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Sun Chemical (United Kingdom)

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Research works
9
▲ 241% vs 2018-21
Citations
402
43.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
23%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Sun Chemical (United Kingdom)

Not ranked overall: Sun Chemical (United Kingdom) 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 Sun Chemical (United Kingdom) work in?

In all years, 61% of research at Sun Chemical (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Chemistry (23%), Engineering (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 61.0% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 23.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 19.2% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 17.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 8.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 13.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 10.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBioengineering: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 19.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 15.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 13.2% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 16.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 10.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 10.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workALL ITS WORKSun Chemical(United Kingdom)9fractional works, all years
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences61%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences16%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Chemistry223.4%
    2. Engineering217.1%
    3. Materials Science113.8%
    4. Energy03.0%
    5. Chemical Engineering01.8%
    6. Physics and Astronomy01.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology115.0%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics03.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities110.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting03.6%
    3. Social Sciences01.8%
    1. Medicine03.6%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Sun Chemical (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from Sun Chemical (United Kingdom) is "Development of a Continuous Process for the Industrial Generation of Diazomethane1" (Lee D. Proctor, Antony J. Warr, 2002), with 147 citations. Next come "Stereoselective Synthesis of Ferrocene‐Based C2‐Symmetric Diphosphine Ligands: Application to the Highly Enantioselective Hydrogenation of α‐Substituted Cinnamic Acids" (114) and "The diacetone acrylamide crosslinking reaction and its influence on the film formation of an acrylic latex" (90).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of a Continuous Process for the Industrial Generation of Diazomethane1 Lee D. Proctor, Antony J. Warr · Organic Process Research & Development 29 Oct 2002 147
2 Stereoselective Synthesis of Ferrocene‐Based C2‐Symmetric Diphosphine Ligands: Application to the Highly Enantioselective Hydrogenation of α‐Substituted Cinnamic Acids Weiping Chen, Peter J. McCormack, Karim O. Mohammed et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition Open access 19 Apr 2007 114
3 The diacetone acrylamide crosslinking reaction and its influence on the film formation of an acrylic latex Nicola. Kessel, Derek R. Illsley, Joseph L. Keddie · Journal of Coatings Technology and Research 15 Apr 2008 90
4 Optimization of the synthesis of poly(octadecyl acrylate) by atom transfer radical polymerization and the preparation of all comblike amphiphilic diblock copolymers G. B. Street, Derek R. Illsley, Simon J. Holder · Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry 26 Jan 2005 62
5 Investigation of polyviologens as oxygen indicators in food packaging L. D. Roberts, Robert Lines, Subrayal M. Reddy et al. · Sensors and Actuators B Chemical 2 Oct 2010 60
All 16 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Sun Chemical (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, GABA and Rice Research, Polyamine Metabolism and Applications and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment.

Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques: 0 fractional worksGABA and Rice Research: 0 fractional worksPolyamine Metabolism and Applications: 0 fractional worksCarcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional worksBiosensors and Analytical Detection: 0 fractional works
Molecular BiologyPlant ScienceCancer ResearchBiomedical Engineering

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

  1. 1 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques Molecular Biology 0 works
  2. 2 GABA and Rice Research Plant Science 0 works
  3. 3 Polyamine Metabolism and Applications Molecular Biology 0 works
  4. 4 Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment Cancer Research 0 works
  5. 5 Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications Molecular Biology 0 works
  6. 6 Biosensors and Analytical Detection Biomedical Engineering 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 available23.4%not open76.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.3%domestic only84.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sun Chemical (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 241% higher 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 Sun Chemical (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000033% in 2021.

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Fractional works of Sun Chemical (United Kingdom) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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