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Signal Processing (United States)

In research, Signal Processing (United States) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,625 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Science (Computer Science is 4.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#15,165
of 22,385 · #11,800 all time
Rank in United States
#2,169
of 3,332
Research works
2.5k
▼ 46% vs 2018-21
Citations
38k
15.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
36%
world 18%
Signal Processing (United States)

What is Signal Processing (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #7,625 of 10,670 7.3%113 #5809

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Signal Processing (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 Signal Processing (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at Signal Processing (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (35%), Engineering (32%), Medicine (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 119 fractional works · 79.9% of its workComputer Science: 52 fractional works · 34.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 18 fractional works · 11.8% of its workSignal Processing: 13 fractional works · 8.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 13 fractional works · 8.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 47 fractional works · 31.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 13 fractional works · 8.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 12 fractional works · 7.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 6 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGeophysics: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 7.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 7.1% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 5.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 5.6% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKSignal Processing(United States)149fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences7%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science5234.8%
    2. Engineering4731.8%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences74.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy63.9%
    5. Environmental Science53.5%
    6. Mathematics10.7%
    7. Chemistry10.5%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Decision Sciences32.1%
    2. Social Sciences32.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.3%
    4. Psychology10.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.6%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.5%
    1. Medicine85.5%
    2. Health Professions21.4%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Neuroscience42.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Signal Processing (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Science takes 4.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer ScienceField · 51.6 works4.5×
← 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: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.65× its world share, 4 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.47× its world share, 52 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.99× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 2.12× its world share, 47 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.70× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.76× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.53× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.20× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.62× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.47×52 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.99×7 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.20×3 works
  4. Engineering2.12×47 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.76×6 works
  6. Neuroscience1.65×4 works
  7. Environmental Science0.70×5 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.62×2 works
  9. Mathematics0.60×1 works
  10. Veterinary0.55×0 works
  11. Health Professions0.53×2 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.34×3 works
  13. Chemistry0.30×1 works
  14. Medicine0.29×8 works
  15. Psychology0.28×1 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.23×2 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.22×1 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.17×1 works
  19. Social Sciences0.16×3 works
  20. Nursing0.11×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Signal Processing (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, M. Krasner, Bulent Ayhan and Ajem Guido Janssen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Signal Processing (United States).

  1. 1 M. Krasner United States · #2,422,625 worldwide 691 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Bulent Ayhan United States · #2,592,120 worldwide 3.4k citations · 105 works
  3. 3 Ajem Guido Janssen United States · #3,808,836 worldwide 517 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Joseph R. Fisher United States · #3,959,361 worldwide 274 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 Frank Baumgarte United States · #4,513,379 worldwide 631 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Leo Llm Vogten United States · #4,828,872 worldwide 302 citations · 27 works
  7. 7 J. van den Tillaart United States · #5,153,026 worldwide 5 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 TJ Tjalling Tjalkens United States · #5,487,158 worldwide 79 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Hhm Erik Korsten United States · #5,688,929 worldwide 27 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Faculteit Elektrotechniek United States · #5,696,610 worldwide 1 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Signal Processing (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Signal Processing (United States) is "The emerging field of signal processing on graphs: Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains" (David I Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard et al., 2013), with 4,577 citations. Next come "Multi-Cell MIMO Cooperative Networks: A New Look at Interference" (1,839) and "Tensor Decompositions for Signal Processing Applications: From two-way to multiway component analysis" (1,417).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The emerging field of signal processing on graphs: Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains David I Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard et al. · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Open access 5 Apr 2013 4,577
2 Multi-Cell MIMO Cooperative Networks: A New Look at Interference David Gesbert, Stephen Vaughan Hanly, Howard Huang et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 5 Oct 2010 1,839
3 Tensor Decompositions for Signal Processing Applications: From two-way to multiway component analysis Andrzej S Cichocki, Danilo P. Mandic, Lieven De Lathauwer et al. · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Open access 10 Feb 2015 1,417
4 Optimal Stopping Times for Detecting Changes in Distributions George V. Moustakides · The Annals of Statistics Open access Dec 1986 1,044
5 Cyclostationarity: Half a century of research William A. Gardner, Antonio Napolitano, Luigi Paura · Signal Processing 7 Sep 2005 971
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Signal Processing (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Beamforming, Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, Speech Enhancement and Feature Extraction.

