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Qinetiq (United States)

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Research works
5
fractional, all time
Citations
98
18.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
41%
world 18%
Qinetiq (United States)

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

In all years, 66% of research at Qinetiq (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (22%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%), Veterinary (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 66.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 22.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 17.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 18.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 8.9% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 8.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 17.9% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 11.5% of its workEquine: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 16.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workALL ITS WORKQinetiq (UnitedStates)5fractional works, all years
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences66%Health Sciences18%

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 3 domains and 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering122.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences118.8%
    3. Physics and Astronomy08.7%
    4. Materials Science04.3%
    5. Environmental Science03.2%
    6. Chemistry02.8%
    7. Computer Science02.3%
    8. Mathematics02.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering01.5%
    1. Veterinary111.5%
    2. Medicine06.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences07.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology06.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology02.1%
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.

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

The most cited paper from Qinetiq (United States) is "Low Dielectric Polyimide Aerogels As Substrates for Lightweight Patch Antennas" (Mary Ann B. Meador, Sarah Wright, Anna Sandberg et al., 2012), with 239 citations. Next come "Synthesis and Properties of Step-Growth Polyamide Aerogels Cross-linked with Triacid Chlorides" (102) and "Aqueous extracts of a Mars analogue regolith that mimics the Phoenix landing site do not inhibit spore germination or growth of model spacecraft contaminants Bacillus subtilis 168 and Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032" (32).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Low Dielectric Polyimide Aerogels As Substrates for Lightweight Patch Antennas Mary Ann B. Meador, Sarah Wright, Anna Sandberg et al. · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 Nov 2012 239
2 Synthesis and Properties of Step-Growth Polyamide Aerogels Cross-linked with Triacid Chlorides Jarrod C. Williams, Mary Ann B. Meador, Linda McCorkle et al. · Chemistry of Materials 4 Jul 2014 102
3 Aqueous extracts of a Mars analogue regolith that mimics the Phoenix landing site do not inhibit spore germination or growth of model spacecraft contaminants Bacillus subtilis 168 and Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 Wayne L. Nicholson, LaShelle McCoy, Krystal R. Kerney et al. · Icarus Jul 2012 32
4 Wide Field Camera 3 CCD quantum efficiency hysteresis: characterization and mitigation Nicholas R. Collins, Nicholas Boehm, Gregory S. Delo et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 20 Aug 2009 15
5 Optical alignment of the Global Precipitation Measurements (GPM) star trackers Samuel E. Hetherington, Dean Osgood, Joe McMann et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 9 Sep 2013 9
All 12 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

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

By volume in 2022-now: Veterinary Equine Medical Research, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock and Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology.

Veterinary Equine Medica…0Veterinary Equine Medical Research: 0 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional worksEffects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock: 0 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and D…0Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 0 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 0 fractional worksCutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research: 0 fractional worksDermatology and Skin Dis…0Dermatology and Skin Diseases: 0 fractional worksVeterinary medicine and infectious diseases: 0 fractional worksAnimal health and immunology: 0 fractional worksGenetic and phenotypic t…0Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 0 fractional works
EquineSmall AnimalsAnimal Science and ZoologyAgronomy and Crop Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Veterinary Equine Medical Research Equine 0 works
  2. 2 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 0 works
  3. 3 Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  4. 4 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 0 works
  5. 5 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 0 works
  6. 6 Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders research Dermatology 0 works
  7. 7 Dermatology and Skin Diseases Dermatology 0 works
  8. 8 Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases Small Animals 0 works
  9. 9 Animal health and immunology Small Animals 0 works
  10. 10 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 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 available46.9%not open53.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.9%domestic only59.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

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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 Qinetiq (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%Qinetiq (United States)0.000011% in 202520102020

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

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