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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

In research, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,908 of 12,888 worldwide), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (#72 of 263 worldwide) and Physics and Astronomy (#873 of 1,646 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics and Astronomy and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics — Nuclear and High Energy Physics is 97.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,088
of 28,054 · #1,716 all time
Rank in United States
#703
of 4,192
Research works
4.1k
▼ 33% vs 2013–17
Citations
66k
16.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
72%
world 28%

What is Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #2,908 of 12,888 17.9%441 #1169
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield #72 of 263 38.0%149 #67
Physics and AstronomyField #873 of 1,646 29.5%219 #524
EngineeringField #5,054 of 6,636 5.8%140 #1111

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#1,169 #2,908
  2. Nuclear and High Energy Physics#67 #72
  3. Physics and Astronomy#524 #873
  4. Engineering#1,111 #5,054
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nuclear and High Energy Physics takes 97.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 148.8 works97×
  2. Physics and AstronomyField · 218.9 works20×
  3. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 34.5 works9.9×
  4. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 38.6 works6.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.90× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.21× its world share, 46 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.91× its world share, 140 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.99× its world share, 17 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.53× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 20.19× its world share, 219 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.22× its world share, 21 worksMedicineNursing: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.96× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.45× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 20.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility?

Ranked on the composite score, Volker Burkert, David Lawrence and N. Sato lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

  1. 1 Volker Burkert United States · #6,463 worldwide 1.8k citations · 64 works
  2. 2 David Lawrence United States · #15,840 worldwide 804 citations · 91 works
  3. 3 N. Sato United States · #30,637 worldwide 1.2k citations · 110 works
  4. 4 C. E. Hyde-Wright United States · #32,689 worldwide 862 citations · 80 works
  5. 5 Jian-Wei Qiu United States · #40,049 worldwide 682 citations · 57 works
  6. 6 B. A. Raue United States · #53,217 worldwide 720 citations · 63 works
  7. 7 R. Michaels United States · #53,493 worldwide 464 citations · 56 works
  8. 8 E. Chudakov United States · #60,142 worldwide 557 citations · 50 works
  9. 9 W. K. Brooks United States · #63,353 worldwide 543 citations · 45 works
  10. 10 Y. Roblin United States · #66,853 worldwide 368 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Which keywords describe research at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Lattice QCD, Dark Matter, Particle Physics, Higgs Boson, High-Energy Collider, Renormalization Group, charmonium and QCD.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Lattice QCD63▲ 216×2 topics
  2. Dark Matter48▲ 86×4 topics
  3. Particle Physics48▲ 132×2 topics
  4. Higgs Boson43▲ 172×1 topic
  5. High-Energy Collider43▲ 172×1 topic
  6. Renormalization Group37▲ 137×2 topics
  7. QCD36▲ 213×1 topic
  8. charmonium36▲ 213×1 topic
  9. Negative Ion Sources29▲ 325×1 topic
  10. Superconducting Cavities29▲ 325×1 topic
  11. Heavy-Ion Collisions27▲ 220×1 topic
  12. Quark-Gluon Plasma27▲ 220×1 topic
  13. Synchrotron Radiation25▲ 109×2 topics
  14. Electron Acceleration24▲ 72×2 topics
  15. Free-Electron Lasers24▲ 418×1 topic
  16. X-Ray24▲ 418×1 topic
  17. Photon Counting22▲ 67×3 topics
  18. CMOS Technology21▲ 55×3 topics
  19. Detector Performance21▲ 131×2 topics
  20. X-ray Imaging20▲ 121×2 topics
  21. Particle Detectors20▲ 209×1 topic
  22. Silicon Detectors20▲ 209×1 topic
  23. Critical Current Density19▲ 155×2 topics
  24. Nb3Sn Conductor19▲ 208×1 topic
  25. Superconducting Magnets19▲ 208×1 topic
  26. Workflow Management14▲ 41×2 topics
  27. Magnetic Resonance Imaging12▲ 9.2×4 topics
  28. Distributed Systems11▲ 14×4 topics
  29. High-Performance Computing10▲ 25×2 topics
  30. Radiation Detection10▲ 46×2 topics
  31. Resource Management10▲ 12×2 topics
  32. Atomic Magnetometer10▲ 62×1 topic
  33. Hyperpolarized Gases10▲ 62×1 topic
  34. Crystal Growth9▲ 6.9×2 topics
  35. Inorganic Scintillators9▲ 59×1 topic
  36. Scintillation Detectors9▲ 59×1 topic
  37. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization9▲ 64×2 topics
  38. Spectroscopy8▲ 10×7 topics
  39. Grid Computing8▲ 49×1 topic
  40. Task Scheduling8▲ 49×1 topic

Which research topics does Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, Particle accelerators and beam dynamics and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research.

Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 43 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 36 fractional worksParticle accelerators an…29Particle accelerators and beam dynamics: 29 fractional worksHigh-Energy Particle Col…27High-Energy Particle Collisions Research: 27 fractional worksParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers: 24 fractional worksParticle Detector Development and Performance: 20 fractional worksSuperconducting Material…19Superconducting Materials and Applications: 19 fractional worksAtomic and Subatomic Physics Research: 10 fractional worksRadiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies: 9 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 8 fractional works
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsAerospace EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringBiomedical Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 43 works
  2. 2 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear and High Energy Physics 36 works
  3. 3 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Aerospace Engineering 29 works
  4. 4 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 27 works
  5. 5 Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers Electrical and Electronic Engineering 24 works
  6. 6 Particle Detector Development and Performance Nuclear and High Energy Physics 20 works
  7. 7 Superconducting Materials and Applications Biomedical Engineering 19 works
  8. 8 Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 10 works
  9. 9 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies Radiation 9 works
  10. 10 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 8 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 available71.8%not open28.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.9%domestic only82.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 33% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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