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Snolab

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Research works
34
▼ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
680
19.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
68%
world 40%
International
36%
world 18%
Snolab

Not ranked overall: Snolab 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 Snolab work in?

In all years, 96% of research at Snolab is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (84%), Engineering (8%), Environmental Science (3%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 33 fractional works · 96.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 29 fractional works · 83.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 23 fractional works · 66.4% of its workRadiation: 3 fractional works · 9.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 7.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSnolab34fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences96%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences0%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy2983.8%
    2. Engineering37.6%
    3. Environmental Science12.7%
    4. Materials Science01.1%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.1%
    1. Health Professions12.1%
    2. Medicine01.4%
    1. Social Sciences00.2%
    2. Decision Sciences00.0%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Snolab?

Ranked on the quality score, Ian Lawson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Snolab.

  1. 1 Ian Lawson Canada · #2,416,469 worldwide 224 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Snolab

What are the most cited papers from Snolab?

The most cited paper from Snolab is "Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND" (S. Abe et al., 2008), with 826 citations. Next come "DarkSide-20k: A 20 tonne two-phase LAr TPC for direct dark matter detection at LNGS" (630) and "IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe" (538).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND S. Abe et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 5 Jun 2008 826
2 DarkSide-20k: A 20 tonne two-phase LAr TPC for direct dark matter detection at LNGS C.E. Aalseth et al. · The European Physical Journal Plus Open access287 authors Mar 2018 630
3 IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe M G Aartsen et al. · Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics Open access434 authors 29 Apr 2021 538
4 Time-Integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 Years of IceCube Data M. G. Aartsen et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access362 authors 6 Feb 2020 453
5 Search for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data J. B. Albert et al. · Nature Open access Jun 2014 439
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Snolab?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Dark Matter, Particle Physics, Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Cosmology, Axions, WIMPs and Neutrino Flavor Transformation.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 26 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Dark Matter12▲ 181×3 topics
  2. Particle Physics12▲ 271×2 topics
  3. Cosmic Rays9▲ 412×2 topics
  4. Neutrinos9▲ 412×2 topics
  5. Cosmology7▲ 217×2 topics
  6. Axions7▲ 686×1 topic
  7. WIMPs7▲ 686×1 topic
  8. Neutrino Flavor Transformation5▲ 631×1 topic
  9. Neutrino Oscillations5▲ 631×1 topic
  10. Higgs Boson5▲ 145×1 topic
  11. High-Energy Collider5▲ 145×1 topic
  12. Photon Counting3▲ 108×2 topics
  13. CMOS Technology3▲ 63×3 topics
  14. High-Energy Astrophysics2▲ 195×1 topic
  15. Particle Acceleration2▲ 195×1 topic
  16. Particle Detectors2▲ 275×1 topic
  17. Silicon Detectors2▲ 275×1 topic
  18. Inorganic Scintillators2▲ 146×1 topic
  19. Scintillation Detectors2▲ 146×1 topic
  20. Lung Cancer2▲ 30×2 topics
  21. Health Effects2▲ 7.1×2 topics
  22. Radionuclides2▲ 81×2 topics
  23. Atomic Magnetometer1▲ 58×1 topic
  24. Breath Analysis1▲ 21×1 topic
  25. Electronic Nose1▲ 36×1 topic
  26. Magnetic Resonance Imaging1▲ 7.9×1 topic

Which research topics does Snolab publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Particle Detector Development and Performance and Neutrino Physics Research.

Dark Matter and Cosmic P…2Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena: 2 fractional worksParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 1 fractional worksParticle Detector Development and Performance: 1 fractional worksNeutrino Physics Research1Neutrino Physics Research: 1 fractional worksRadiation Detection and …0Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies: 0 fractional worksRadioactivity and Radon Measurements: 0 fractional worksRadiation Dose and Imaging: 0 fractional worksAtomic and Subatomic Physics Research: 0 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 0 fractional worksRadioactive contamination and transfer: 0 fractional works
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsRadiationRadiological and Ultrasound TechnologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging2 others

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

  1. 1 Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 2 works
  2. 2 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1 works
  3. 3 Particle Detector Development and Performance Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1 works
  4. 4 Neutrino Physics Research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1 works
  5. 5 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies Radiation 0 works
  6. 6 Radioactivity and Radon Measurements Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 0 works
  7. 7 Radiation Dose and Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  8. 8 Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  9. 9 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 0 works
  10. 10 Radioactive contamination and transfer Global and Planetary Change 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 available67.8%not open32.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.6%domestic only64.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Snolab's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting20052010201520202025
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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 Snolab as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000017% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Snolab0.000023% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Snolab over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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