingdom) is "Update On Oral Lichen Planus: Etiopathogenesis and Management" (C Scully, M. Beyli, Miguel Castro Ferreiro et al., 1998), with 572 citations. Next come "Tunable Diode-Laser Spectroscopy With Wavelength Modulation: A Calibration-Free Approach to the Recovery of Absolute Gas Absorption Line Shapes" (142) and "Fibre optic techniques for remote spectroscopic methane detection—from concept to system realisation" (121).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Update On Oral Lichen Planus: Etiopathogenesis and Management C Scully, M. Beyli, Miguel Castro Ferreiro et al. · Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine 1998 572
2 Tunable Diode-Laser Spectroscopy With Wavelength Modulation: A Calibration-Free Approach to the Recovery of Absolute Gas Absorption Line Shapes Kevin L. Duffin, Andrew James McGettrick, Walter Johnstone et al. · Journal of Lightwave Technology Oct 2007 142
3 Fibre optic techniques for remote spectroscopic methane detection—from concept to system realisation Brian Culshaw, George A. Stewart, Fengzhong Dong et al. · Sensors and Actuators B Chemical Aug 1998 121
4 Design of a fibre optic multi-point sensor for gas detection George A. Stewart, Chris Tandy, D.G. Moodie et al. · Sensors and Actuators B Chemical Aug 1998 99
5 Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy With Wavelength Modulation: A Phasor Decomposition Method for Calibration-Free Measurements of Gas Concentration and Pressure Andrew James McGettrick, Kevin L. Duffin, Walter Johnstone et al. · Journal of Lightwave Technology 2008 75
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Which research topics does OptoSci (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Photonic and Optical Devices, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Spectroscopy and Laser Applications and Combustion and flame dynamics.

  1. 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Photonic Crystals and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  3. 3 Spectroscopy and Laser Applications Spectroscopy 0 works
  4. 4 Combustion and flame dynamics Computational Mechanics 0 works
  5. 5 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 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 available35.3%not open64.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.1%domestic only89.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has OptoSci (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 470% higher 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 OptoSci (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000041% in 2020.

0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%OptoSci (United Kingdom)0.000022% in 2022200020102020

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

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