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Tracer Technologies (United States)

In research, Tracer Technologies (United States) stands highest in Health Sciences (#14,698 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#19,592
of 22,385 · #22,304 all time
Rank in United States
#2,902
of 3,332
Research works
328
▲ 122% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.1k
6.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.91×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
56%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Tracer Technologies (United States)

What is Tracer Technologies (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
Health SciencesDomain #14,698 of 16,688 8.5%123

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

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Tracer Technologies (United States) is in Health Sciences, 18% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (54%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Engineering (7%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 75 fractional works · 55.8% of its workMedicine: 73 fractional works · 53.9% of its workSurgery: 19 fractional works · 13.9% of its workHepatology: 12 fractional works · 8.8% of its workOncology: 6 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGastroenterology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTransplantation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 24 fractional works · 18.0% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 6.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCatalysis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 24 fractional works · 17.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 fractional works · 9.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 5.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKTracerTechnologies…135fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences56%Social Sciences9%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine7353.9%
    2. Health Professions21.2%
    3. Nursing10.5%
    4. Veterinary00.2%
    1. Engineering96.9%
    2. Computer Science53.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy43.1%
    4. Environmental Science32.0%
    5. Materials Science10.8%
    6. Chemistry10.6%
    7. Chemical Engineering10.4%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    9. Energy00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology139.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology43.1%
    3. Neuroscience32.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics21.2%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.2%
    1. Social Sciences75.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities21.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.9%
    4. Psychology10.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.6%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.81× its world share, 13 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.06× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.49× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.28× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.21× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.46× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 1.39× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.44× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.80× its world share, 73 worksMedicineNursing: 1.11× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.64× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.54× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 3.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.28×2 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology3.06×4 works
  3. Medicine2.80×73 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.81×13 works
  5. Veterinary1.64×0 works
  6. Neuroscience1.49×3 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy1.39×4 works
  8. Chemical Engineering1.21×1 works
  9. Nursing1.11×1 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.54×2 works
  11. Computer Science0.48×5 works
  12. Engineering0.46×9 works
  13. Health Professions0.44×2 works
  14. Environmental Science0.40×3 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.40×1 works
  16. Social Sciences0.39×7 works
  17. Chemistry0.37×1 works
  18. Psychology0.26×1 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.24×2 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.23×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.22×1 works
  22. Energy0.18×0 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.18×1 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, Melvin Fields, Irving A. Berstein and Sun‐Shine Yuan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tracer Technologies (United States).

  1. 1 Melvin Fields United States · #3,394,952 worldwide 958 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Irving A. Berstein United States · #5,128,975 worldwide 134 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Sun‐Shine Yuan United States · #5,281,818 worldwide 165 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Tracer Technologies (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Tracer Technologies (United States) is "Phase II clinical trial of Wilms tumor 1 peptide vaccination for patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme" (Shuichi Izumoto et al., 2008), with 216 citations. Next come "Plasma arginine and citrulline kinetics in adults given adequate and arginine-free diets." (205) and "Imaging incorporation of circulating docosahexaenoic acid into the human brain using positron emission tomography" (187).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Phase II clinical trial of Wilms tumor 1 peptide vaccination for patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme Shuichi Izumoto et al. · Journal of neurosurgery 30 Apr 2008 216
2 Plasma arginine and citrulline kinetics in adults given adequate and arginine-free diets. Leticia Castillo, Thomas E. Chapman, Melchor Sánchez Mendiola et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 15 Aug 1993 205
3 Imaging incorporation of circulating docosahexaenoic acid into the human brain using positron emission tomography John C. Umhau, Weiyin Zhou, Richard E. Carson et al. · Journal of Lipid Research Open access 27 Dec 2008 187
4 Imaging Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease with Radiolabeled Arachidonic Acid and PET Giuseppe Esposito, Giampiero Giovacchini, Jeih‐San Liow et al. · Journal of Nuclear Medicine Open access 14 Aug 2008 184
5 Plasma arginine kinetics in adult man: Response to an arginine-free diet Leticia Castillo, A. M. Ajami, Steven K. Branch et al. · Metabolism 1994 83
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Tracer Technologies (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Liver Transplantation, Management, Inflammation, Diagnosis, Inflammatory Diseases, Clinical Practice Guidelines and Immune Responses.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology14▲ 2.6×20 topics
  2. Inflammation10▲ 3.3×23 topics
  3. Management7▲ 6.8×9 topics
  4. Liver Transplantation7▲ 44×3 topics
  5. Diagnosis7▲ 5.3×7 topics
  6. Chemotherapy5▲ 5.5×10 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress5▲ 2.4×10 topics
  8. Clinical Practice Guidelines5▲ 7.0×7 topics
  9. Inflammatory Diseases5▲ 19×2 topics
  10. Immune Responses5▲ 24×2 topics
  11. Microbial Communities4▲ 7.7×4 topics
  12. Treatment4▲ 2.8×10 topics
  13. Gut Microbiota4▲ 9.3×2 topics
  14. Hepatocellular Carcinoma4▲ 16×3 topics
  15. Metagenomic Analysis4▲ 27×1 topic
  16. Short-Chain Fatty Acids4▲ 27×1 topic
  17. Graft Survival4▲ 36×3 topics
  18. Coagulopathy4▲ 34×2 topics
  19. Immunosuppressive Therapy4▲ 15×2 topics
  20. Pathogenesis4▲ 5.5×3 topics
  21. Hepatic Encephalopathy4▲ 50×1 topic
  22. Liver Cirrhosis4▲ 50×1 topic
  23. Metabolic Syndrome4▲ 3.4×6 topics
  24. Autoimmune Hepatitis3▲ 121×1 topic
  25. Insulin Resistance3▲ 5.7×6 topics
  26. Neoadjuvant Therapy3▲ 11×2 topics
  27. Primary Biliary Cirrhosis3▲ 121×1 topic
  28. Tumor Microenvironment3▲ 5.6×6 topics
  29. Angiogenesis3▲ 7.1×7 topics
  30. Prognostic Factors3▲ 5.3×4 topics
  31. Probiotics3▲ 9.2×5 topics
  32. Donor Risk Index3▲ 47×1 topic
  33. Endoscopic Resection3▲ 20×2 topics
  34. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury3▲ 30×1 topic
  35. Cholangiocarcinoma3▲ 24×2 topics
  36. Hepatic Steatosis2▲ 12×2 topics
  37. NAFLD2▲ 15×1 topic
  38. NASH2▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Survival2▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Macrophages2▲ 9.0×4 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Gut microbiota and health, Liver Disease and Transplantation, Liver Diseases and Immunity and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes.

Gut microbiota and health: 4 fractional worksLiver Disease and Transplantation: 4 fractional worksLiver Diseases and Immun…3Liver Diseases and Immunity: 3 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Te…3Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 3 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 2 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma…2Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 2 fractional worksCholangiocarcinoma and G…2Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies: 2 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic O…2Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 2 fractional worksSpace Science and Extrat…2Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life: 2 fractional works
Molecular BiologyHepatologySurgeryEpidemiology2 others

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

  1. 1 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 4 works
  2. 2 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 4 works
  3. 3 Liver Diseases and Immunity Hepatology 3 works
  4. 4 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 3 works
  5. 5 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 2 works
  6. 6 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works
  7. 7 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 2 works
  8. 8 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 2 works
  10. 10 Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 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 available56.2%not open43.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.4%domestic only69.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 122% 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 Tracer Technologies (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00026% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Tracer Technologies (United States)0.00059% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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