▲ 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 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. Deep Learning29▲ 5.7×48 topics
  2. Neural Networks16▲ 6.8×21 topics
  3. Convolutional Neural Networks14▲ 13×13 topics
  4. Machine Learning14▲ 2.8×34 topics
  5. Beamforming8▲ 49×3 topics
  6. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition6▲ 80×1 topic
  7. Speech Enhancement6▲ 80×1 topic
  8. Remote Sensing6▲ 3.2×13 topics
  9. Feature Extraction6▲ 8.1×9 topics
  10. Wireless Sensor Networks5▲ 7.8×11 topics
  11. Hidden Markov Models5▲ 59×2 topics
  12. Deep Neural Networks5▲ 27×2 topics
  13. Sparse Representation4▲ 15×6 topics
  14. Acoustic Modeling4▲ 73×1 topic
  15. Speaker Verification4▲ 73×1 topic
  16. Hydrological Modeling4▲ 10.0×4 topics
  17. Support Vector Machines3▲ 7.0×6 topics
  18. Validation3▲ 24×2 topics
  19. Hyperspectral Imaging3▲ 7.3×6 topics
  20. Classification3▲ 4.1×6 topics
  21. Audio Signal Classification3▲ 49×1 topic
  22. Data Assimilation3▲ 11×3 topics
  23. Music Information Retrieval3▲ 49×1 topic
  24. Satellite Observations3▲ 18×2 topics
  25. Global Monitoring2▲ 65×1 topic
  26. Signal Processing2▲ 12×5 topics
  27. Soil Moisture2▲ 23×1 topic
  28. Adaptive Filtering2▲ 116×1 topic
  29. Non-Gaussian Signal Processing2▲ 116×1 topic
  30. Wireless Communications2▲ 9.3×5 topics
  31. SAR Interferometry2▲ 66×1 topic
  32. Surface Deformation Monitoring2▲ 66×1 topic
  33. Robotics2▲ 5.9×4 topics
  34. Channel Estimation2▲ 16×4 topics
  35. Wavelet Transform2▲ 6.1×6 topics
  36. Genetic Algorithms2▲ 10×2 topics
  37. Transfer Learning2▲ 7.2×3 topics
  38. Doppler Radar2▲ 16×2 topics
  39. Geophysical Imaging2▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Particle Swarm Optimization2▲ 11×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Speech and Audio Processing, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Music and Audio Processing and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing.

Speech and Audio Process…6Speech and Audio Processing: 6 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 4 fractional worksMusic and Audio Processing: 3 fractional worksSoil Moisture and Remote Sensing: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques: 2 fractional worksSynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques: 2 fractional worksBlind Source Separation …2Blind Source Separation Techniques: 2 fractional worksAntenna Design and Optimization: 2 fractional worksUnderwater Acoustics Research: 2 fractional worksNeural Networks and Applications: 2 fractional works
Signal ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceEnvironmental EngineeringComputational Mechanics2 others

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

  1. 1 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 6 works
  2. 2 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  3. 3 Music and Audio Processing Signal Processing 3 works
  4. 4 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques Computational Mechanics 2 works
  6. 6 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  7. 7 Blind Source Separation Techniques Signal Processing 2 works
  8. 8 Antenna Design and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  9. 9 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 2 works
  10. 10 Neural Networks and Applications Artificial Intelligence 2 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 available26.7%not open73.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors36.2%domestic only63.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% 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 Signal Processing (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00069% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Signal Processing (United States)0.00028% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2024Signal Processing (United States)6.1% in 2024200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.2% in 1991.

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