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RDA (United States)

Research works
5
fractional, all time
Citations
17
3.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
4%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%

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

In all years, 97% of research at RDA (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 1% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (55%), Physics and Astronomy (33%), Materials Science (6%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences97%Health 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 3 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering354.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy233.1%
    3. Materials Science06.1%
    4. Computer Science03.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.3%
    1. Health Professions01.3%
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 RDA (United States)?

The most cited paper from RDA (United States) is "Material figures of merit for saturated excited-state absorptive limiters" (Perry A. Miles, 1994), with 10 citations. Next come "COIL performance modeling and recent advances in diagnostic measurements" (6) and "Scatter and reflectivity measurements on large telescope mirror coatings" (4).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Material figures of merit for saturated excited-state absorptive limiters Perry A. Miles · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 15 May 1994 10
2 COIL performance modeling and recent advances in diagnostic measurements Keith A. Truesdell, Charles A. Helms, S. Frerking et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 4 Apr 1997 6
3 Scatter and reflectivity measurements on large telescope mirror coatings James W. Mayo, Don H. Killpatrick · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 25 Aug 1998 4
4 Clinical Trial Schedule of Activities Specification Using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Definitional Resources: Mixed Methods Study Andrew J. Richardson, Patrick Genyn · JMIR Medical Informatics Open access 16 Sep 2025 0
5 Mode locking of a cw supersonic chemical oxygen-iodine laser Steven P. Phipps, Charles A. Helms, Richard J. Copland et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 4 Apr 1997 0
All 8 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

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

By volume in 2022-now: Machine Learning in Healthcare, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies and Electronic Health Records Systems.

  1. 1 Machine Learning in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  2. 2 Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies Molecular Biology 0 works
  3. 3 Electronic Health Records Systems Health Information Management 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 available3.7%not open96.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.7%domestic only96.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

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