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Southeast Tech

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Research works
64
▼ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
570
8.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Southeast Tech

Not ranked overall: Southeast Tech 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 Southeast Tech work in?

In all years, 66% of research at Southeast Tech is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (25%), Environmental Science (14%), Physics and Astronomy (11%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 42 fractional works · 66.3% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 24.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 11.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 14.2% of its workPollution: 4 fractional works · 7.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 fractional works · 10.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 fractional works · 10.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 6.7% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 16.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 14.2% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 9.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSoutheast Tech64fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences66%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences17%

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 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1624.6%
    2. Environmental Science914.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy710.9%
    4. Computer Science46.7%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences22.9%
    6. Chemistry22.6%
    7. Materials Science22.5%
    8. Energy11.8%
    1. Social Sciences57.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting22.6%
    3. Decision Sciences12.3%
    4. Psychology12.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.7%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.5%
    1. Medicine69.0%
    2. Health Professions34.4%
    3. Veterinary00.5%
    4. Dentistry00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.6%
    2. Neuroscience00.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.02× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 3.62× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.15× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.35× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 5.26× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 2.45× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.86× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy5.26×1 works
  2. Chemistry3.62×1 works
  3. Energy3.01×0 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.86×0 works
  5. Health Professions2.45×1 works
  6. Engineering2.15×4 works
  7. Materials Science1.35×1 works
  8. Neuroscience1.02×0 works
  9. Psychology0.91×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.78×0 works
  11. Computer Science0.71×1 works
  12. Medicine0.63×2 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.57×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.48×0 works
  15. Environmental Science0.33×0 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.25×0 works
  17. Social Sciences0.11×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Southeast Tech?

Ranked on the quality score, Erich R. Gundlach lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Southeast Tech.

  1. 1 Erich R. Gundlach United States · #4,776,322 worldwide 1.1k citations · 96 works
All ranked researchers at Southeast Tech

What are the most cited papers from Southeast Tech?

The most cited paper from Southeast Tech is "Frontiers of Mid-IR Lasers Based on Transition Metal Doped Chalcogenides" (Sergey Mirov, Igor S. Moskalev, Sergey V. Vasilyev et al., 2018), with 356 citations. Next come "Tonometry in adults and children" (139) and "Super-octave longwave mid-infrared coherent transients produced by optical rectification of few-cycle 25-μm pulses" (132).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Frontiers of Mid-IR Lasers Based on Transition Metal Doped Chalcogenides Sergey Mirov, Igor S. Moskalev, Sergey V. Vasilyev et al. · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 22 Feb 2018 356
2 Tonometry in adults and children Dan Eisenberg, B. Sherman, Craig A. McKeown et al. · Ophthalmology Jul 1998 139
3 Super-octave longwave mid-infrared coherent transients produced by optical rectification of few-cycle 25-μm pulses Sergey V. Vasilyev, Igor S. Moskalev, Viktor Smolski et al. · Optica Open access 15 Jan 2019 132
4 Ultrafast middle-IR lasers and amplifiers based on polycrystalline Cr:ZnS and Cr:ZnSe Sergey V. Vasilyev, Igor S. Moskalev, Mike Mirov et al. · Optical Materials Express Open access 28 Jun 2017 104
5 Potential of Best Practice to Reduce Impacts from Oil and Gas Projects in the Amazon Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Bill Powers · PLoS ONE Open access May 2013 92
All 63 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Southeast Tech?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Nonlinear Optics, Biodegradation, Remote Sensing, Fiber Lasers, Health Effects, Microresonators, Frequency Conversion and Marine Pollution.

▲ 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 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. Nonlinear Optics7▲ 67×4 topics
  2. Remote Sensing5▲ 7.0×7 topics
  3. Biodegradation5▲ 68×3 topics
  4. Fiber Lasers5▲ 51×2 topics
  5. Environmental Impact4▲ 5.2×6 topics
  6. Health Effects4▲ 11×3 topics
  7. Microresonators4▲ 51×2 topics
  8. Frequency Conversion4▲ 61×3 topics
  9. Marine Pollution4▲ 279×2 topics
  10. Deepwater Horizon4▲ 532×1 topic
  11. Oil Spill Detection4▲ 532×1 topic
  12. Optical Frequency Combs4▲ 74×1 topic
  13. Raman Lasers4▲ 33×2 topics
  14. Ultrafast Lasers4▲ 74×1 topic
  15. Crystal Growth3▲ 15×2 topics
  16. Solid-State Lasers3▲ 163×1 topic
  17. Ytterbium3▲ 163×1 topic
  18. Attosecond Physics2▲ 83×1 topic
  19. Bioaccumulation2▲ 28×3 topics
  20. High-Harmonic Generation2▲ 83×1 topic
  21. Toxicity2▲ 7.5×2 topics
  22. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons2▲ 47×2 topics
  23. Gas Sensing2▲ 35×2 topics
  24. Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor2▲ 57×1 topic
  25. Brominated Flame Retardants2▲ 57×1 topic
  26. Cloud Computing1▲ 7.6×2 topics
  27. Community Empowerment1▲ 6.5×2 topics
  28. Modeling1▲ 8.1×3 topics
  29. Resilience1▲ 5.2×3 topics
  30. CO2 Sequestration1▲ 13×2 topics
  31. India1▲ 35×2 topics
  32. Firm Performance1▲ 11×2 topics
  33. High-Power Laser1▲ 73×1 topic
  34. Supercontinuum Generation1▲ 73×1 topic
  35. Decentralization1▲ 13×1 topic
  36. Drilling Fluids1▲ 30×1 topic
  37. Investor Protection1▲ 19×1 topic
  38. Kerala1▲ 165×1 topic
  39. Phase Change Materials1▲ 22×3 topics
  40. Professional Learning Communities1▲ 33×2 topics

Which research topics does Southeast Tech publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Drilling and Well Engineering, Solid State Laser Technologies and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications.

Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies: 1 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 1 fractional worksSolid State Laser Technologies: 1 fractional worksSpectroscopy and Laser Applications: 1 fractional worksTeaching and Learning Programming: 0 fractional worksLaser-Matter Interaction…0Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications: 0 fractional worksEngineering Education and Pedagogy: 0 fractional worksQuantum Dots Synthesis And Properties: 0 fractional worksEvaluation and Performance Assessment: 0 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementation Science: 0 fractional works
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsOcean EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSpectroscopy5 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  2. 2 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Solid State Laser Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Spectroscopy and Laser Applications Spectroscopy 1 works
  5. 5 Teaching and Learning Programming Computer Science Applications 0 works
  6. 6 Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  7. 7 Engineering Education and Pedagogy Architecture 0 works
  8. 8 Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties Materials Chemistry 0 works
  9. 9 Evaluation and Performance Assessment Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  10. 10 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 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 available32.1%not open67.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.7%domestic only82.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Southeast Tech's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% 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 Southeast Tech as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000047% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Southeast Tech0.000067% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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