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QED Technologies (United States)

In research, QED Technologies (United States) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#11,556 of 17,446 worldwide) and Engineering (#7,165 of 9,532 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Physical Sciences (Physical Sciences is 2.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#27,911
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,852
of 7,310
Research works
242
▼ 21% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.5k
14.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
23%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
QED Technologies (United States)

What is QED Technologies (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #11,556 of 17,446 10.5%216
EngineeringField #7,165 of 9,532 12.0%148

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where QED Technologies (United States) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

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

In 2022-now, 82% of research at QED Technologies (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (43%), Engineering (18%), Computer Science (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 29 fractional works · 81.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 fractional works · 42.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 fractional works · 23.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 8.9% of its workInstrumentation: 3 fractional works · 8.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 18.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 12.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 6.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 8.1% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 6.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKQED Technologies(United States)35fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences82%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy1542.8%
    2. Engineering618.1%
    3. Computer Science412.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.8%
    5. Materials Science11.8%
    6. Chemistry11.7%
    7. Energy01.4%
    1. Medicine38.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.9%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Decision Sciences01.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.3%
    3. Psychology00.6%
    4. Social Sciences00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does QED Technologies (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Physical Sciences takes 2.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Physical SciencesDomain · 28.6 works2.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 1.06× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.54× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.43× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.55× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.20× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 19.23× its world share, 15 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 1.48× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× 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, 19.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy19.23×15 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.43×1 works
  3. Energy1.55×0 works
  4. Computer Science1.54×4 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.48×0 works
  6. Engineering1.20×6 works
  7. Chemistry1.06×1 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.00×2 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.59×0 works
  10. Materials Science0.51×1 works
  11. Medicine0.42×3 works
  12. Psychology0.21×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×0 works
  14. Neuroscience0.12×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at QED Technologies (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Gary Li, William I. Kordonski and Jon F. Fleig lead among researchers whose main affiliation is QED Technologies (United States).

  1. 1 Gary Li United States · #436,703 worldwide 1.3k citations · 64 works
  2. 2 William I. Kordonski United States · #954,053 worldwide 2.2k citations · 54 works
  3. 3 Jon F. Fleig United States · #2,081,391 worldwide 346 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Marc Tricard United States · #2,401,898 worldwide 1.4k citations · 58 works
  5. 5 Daryoush Allaei United States · #2,454,894 worldwide 293 citations · 42 works
  6. 6 Greg W. Forbes United States · #2,592,258 worldwide 461 citations · 32 works
  7. 7 David Tarnowski United States · #2,847,642 worldwide 84 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 John Milam United States · #3,104,575 worldwide 370 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Paul E. Murphy United States · #3,186,489 worldwide 657 citations · 57 works
  10. 10 Michael A. DeMarco United States · #3,288,386 worldwide 61 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at QED Technologies (United States)

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

The most cited paper from QED Technologies (United States) is "Infigratinib (BGJ398) in previously treated patients with advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusions or rearrangements: mature results from a multicentre, open-label, single-arm, phase 2 study" (Milind M. Javle et al., 2021), with 438 citations. Next come "Material Removal Mechanisms in Lapping and Polishing" (389) and "Fibroblast growth factor receptors in cancer: genetic alterations, diagnostics, therapeutic targets and mechanisms of resistance" (375).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Infigratinib (BGJ398) in previously treated patients with advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusions or rearrangements: mature results from a multicentre, open-label, single-arm, phase 2 study Milind M. Javle et al. · ˜The œLancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology 3 Aug 2021 438
2 Material Removal Mechanisms in Lapping and Polishing C. J. Evans, E. Paul, D. Dornfeld et al. · CIRP Annals Open access 2003 389
3 Fibroblast growth factor receptors in cancer: genetic alterations, diagnostics, therapeutic targets and mechanisms of resistance Melanie A. Krook, Julie W. Reeser, Gabrielle Ernst et al. · British Journal of Cancer Open access 2 Dec 2020 375
4 Shape specification for axially symmetric optical surfaces G. W. Forbes · Optics Express Open access 2007 221
5 Innovations in Abrasive Products for Precision Grinding John Webster, Marc Tricard · CIRP Annals 2004 213
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at QED Technologies (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Solar System Abundances, Spectrograph, Terrestrial Planets, Machine Learning and Data Mining.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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 16 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Exoplanets4▲ 286×1 topic
  2. Stellar Astrophysics4▲ 286×1 topic
  3. Machine Learning3▲ 2.6×10 topics
  4. Astronomical Instrumentation3▲ 264×1 topic
  5. Solar System Abundances3▲ 177×1 topic
  6. Spectrograph3▲ 264×1 topic
  7. Terrestrial Planets3▲ 177×1 topic
  8. Data Mining2▲ 7.1×4 topics
  9. Deep Learning1▲ 1.17×9 topics
  10. Star Formation1▲ 68×2 topics
  11. Neural Networks1▲ 2.3×3 topics
  12. Color Constancy1▲ 264×1 topic
  13. Colorimetry1▲ 264×1 topic
  14. Differential Privacy1▲ 41×1 topic
  15. Federated Learning1▲ 41×1 topic
  16. Tool Wear1▲ 23×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Astro and Planetary Science and Color Science and Applications.

Stellar, planetary, and …4Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 4 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysical Research: 3 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Science: 3 fractional worksColor Science and Applications: 1 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Surface Polishing Techniques: 1 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 1 fractional worksSpacecraft Dynamics and Control: 1 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 1 fractional worksGeomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies: 1 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentationAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsArtificial Intelligence4 others

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

  1. 1 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 works
  2. 2 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 3 works
  3. 3 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 3 works
  4. 4 Color Science and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  5. 5 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  6. 6 Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 1 works
  8. 8 Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  10. 10 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies Molecular Biology 1 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 available22.6%not open77.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.5%domestic only85.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% 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 QED Technologies (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%QED Technologies (United States)0.00012% in 20251990200020102020

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

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