National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Short name
NIST
Country, city
USA, Gaithersburg
Publications
57 428
Citations
2 270 991
h-index
474
Top-3 journals
Top-3 organizations
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Colorado Boulder (4732 publications)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1055 publications)
Top-3 foreign organizations
Institut Laue-Langevin
Institut Laue-Langevin (245 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (226 publications)
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Since 1903

Total publications
57428
Total citations
2270991
Citations per publication
39.55
Average publications per year
466.89
Average authors per publication
4.77
h-index
474
Metrics description
h-index
A scientist has an h-index if h of his N publications are cited at least h times each, while the remaining (N - h) publications are cited no more than h times each.

Top-30

Fields of science

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General Physics and Astronomy, 10053, 8.57%
General Physics and Astronomy
10053 publications, 8.57%
Condensed Matter Physics, 7991, 6.81%
Condensed Matter Physics
7991 publications, 6.81%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 6256, 5.33%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
6256 publications, 5.33%
General Materials Science, 5164, 4.4%
General Materials Science
5164 publications, 4.4%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 4588, 3.91%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
4588 publications, 3.91%
Materials Chemistry, 4169, 3.55%
Materials Chemistry
4169 publications, 3.55%
General Chemistry, 4128, 3.52%
General Chemistry
4128 publications, 3.52%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 4117, 3.51%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
4117 publications, 3.51%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 3911, 3.33%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
3911 publications, 3.33%
General Engineering, 3557, 3.03%
General Engineering
3557 publications, 3.03%
Instrumentation, 3317, 2.83%
Instrumentation
3317 publications, 2.83%
Mechanical Engineering, 2670, 2.28%
Mechanical Engineering
2670 publications, 2.28%
Mechanics of Materials, 2499, 2.13%
Mechanics of Materials
2499 publications, 2.13%
Surfaces, Coatings and Films, 2089, 1.78%
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
2089 publications, 1.78%
Biochemistry, 1943, 1.66%
Biochemistry
1943 publications, 1.66%
Spectroscopy, 1877, 1.6%
Spectroscopy
1877 publications, 1.6%
Multidisciplinary, 1699, 1.45%
Multidisciplinary
1699 publications, 1.45%
Analytical Chemistry, 1629, 1.39%
Analytical Chemistry
1629 publications, 1.39%
General Medicine, 1594, 1.36%
General Medicine
1594 publications, 1.36%
Polymers and Plastics, 1579, 1.35%
Polymers and Plastics
1579 publications, 1.35%
General Chemical Engineering, 1427, 1.22%
General Chemical Engineering
1427 publications, 1.22%
Organic Chemistry, 1361, 1.16%
Organic Chemistry
1361 publications, 1.16%
Surfaces and Interfaces, 1305, 1.11%
Surfaces and Interfaces
1305 publications, 1.11%
Ceramics and Composites, 1283, 1.09%
Ceramics and Composites
1283 publications, 1.09%
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 1190, 1.01%
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
1190 publications, 1.01%
Inorganic Chemistry, 1057, 0.9%
Inorganic Chemistry
1057 publications, 0.9%
Metals and Alloys, 1040, 0.89%
Metals and Alloys
1040 publications, 0.89%
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 1024, 0.87%
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
1024 publications, 0.87%
Radiation, 996, 0.85%
Radiation
996 publications, 0.85%
Computer Science Applications, 958, 0.82%
Computer Science Applications
958 publications, 0.82%
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Journals

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Journal of Chemical Physics
2576 publications, 4.49%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
1913 publications, 3.33%
Physical Review B
1858 publications, 3.24%
Physical Review A
1740 publications, 3.03%
Physical Review Letters
1650 publications, 2.87%
Journal of Applied Physics
1532 publications, 2.67%
Review of Scientific Instruments
1152 publications, 2.01%
Applied Physics Letters
956 publications, 1.66%
Science
927 publications, 1.61%
MRS Proceedings
637 publications, 1.11%
Metrologia
579 publications, 1.01%
Applied Optics
568 publications, 0.99%
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
509 publications, 0.89%
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
488 publications, 0.85%
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
440 publications, 0.77%
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
436 publications, 0.76%
Journal of the Optical Society of America
415 publications, 0.72%
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
413 publications, 0.72%
ECS Meeting Abstracts
388 publications, 0.68%
International Journal of Thermophysics
387 publications, 0.67%
Macromolecules
386 publications, 0.67%
Physics Today
375 publications, 0.65%
Analytical Chemistry
345 publications, 0.6%
Chemical Physics Letters
342 publications, 0.6%
Optics Letters
339 publications, 0.59%
Optics Express
325 publications, 0.57%
Langmuir
316 publications, 0.55%
Astrophysical Journal
308 publications, 0.54%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
305 publications, 0.53%
Nature
293 publications, 0.51%
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Publishers

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Elsevier
10907 publications, 18.99%
AIP Publishing
7413 publications, 12.91%
Springer Nature
6359 publications, 11.07%
American Physical Society (APS)
6011 publications, 10.47%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
4163 publications, 7.25%
Wiley
3320 publications, 5.78%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2828 publications, 4.92%
Optica Publishing Group
2058 publications, 3.58%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
2011 publications, 3.5%
IOP Publishing
1784 publications, 3.11%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1022 publications, 1.78%
Taylor & Francis
854 publications, 1.49%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
792 publications, 1.38%
The Electrochemical Society
775 publications, 1.35%
Oxford University Press
571 publications, 0.99%
SAGE
532 publications, 0.93%
Cambridge University Press
522 publications, 0.91%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
493 publications, 0.86%
American Vacuum Society
469 publications, 0.82%
ASME International
436 publications, 0.76%
American Astronomical Society
392 publications, 0.68%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
285 publications, 0.5%
MDPI
251 publications, 0.44%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
231 publications, 0.4%
EDP Sciences
196 publications, 0.34%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
192 publications, 0.33%
AOAC International
150 publications, 0.26%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
149 publications, 0.26%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
99 publications, 0.17%
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
97 publications, 0.17%
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With other organizations

