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SAGA Light Source

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Research works
104
▲ 63% vs 2013–17
Citations
718
6.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: SAGA Light Source is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 2.21× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.85× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.93× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.51× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.19× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 3.78× its world share, 4 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 12.60× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.96× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 12.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at SAGA Light Source?

Ranked on the composite score, Y. Takabayashi and T. Kaneyasu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SAGA Light Source.

  1. 1 Y. Takabayashi Japan · #1,061,166 worldwide 43 citations · 32 works
  2. 2 T. Kaneyasu Japan · #1,211,156 worldwide 31 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at SAGA Light Source

Which keywords describe research at SAGA Light Source?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Synchrotron Radiation, Tomography, Phase Retrieval, X-ray Imaging, Free-Electron Lasers, X-Ray, Spectroscopy and X-ray Absorption.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 12 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 12 words, with their numbers
  1. Synchrotron Radiation3▲ 258×2 topics
  2. Tomography2▲ 46×3 topics
  3. Phase Retrieval2▲ 480×1 topic
  4. X-ray Imaging2▲ 210×1 topic
  5. Free-Electron Lasers2▲ 589×1 topic
  6. Spectroscopy2▲ 40×3 topics
  7. X-Ray2▲ 589×1 topic
  8. Channeling1▲ 1299×1 topic
  9. Nuclear Resonant Spectroscopy1▲ 1299×1 topic
  10. X-ray Absorption1▲ 310×1 topic
  11. X-ray Emission1▲ 626×1 topic
  12. Solar Cells1▲ 20×5 topics

Which research topics does SAGA Light Source publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques, Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers, Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis.

Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques: 2 fractional worksParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers: 2 fractional worksCrystallography and Radi…1Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena: 1 fractional worksX-ray Spectroscopy and F…1X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis: 1 fractional worksGyrotron and Vacuum Elec…1Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research: 1 fractional worksX-ray Diffraction in Cry…1X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography: 1 fractional worksElectron and X-Ray Spect…1Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques: 1 fractional worksParticle accelerators and beam dynamics: 1 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 1 fractional worksEnergy and Environmental Systems: 0 fractional works
RadiationElectrical and Electronic EngineeringCondensed Matter PhysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques Radiation 2 works
  2. 2 Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  3. 3 Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena Condensed Matter Physics 1 works
  4. 4 X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis Radiation 1 works
  5. 5 Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  6. 6 X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography Materials Chemistry 1 works
  7. 7 Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques Surfaces, Coatings and Films 1 works
  8. 8 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 1 works
  10. 10 Energy and Environmental Systems Transportation 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 available40.7%not open59.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.7%domestic only76.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has SAGA Light Source's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 63% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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