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SpaceTech (United States)

In research, SpaceTech (United States) stands highest in Engineering (#5,418 of 9,532 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#10,775 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#25,090
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,230
of 7,310
Research works
355
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.6k
10.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.81×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
2%
world 18%
SpaceTech (United States)

What is SpaceTech (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
EngineeringField #5,418 of 9,532 6.0%179
Physical SciencesDomain #10,775 of 17,446 5.9%332

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

In all years, 94% of research at SpaceTech (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (50%), Physics and Astronomy (17%), Computer Science (8%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 332 fractional works · 93.7% of its workEngineering: 179 fractional works · 50.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 66 fractional works · 18.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 36 fractional works · 10.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 18 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 11 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 61 fractional works · 17.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 43 fractional works · 12.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInstrumentation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 29 fractional works · 8.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSoftware: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 27 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15 fractional works · 4.1% of its workOceanography: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 10 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNumerical Analysis: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 3.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSpaceTech (UnitedStates)355fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences94%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences3%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering17950.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy6117.1%
    3. Computer Science298.3%
    4. Environmental Science277.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences154.1%
    6. Materials Science102.9%
    7. Mathematics61.8%
    8. Chemistry30.7%
    9. Energy20.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.2%
    1. Decision Sciences41.2%
    2. Social Sciences20.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.6%
    4. Psychology10.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences41.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology41.0%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Medicine41.1%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.53× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 3.76× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 12.71× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicine1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 12.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy12.71×2 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences6.53×1 works
  3. Engineering3.76×4 works
  4. Environmental Science0.33×0 works
  5. Computer Science0.32×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×0 works
  7. Medicine0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at SpaceTech (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, B. C. Wolverton, J. M. Denney and R. C. Mcdonald lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SpaceTech (United States).

  1. 1 B. C. Wolverton United States · #2,049,713 worldwide 1.6k citations · 63 works
  2. 2 J. M. Denney United States · #3,516,559 worldwide 160 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 R. C. Mcdonald United States · #4,700,664 worldwide 183 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 R. L. Sohn United States · #4,770,418 worldwide 86 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 G. E. Mueller United States · #5,994,544 worldwide 160 citations · 51 works
All ranked researchers at SpaceTech (United States)

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

The most cited paper from SpaceTech (United States) is "Chebyshev semi-iterative methods, successive overrelaxation iterative methods, and second order Richardson iterative methods" (Gene Howard Golub, Richard S. Varga, 1961), with 316 citations. Next come "Luminescence and Energy Transfer in Solutions of Rare-Earth Complexes. I. Enhancement of Fluorescence by Deuterium Substitution" (288) and "Formation of Thin Polymer Films by Electron Bombardment" (180).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Chebyshev semi-iterative methods, successive overrelaxation iterative methods, and second order Richardson iterative methods Gene Howard Golub, Richard S. Varga · Numerische Mathematik Dec 1961 316
2 Luminescence and Energy Transfer in Solutions of Rare-Earth Complexes. I. Enhancement of Fluorescence by Deuterium Substitution John L. Kropp, Maurice W. Windsor · The Journal of Chemical Physics Mar 1965 288
3 Formation of Thin Polymer Films by Electron Bombardment Robert W. Christy · Journal of Applied Physics Sep 1960 180
4 Combined Digital Phase and Amplitude Modulation Communication Systems Charles R. Cahn · IRE Transactions on Communications Systems Sep 1960 150
5 Synthesizing time optimal control systems Lucien W. Neustadt · Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications Open access Dec 1960 143
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Which keywords describe research at SpaceTech (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Solar Wind, Thermal Analysis, CubeSat, small satellite, Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Electron Acceleration and Mars.

▲ 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. Solar Wind20▲ 40×2 topics
  2. Thermal Analysis19▲ 36×3 topics
  3. CubeSat17▲ 195×1 topic
  4. small satellite17▲ 195×1 topic
  5. Machine Learning15▲ 1.92×16 topics
  6. Remote Sensing12▲ 3.2×15 topics
  7. Climate Change12▲ 1.29×16 topics
  8. Coronal Mass Ejections11▲ 44×1 topic
  9. Solar Dynamics Observatory11▲ 44×1 topic
  10. Electron Acceleration9▲ 27×2 topics
  11. Mars9▲ 52×1 topic
  12. Martian Surface9▲ 52×1 topic
  13. Thermodynamic Modeling9▲ 15×2 topics
  14. Cryogenic Storage9▲ 67×1 topic
  15. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)9▲ 67×1 topic
  16. Ionosphere9▲ 36×1 topic
  17. Magnetosphere9▲ 36×1 topic
  18. High Efficiency7▲ 58×2 topics
  19. Solar System Abundances7▲ 23×1 topic
  20. Terrestrial Planets7▲ 23×1 topic
  21. Risk Assessment6▲ 3.1×5 topics
  22. Concentrator Photovoltaics6▲ 101×1 topic
  23. Multijunction Solar Cells6▲ 101×1 topic
  24. Optimization6▲ 3.2×7 topics
  25. Wastewater Treatment6▲ 8.6×4 topics
  26. Sensor Networks6▲ 7.5×3 topics
  27. Nonlinear Dynamics5▲ 6.1×4 topics
  28. Orbit Determination5▲ 35×2 topics
  29. Spectroscopy5▲ 4.6×4 topics
  30. Microbial Processes5▲ 23×2 topics
  31. CMOS Technology5▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Hydrological Modeling5▲ 7.2×3 topics
  33. Pose Estimation5▲ 20×2 topics
  34. On-Orbit Servicing5▲ 70×1 topic
  35. Space Debris5▲ 70×1 topic
  36. Constructed Wetlands5▲ 66×1 topic
  37. Nutrient Removal5▲ 19×1 topic
  38. Sensor Fusion5▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Metal Nanoparticles5▲ 8.5×3 topics
  40. Biomass Estimation4▲ 11×3 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Astro and Planetary Science, Spacecraft Design and Technology, solar cell performance optimization and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics.

Astro and Planetary Scie…1Astro and Planetary Science: 1 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Te…0Spacecraft Design and Technology: 0 fractional workssolar cell performance o…0solar cell performance optimization: 0 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…0Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 0 fractional worksElectromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology: 0 fractional worksSpacecraft Dynamics and Control: 0 fractional worksSolar and Space Plasma D…0Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics: 0 fractional worksSpace Satellite Systems and Control: 0 fractional worksRocket and propulsion systems research: 0 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity M…0Geophysics and Gravity Measurements: 0 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsAerospace EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringOceanography

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

  1. 1 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  2. 2 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 solar cell performance optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  5. 5 Electromagnetic Launch and Propulsion Technology Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  8. 8 Space Satellite Systems and Control Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Rocket and propulsion systems research Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 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 available27.8%not open72.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.3%domestic only97.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 SpaceTech (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000025% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%SpaceTech (United States)0.000028% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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