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Morant Echevarne, Juan JoséAuthorCasanovas Alegre, RamonAuthor or co-author of article in journal with external admissions assessment committeeSalvadó Artells, MarÇalAuthorSalvadó MAuthor

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Energy and resolution calibration of NaI(Tl) and LaBr 3(Ce) scintillators and validation of an EGS5 Monte Carlo user code for efficiency calculations

Publicated to:Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment. 675 78-83 - 2012-05-21 675(), DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.02.006

Authors: Casanovas, R; Morant, J J; Salvado, M

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Univ Rovira & Virgili, Serv Proteccio Radiol, Fac Med & Ciencies Salut, ES-43201 Reus, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Univ Rovira & Virgili, Unitat Fis Med, Fac Med & Ciencies Salut, ES-43201 Reus, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Facultat de Medicina i Ciencies de la Salut - Author

Abstract

The radiation detectors yield the optimal performance if they are accurately calibrated. This paper presents the energy, resolution and efficiency calibrations for two scintillation detectors, NaI(Tl) and LaBr 3(Ce). For the two former calibrations, several fitting functions were tested. To perform the efficiency calculations, a Monte Carlo user code for the EGS5 code system was developed with several important implementations. The correct performance of the simulations was validated by comparing the simulated spectra with the experimental spectra and reproducing a number of efficiency and activity calculations. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Efficiency calculationEfficiency calibrationEnergy calibrationLabr (ce) 3Labr3(ce)Monte carlo simulationNai(tl)Resolution calibrationScintillation gamma-ray spectrometry

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2012, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Instrumentation.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.11. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 3.02 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 25.72 (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-29, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 59
  • Scopus: 65
  • Google Scholar: 93

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-29:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 83.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 83 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Casanovas R) and Last Author (SALVADÓ USACH, MARIA TERESA).