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Positron Systems (United States)

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Research works
43
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
488
11.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
17%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Positron Systems (United States)

Not ranked overall: Positron Systems (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 Positron Systems (United States) work in?

In all years, 78% of research at Positron Systems (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 16% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (50%), Medicine (16%), Computer Science (10%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 78.3% of its workEngineering: 22 fractional works · 49.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 8 fractional works · 18.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 14.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 5.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 5.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 10.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 10.2% of its workRadiation: 2 fractional works · 5.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCeramics and Composites: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBioengineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 15.9% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 15.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKPositron Systems(United States)43fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences78%Health Sciences16%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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2249.8%
    2. Computer Science410.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy410.2%
    4. Materials Science24.6%
    5. Environmental Science11.8%
    6. Chemical Engineering01.2%
    7. Chemistry00.4%
    1. Medicine715.7%
    2. Health Professions00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.9%
    2. Neuroscience00.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    1. Arts and Humanities12.3%
    2. Social Sciences00.5%
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.

Computer Science: 3.05× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.05× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.13× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 13.34× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 1.19× its world share, 1 worksMedicine1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 13.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy13.34×1 works
  2. Computer Science3.05×1 works
  3. Medicine1.19×1 works
  4. Materials Science1.13×0 works
  5. Engineering1.05×0 works
  6. Environmental Science0.80×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Positron Systems (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Scott J. Ritchie and Curtis A. Rideout lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Positron Systems (United States).

  1. 1 Scott J. Ritchie United States · #4,602,450 worldwide 55 citations · 27 works
  2. 2 Curtis A. Rideout United States · #4,866,467 worldwide 25 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Positron Systems (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Positron Systems (United States) is "Experience with the detection of faulty composite insulators on high-voltage power lines by the electric field measurement method" (Georges H. Vaillancourt, S. Carignan, Charles Jean, 1998), with 104 citations. Next come "An approximation formula for the variance of PET region-of-interest values" (96) and "New live line tester for porcelain suspension insulators on high-voltage power lines" (92).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Experience with the detection of faulty composite insulators on high-voltage power lines by the electric field measurement method Georges H. Vaillancourt, S. Carignan, Charles Jean · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Apr 1998 104
2 An approximation formula for the variance of PET region-of-interest values Richard E. Carson, Yan Yan, Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon et al. · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Jun 1993 96
3 New live line tester for porcelain suspension insulators on high-voltage power lines Georges H. Vaillancourt, J.-P. Bellerive, M. St-Jean et al. · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 1994 92
4 Cerebral glucose metabolism after portacaval shunting in the rat. Patterns of metabolism and implications for the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy. Alan H. Lockwood, M. D. Ginsberg, Howard M. Rhoades et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access Jul 1986 53
5 Four-dimensional imaging of transvacuolar strand dynamics in tobacco BY-2 cells Nadia Ruthardt, N. Gulde, Hans Ullrich Spiegel et al. · PROTOPLASMA Oct 2005 38
All 44 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Positron Systems (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Nanostructures, Spectroscopy, Defect Identification, Positron Annihilation, CMOS Technology, Plasma Etching, Semiconductor Industry and Ion Beam.

▲ 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. Nanostructures8▲ 40×2 topics
  2. Spectroscopy7▲ 47×2 topics
  3. Defect Identification6▲ 991×1 topic
  4. Positron Annihilation6▲ 991×1 topic
  5. CMOS Technology3▲ 54×3 topics
  6. Plasma Etching2▲ 122×1 topic
  7. Semiconductor Industry2▲ 122×1 topic
  8. Ion Beam2▲ 118×1 topic
  9. Surface Analysis2▲ 118×1 topic
  10. Cancer2▲ 3.0×2 topics
  11. Imaging2▲ 11×1 topic
  12. PET/CT2▲ 53×1 topic
  13. Fault Tolerance2▲ 19×3 topics
  14. Nanocomposites2▲ 5.1×3 topics
  15. Medical Imaging2▲ 13×2 topics
  16. Molecular Dynamics Simulations2▲ 64×2 topics
  17. Data Analysis1▲ 10.0×2 topics
  18. Distributed Systems1▲ 13×2 topics
  19. ESD Protection1▲ 164×1 topic
  20. SCR Devices1▲ 164×1 topic
  21. Battery Materials1▲ 30×1 topic
  22. Inorganic Scintillators1▲ 68×1 topic
  23. Lithium-ion Batteries1▲ 11×1 topic
  24. Neutron Imaging1▲ 34×1 topic
  25. Particle Detectors1▲ 100×1 topic
  26. Scintillation Detectors1▲ 68×1 topic
  27. Silicon Detectors1▲ 100×1 topic
  28. Small-Angle Scattering1▲ 21×1 topic
  29. Magnetic Resonance Imaging1▲ 6.9×2 topics
  30. Thin Films1▲ 9.3×2 topics
  31. Coatings1▲ 26×1 topic
  32. Cultural History1▲ 16×1 topic
  33. Energetic Salts1▲ 87×1 topic
  34. Mobile Agents1▲ 81×1 topic
  35. Nanoindentation1▲ 27×1 topic
  36. Negative Ion Sources1▲ 51×1 topic
  37. Network Management1▲ 44×1 topic
  38. ReaxFF1▲ 87×1 topic
  39. Superconducting Cavities1▲ 51×1 topic
  40. Walter Benjamin1▲ 824×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022-now: Astro and Planetary Science, Robot Manipulation and Learning, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications.

Astro and Planetary Scie…0Astro and Planetary Science: 0 fractional worksRobot Manipulation and L…0Robot Manipulation and Learning: 0 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Fe…0Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 0 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…0Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 0 fractional worksParticle Detector Development and Performance: 0 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 0 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Appl…0Nuclear Physics and Applications: 0 fractional worksRadiation Therapy and Dosimetry: 0 fractional worksVascular Tumors and Angiosarcomas: 0 fractional worksSarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsControl and Systems EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition4 others

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

  1. 1 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  2. 2 Robot Manipulation and Learning Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  4. 4 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0 works
  5. 5 Particle Detector Development and Performance Nuclear and High Energy Physics 0 works
  6. 6 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  7. 7 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 0 works
  8. 8 Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Vascular Tumors and Angiosarcomas Oncology 0 works
  10. 10 Sarcoma 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 available16.6%not open83.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.6%domestic only86.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% 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 Positron Systems (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000090% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Positron Systems (United States)0.000017% in 20251990200020102020

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

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