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University of Maryland, College Park
4842 publications, 7.89%
University of Colorado Boulder
4732 publications, 7.71%
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1055 publications, 1.72%
Argonne National Laboratory
858 publications, 1.4%
Johns Hopkins University
667 publications, 1.09%
Brookhaven National Laboratory
648 publications, 1.06%
Stanford University
560 publications, 0.91%
Los Alamos National Laboratory
558 publications, 0.91%
University of Delaware
553 publications, 0.9%
United States Naval Research Laboratory
552 publications, 0.9%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
541 publications, 0.88%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
530 publications, 0.86%
Pennsylvania State University
517 publications, 0.84%
University of California, Berkeley
513 publications, 0.84%
California Institute of Technology
490 publications, 0.8%
University of Michigan
455 publications, 0.74%
Princeton University
421 publications, 0.69%
University of Pennsylvania
413 publications, 0.67%
Cornell University
401 publications, 0.65%
University of Tennessee
400 publications, 0.65%
Goddard Space Flight Center
390 publications, 0.64%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
389 publications, 0.63%
Northwestern University
365 publications, 0.59%
Purdue University
346 publications, 0.56%
Carnegie Mellon University
341 publications, 0.56%
University of Chicago
336 publications, 0.55%
Harvard University
329 publications, 0.54%
University of Washington
322 publications, 0.52%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
318 publications, 0.52%
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
311 publications, 0.51%
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With foreign organizations

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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
280 publications, 1.32%
Institut Laue-Langevin
245 publications, 1.15%
University of Oxford
226 publications, 1.06%
University of Tokyo
209 publications, 0.98%
University of British Columbia
185 publications, 0.87%
University of Toronto
184 publications, 0.87%
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
183 publications, 0.86%
University of Cambridge
169 publications, 0.8%
Université Paris-Saclay
166 publications, 0.78%
Imperial College London
162 publications, 0.76%
Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
157 publications, 0.74%
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
156 publications, 0.73%
University College London
150 publications, 0.71%
Cardiff University
150 publications, 0.71%
ETH Zurich
139 publications, 0.65%
Paul Scherrer Institute
129 publications, 0.61%
Sorbonne University
129 publications, 0.61%
Kyoto University
126 publications, 0.59%
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
122 publications, 0.57%
Tohoku University
120 publications, 0.57%
National Taiwan University
117 publications, 0.55%
University of Waterloo
113 publications, 0.53%
University of Edinburgh
112 publications, 0.53%
Grenoble Alpes University
109 publications, 0.51%
Ruhr University Bochum
109 publications, 0.51%
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
108 publications, 0.51%
McGill University
106 publications, 0.5%
McMaster University
104 publications, 0.49%
Lund University
101 publications, 0.48%
Forschungszentrum Jülich
100 publications, 0.47%
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With other countries

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Germany, 2428, 3.06%
Germany
2428 publications, 3.06%
United Kingdom, 2215, 2.79%
United Kingdom
2215 publications, 2.79%
China, 1966, 2.48%
China
1966 publications, 2.48%
France, 1692, 2.13%
France
1692 publications, 2.13%
Canada, 1621, 2.04%
Canada
1621 publications, 2.04%
Japan, 1507, 1.9%
Japan
1507 publications, 1.9%
Republic of Korea, 836, 1.05%
Republic of Korea
836 publications, 1.05%
Australia, 832, 1.05%
Australia
832 publications, 1.05%
Italy, 803, 1.01%
Italy
803 publications, 1.01%
Russia, 626, 0.79%
Russia
626 publications, 0.79%
Netherlands, 614, 0.77%
Netherlands
614 publications, 0.77%
Switzerland, 614, 0.77%
Switzerland
614 publications, 0.77%
Spain, 557, 0.7%
Spain
557 publications, 0.7%
Sweden, 496, 0.63%
Sweden
496 publications, 0.63%
Mexico, 438, 0.55%
Mexico
438 publications, 0.55%
Poland, 427, 0.54%
Poland
427 publications, 0.54%
Belgium, 422, 0.53%
Belgium
422 publications, 0.53%
Israel, 419, 0.53%
Israel
419 publications, 0.53%
India, 410, 0.52%
India
410 publications, 0.52%
Austria, 391, 0.49%
Austria
391 publications, 0.49%
Brazil, 350, 0.44%
Brazil
350 publications, 0.44%
Denmark, 327, 0.41%
Denmark
327 publications, 0.41%
Finland, 183, 0.23%
Finland
183 publications, 0.23%
Turkey, 182, 0.23%
Turkey
182 publications, 0.23%
New Zealand, 168, 0.21%
New Zealand
168 publications, 0.21%
Norway, 156, 0.2%
Norway
156 publications, 0.2%
Singapore, 147, 0.19%
Singapore
147 publications, 0.19%
Hungary, 140, 0.18%
Hungary
140 publications, 0.18%
Czech Republic, 138, 0.17%
Czech Republic
138 publications, 0.17%
South Africa, 128, 0.16%
South Africa
128 publications, 0.16%
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  • We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
  • Statistics recalculated daily.
  • Publications published earlier than 1903 are ignored in the statistics.
  • The horizontal charts show the 30 top positions.
  • Journals quartiles values are relevant at the moment.