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Torch Technologies (United States)

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World rank, all time
#31,258
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#6,613
of 7,310
Research works
133
▲ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.2k
16.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
21%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Torch Technologies (United States)

Which fields of science does Torch Technologies (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Torch Technologies (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (37%), Medicine (14%), Physics and Astronomy (14%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 19 fractional works · 74.3% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 36.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 6.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 6.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 13.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 13.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMetals and Alloys: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 14.2% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 14.2% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 9.8% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 8.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKTorchTechnologies…25fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences74%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences8%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering936.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy413.9%
    3. Computer Science313.1%
    4. Environmental Science12.6%
    5. Materials Science12.4%
    6. Mathematics01.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.3%
    8. Chemistry01.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering01.1%
    10. Energy00.3%
    1. Medicine414.2%
    1. Social Sciences14.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting12.6%
    3. Psychology00.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.2%
    3. Neuroscience00.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
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: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 3.12× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.68× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.45× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.53× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.69× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.48× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 6.24× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.74× its world share, 4 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 6.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy6.24×4 works
  2. Chemical Engineering3.12×0 works
  3. Engineering2.45×9 works
  4. Computer Science1.68×3 works
  5. Mathematics1.48×0 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.81×0 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.81×1 works
  8. Chemistry0.76×0 works
  9. Medicine0.74×4 works
  10. Materials Science0.69×1 works
  11. Environmental Science0.53×1 works
  12. Social Sciences0.38×1 works
  13. Energy0.36×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.31×0 works
  15. Psychology0.27×0 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.26×0 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.22×0 works
  18. Neuroscience0.20×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Torch Technologies (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Sofus A. Macskassy, Daniel W. Hahs and John Denis Macdonald lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Torch Technologies (United States).

  1. 1 Sofus A. Macskassy United States · #1,548,803 worldwide 4.8k citations · 63 works
  2. 2 Daniel W. Hahs United States · #3,014,591 worldwide 346 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 John Denis Macdonald United States · #3,662,947 worldwide 337 citations · 125 works
  4. 4 Brian M. Robinson United States · #5,030,312 worldwide 66 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Torch Technologies (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Torch Technologies (United States) is "More than Words: Quantifying Language to Measure Firms' Fundamentals" (Paul C. Tetlock, Maytal Saar‐Tsechansky, Sofus A. Macskassy, 2006), with 558 citations. Next come "Discovering users' topics of interest on twitter" (327) and "Learning object identification rules for information integration" (315).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 More than Words: Quantifying Language to Measure Firms' Fundamentals Paul C. Tetlock, Maytal Saar‐Tsechansky, Sofus A. Macskassy · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2006 558
2 Discovering users' topics of interest on twitter Matthew Michelson, Sofus A. Macskassy Conference paper 26 Oct 2010 327
3 Learning object identification rules for information integration Sheila Tejada, Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton · Information Systems Dec 2001 315
4 Learning domain-independent string transformation weights for high accuracy object identification Sheila Tejada, Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton Conference paper 23 Jul 2002 256
5 Active Learning with Multiple Views Ion Muslea, Steven Minton, Craig A. Knoblock · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research Open access 30 Oct 2006 238
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Which keywords describe research at Torch Technologies (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Big Data, NAFLD, NASH, Control Systems, Detection, Hardware-in-the-Loop and Real-Time Simulation.

▲ 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-now 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 15 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 15 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning2▲ 2.8×12 topics
  2. Big Data2▲ 6.6×5 topics
  3. Machine Learning2▲ 1.80×7 topics
  4. Renewable Energy2▲ 4.0×5 topics
  5. NAFLD1▲ 46×1 topic
  6. NASH1▲ 46×1 topic
  7. Control Systems1▲ 27×2 topics
  8. Detection1▲ 17×2 topics
  9. Hardware-in-the-Loop1▲ 199×1 topic
  10. Real-Time Simulation1▲ 199×1 topic
  11. Remote Sensing1▲ 4.0×5 topics
  12. Risk Factors1▲ 4.2×2 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Diseases1▲ 45×1 topic
  14. Image Processing1▲ 9.0×3 topics
  15. Prevention1▲ 9.3×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022-now: Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Real-time simulation and control systems, Healthcare Systems and Public Health and Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 1 fractional worksReal-time simulation and control systems: 1 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and P…1Healthcare Systems and Public Health: 1 fractional worksFlexible and Reconfigura…1Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: 1 fractional worksDigital Transformation in Industry: 1 fractional worksInfrared Target Detection Methodologies: 1 fractional worksRemote-Sensing Image Cla…1Remote-Sensing Image Classification: 1 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Science: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Measurement and Detection Methods: 0 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 0 fractional works
EpidemiologyControl and Systems EngineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringAerospace Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 1 works
  2. 2 Real-time simulation and control systems Control and Systems Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Healthcare Systems and Public Health Epidemiology 1 works
  4. 4 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  5. 5 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Infrared Target Detection Methodologies Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Remote-Sensing Image Classification Media Technology 1 works
  8. 8 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced Measurement and Detection Methods Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 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 available20.7%not open79.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.7%domestic only87.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Torch Technologies (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000078% in 2024.

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