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TechSource (United States)

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Research works
45
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
432
9.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
TechSource (United States)

Not ranked overall: TechSource (United States) 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 TechSource (United States) work in?

In all years, 88% of research at TechSource (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (46%), Physics and Astronomy (28%), Computer Science (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 40 fractional works · 87.6% of its workEngineering: 21 fractional works · 45.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 8 fractional works · 16.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 12.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 13 fractional works · 27.7% of its workRadiation: 5 fractional works · 11.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 6.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 3 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 5.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMetals and Alloys: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKTechSource(United States)45fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences8%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2145.8%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1327.7%
    3. Computer Science35.8%
    4. Materials Science24.4%
    5. Chemistry11.4%
    6. Energy01.1%
    7. Environmental Science01.1%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    1. Social Sciences12.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities11.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting01.1%
    5. Decision Sciences00.4%
    6. Psychology00.2%
    1. Health Professions12.2%
    2. Medicine11.2%
    1. Neuroscience00.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
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.

Immunology and Microbiology: 0.85× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 5.78× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.90× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.52× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.79× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 8.61× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.33× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 3.25× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 4.85× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.77× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.74× 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, 8.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 13 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy8.61×1 works
  2. Neuroscience5.78×0 works
  3. Decision Sciences4.85×0 works
  4. Arts and Humanities3.25×0 works
  5. Materials Science1.79×0 works
  6. Engineering1.52×1 works
  7. Health Professions1.33×0 works
  8. Computer Science0.90×0 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.85×0 works
  10. Psychology0.77×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.74×0 works
  12. Environmental Science0.71×0 works
  13. Medicine0.09×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, T.E. Ward lead among researchers whose main affiliation is TechSource (United States).

  1. 1 T.E. Ward United States · #4,664,419 worldwide 1 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at TechSource (United States)

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

The most cited paper from TechSource (United States) is "Distribution of Hydrogen in the Near Surface of Mars: Evidence for Subsurface Ice Deposits" (William V. Boynton et al., 2002), with 934 citations. Next come "Volatile and Organic Compositions of Sedimentary Rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars" (405) and "Concentration of H, Si, Cl, K, Fe, and Th in the low‐ and mid‐latitude regions of Mars" (351).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Distribution of Hydrogen in the Near Surface of Mars: Evidence for Subsurface Ice Deposits William V. Boynton et al. · Science 5 Jul 2002 934
2 Volatile and Organic Compositions of Sedimentary Rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars D. W. Ming et al. · Science Open access449 authors 10 Dec 2013 405
3 Concentration of H, Si, Cl, K, Fe, and Th in the low‐ and mid‐latitude regions of Mars William V. Boynton et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Dec 2007 351
4 The Mars Odyssey Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Instrument Suite William V. Boynton et al. · Space Science Reviews 2004 332
5 Elemental Mapping by Dawn Reveals Exogenic H in Vesta’s Regolith Thomas H. Prettyman, David W. Mittlefehldt, N. Yamashita et al. · Science 21 Sep 2012 229
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at TechSource (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Negative Ion Sources, Superconducting Cavities, Neutron Imaging, Small-Angle Scattering, Free-Electron Lasers, X-Ray, Nb3Sn Conductor and Superconducting Magnets.

▲ 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 30 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Negative Ion Sources6▲ 265×1 topic
  2. Superconducting Cavities6▲ 265×1 topic
  3. Neutron Imaging4▲ 103×1 topic
  4. Small-Angle Scattering4▲ 64×1 topic
  5. Free-Electron Lasers3▲ 269×1 topic
  6. X-Ray3▲ 269×1 topic
  7. Lithium-ion Batteries2▲ 22×2 topics
  8. Nb3Sn Conductor2▲ 138×1 topic
  9. Superconducting Magnets2▲ 138×1 topic
  10. Battery Management Systems2▲ 59×1 topic
  11. Thermal Runaway2▲ 59×1 topic
  12. Energy Storage2▲ 8.3×3 topics
  13. Mars2▲ 68×1 topic
  14. Martian Surface2▲ 68×1 topic
  15. High Power Terahertz Sources1▲ 97×1 topic
  16. Hydrogen Embrittlement1▲ 27×2 topics
  17. Vacuum Electronics1▲ 97×1 topic
  18. Accident Tolerant Fuels1▲ 52×1 topic
  19. Cathode Materials1▲ 12×2 topics
  20. Fuel Cladding1▲ 52×1 topic
  21. Molten Salt1▲ 60×1 topic
  22. Nuclear Reactor1▲ 60×1 topic
  23. Rechargeable Batteries1▲ 18×2 topics
  24. Solar System Abundances1▲ 30×1 topic
  25. Terrestrial Planets1▲ 30×1 topic
  26. Turbulence1▲ 18×2 topics
  27. Tokamak1▲ 56×1 topic
  28. Transport1▲ 48×1 topic
  29. Inorganic Scintillators1▲ 54×1 topic
  30. Scintillation Detectors1▲ 54×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022-now: Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Particle accelerators and beam dynamics and Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques.

Linguistic Studies and L…0Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition: 0 fractional worksTactile and Sensory Inte…0Tactile and Sensory Interactions: 0 fractional worksParticle accelerators and beam dynamics: 0 fractional worksRadioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques: 0 fractional worksNeutrino Physics Research: 0 fractional worksSpacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies: 0 fractional worksParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers: 0 fractional worksScientific Measurement a…0Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation: 0 fractional worksSuperconducting Materials and Applications: 0 fractional worksParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 0 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceCognitive NeuroscienceAerospace EngineeringRadiation4 others

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

  1. 1 Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  2. 2 Tactile and Sensory Interactions Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  3. 3 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques Radiation 0 works
  5. 5 Neutrino Physics Research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 0 works
  6. 6 Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 0 works
  9. 9 Superconducting Materials and Applications Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 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 available32.9%not open67.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.5%domestic only75.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 TechSource (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000093% in 2023.

0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%TechSource (United States)0.000013% in 20241990200020102020

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

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