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U.S. Space and Rocket Center

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Research works
2
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
27
11.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
29%
world 18%
U.S. Space and Rocket Center

Not ranked overall: U.S. Space and Rocket Center 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 U.S. Space and Rocket Center work in?

In all years, 92% of research at U.S. Space and Rocket Center is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (54%), Engineering (21%), Environmental Science (12%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 91.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 54.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 20.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 12.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workALL ITS WORKU.S. Space andRocket Center2fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences92%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 3 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy154.2%
    2. Engineering020.8%
    3. Environmental Science012.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences04.2%
    1. Medicine04.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities04.2%
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.

What are the most cited papers from U.S. Space and Rocket Center?

The most cited paper from U.S. Space and Rocket Center is "The properties of optical lightning flashes and the clouds they illuminate" (Michael Jay Peterson, Wiebke Deierling, Chuntao Liu et al., 2017), with 60 citations. Next come "New Findings of Microfossils in the Orgueil Meteorite" (3) and "A memoir: From peenemünde to USA: A classic case of technology transfer" (1).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The properties of optical lightning flashes and the clouds they illuminate Michael Jay Peterson, Wiebke Deierling, Chuntao Liu et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 13 Jan 2017 60
2 New Findings of Microfossils in the Orgueil Meteorite Alexei Yu. Rozanov, Richard B. Hoover, A. K. Ryumin et al. · Paleontological Journal 2021 3
3 A memoir: From peenemünde to USA: A classic case of technology transfer Frederick I. Ordway, Werner Dahm, Konrad Dannenberg et al. · Acta Astronautica 21 Sep 2006 1
4 Extratidal Members of Segue 3 are Rare and Difficult to Confirm E. do Couto e Silva, Kevin R. Covey, K. Webster et al. · Research Notes of the AAS Open access 20 Jun 2023 0
All 4 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does U.S. Space and Rocket Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Astro and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies.

Astro and Planetary Scie…0Astro and Planetary Science: 0 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysi…0Astronomy and Astrophysical Research: 0 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and …0Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 0 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentation

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

  1. 1 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  2. 2 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 0 works
  3. 3 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  4. 4 Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  5. 5 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  6. 6 Muscle activation and electromyography studies 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 available54.1%not open45.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.9%domestic only71.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has U.S. Space and Rocket Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021.

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