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Research in Albany

Science Explorer records 8 research institutions in Albany, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Albany State University.

Research institutions
8
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
8.8k
▼ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
279k
31.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
22.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Albany

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Albany?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Albany State UniversityUniversity 8,385 #1,171
2Peanut InstituteNonprofit 229 #25,685 all time
3Phoebe Putney Memorial HospitalHospital / health system 103 not ranked
4Darton State CollegeUniversity 44 not ranked
5Albany Technical CollegeUniversity 42 not ranked
6Southwest Georgia Area Health Education CenterNonprofit 14 not ranked
7Horizons Community SolutionsNonprofit 11 not ranked
8Southwest Georgia Project for Community EducationNonprofit 0 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

Albany State University: 95.0%Peanut Institute: 2.6%Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital: 1.2%Darton State College: 0.5%3 others listed: 0.8%95%largest
Albany State University8,385 · 95.0%Peanut Institute229 · 2.6%Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital103 · 1.2%Darton State College44 · 0.5%3 others listed67 · 0.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does Albany work in?

In 2022-now, 42% of research in Albany is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (22%), Psychology (9%), Medicine (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 490 fractional works · 41.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 259 fractional works · 22.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 100 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEducation: 48 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 31 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGender Studies: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCommunication: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 106 fractional works · 9.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 34 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 29 fractional works · 2.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 20 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 17 fractional works · 1.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 51 fractional works · 4.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 31 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 26 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 385 fractional works · 32.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 90 fractional works · 7.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 31 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 80 fractional works · 6.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 29 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 73 fractional works · 6.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 28 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 56 fractional works · 4.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 46 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOceanography: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 27 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpectroscopy: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiation: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 18 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 163 fractional works · 13.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 84 fractional works · 7.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 60 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 35 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPlant Science: 22 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 31 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 19 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 136 fractional works · 11.6% of its workMedicine: 95 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 16 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 34 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 23 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAlbany1,173fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences42%

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 city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences25922.1%
    2. Psychology1069.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities514.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting312.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance262.3%
    6. Decision Sciences161.4%
    1. Environmental Science907.7%
    2. Computer Science806.8%
    3. Engineering736.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences564.7%
    5. Chemistry272.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy211.8%
    7. Materials Science181.6%
    8. Mathematics151.3%
    9. Energy50.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology847.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences353.0%
    3. Neuroscience312.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics80.7%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology50.5%
    1. Medicine958.1%
    2. Health Professions342.9%
    3. Nursing40.4%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Albany strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Albany is most concentrated in Atmospheric Science (8.9× the world share in Atmospheric Science).

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 39.3 works8.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 30 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.29× its world share, 69 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.58× its world share, 26 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.00× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.54× its world share, 24 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.88× its world share, 68 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.07× its world share, 48 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.39× its world share, 59 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.52× its world share, 75 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.46× its world share, 16 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.00× its world share, 12 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.72× its world share, 16 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.09× its world share, 29 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.41× its world share, 79 worksMedicineNursing: 0.84× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.61× its world share, 46 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.89× its world share, 29 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.50× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.07× its world share, 23 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.86× its world share, 87 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.80× its world share, 228 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.07×48 works
  2. Psychology2.86×87 works
  3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.00×7 works
  4. Social Sciences1.80×228 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.61×46 works
  6. Neuroscience1.58×26 works
  7. Chemistry1.54×24 works
  8. Environmental Science1.52×75 works
  9. Decision Sciences1.50×14 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.29×69 works
  11. Health Professions1.09×29 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.07×23 works
  13. Mathematics1.00×12 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.89×29 works
  15. Computer Science0.88×68 works
  16. Nursing0.84×4 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.72×16 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.63×30 works
  19. Veterinary0.57×1 works
  20. Materials Science0.46×16 works
  21. Medicine0.41×79 works
  22. Energy0.40×4 works
  23. Engineering0.39×59 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×4 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.22×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.11×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Albany?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Ocean Circulation, Mental Health, Hydrological Cycle, Data Assimilation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Extreme Events.

▲ 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 city'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. Climate Change63▲ 1.98×68 topics
  2. Mental Health38▲ 2.3×35 topics
  3. Deep Learning35▼ 0.86×62 topics
  4. Globalization34▲ 1.49×60 topics
  5. Machine Learning33▼ 0.84×59 topics
  6. Social Media32▲ 1.98×27 topics
  7. Global Warming32▲ 6.3×10 topics
  8. Public Health30▲ 1.74×35 topics
  9. Ocean Circulation22▲ 13×3 topics
  10. Health Effects21▲ 2.9×20 topics
  11. Depression20▲ 1.99×18 topics
  12. Hydrological Cycle19▲ 16×2 topics
  13. Greenhouse Gas Emissions19▲ 5.9×7 topics
  14. Social Capital19▲ 3.1×16 topics
  15. Data Assimilation17▲ 8.9×4 topics
  16. Identity17▲ 2.0×30 topics
  17. Social Support16▲ 2.6×13 topics
  18. Extreme Events16▲ 15×2 topics
  19. Gender16▲ 2.5×31 topics
  20. Climate Modeling15▲ 17×1 topic
  21. Precipitation Extremes15▲ 17×1 topic
  22. Resilience15▲ 2.6×13 topics
  23. Social Interaction15▲ 3.3×10 topics
  24. Boundary Layer14▲ 9.4×2 topics
  25. Probabilistic Forecasting14▲ 6.1×3 topics
  26. Well-being14▲ 3.0×12 topics
  27. Emotion Regulation14▲ 3.6×8 topics
  28. Neuroscience13▲ 3.7×14 topics
  29. Air Quality13▲ 5.9×4 topics
  30. Ensemble Kalman Filter13▲ 11×2 topics
  31. Convective Parameterization13▲ 19×1 topic
  32. Mesoscale Modeling13▲ 19×1 topic
  33. Sea Level Rise11▲ 7.5×3 topics
  34. Neighborhood Effects10▲ 8.2×3 topics
  35. Community10▲ 7.0×8 topics
  36. Tropical Cyclones10▲ 14×2 topics
  37. Global Distribution10▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Developmental Trajectories9▲ 6.7×3 topics
  39. Satellite Observations9▲ 7.7×3 topics
  40. Neural Basis8▲ 8.2×3 topics

What research is done in Albany?

Climate variability and models: 14 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 11 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 7 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 7 fractional worksAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques: 7 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition: 6 fractional worksDisaster Management and …6Disaster Management and Resilience: 6 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 5 fractional worksOnline and Blended Learning: 5 fractional worksPer- and polyfluoroalkyl…5Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research: 5 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceMolecular BiologyExperimental and Cognitive Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 14 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 11 works
  3. 3 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 7 works
  4. 4 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 7 works
  5. 5 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques Molecular Biology 7 works
  6. 6 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 6 works
  7. 7 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  8. 8 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 5 works
  9. 9 Online and Blended Learning Education 5 works
  10. 10 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research Environmental Chemistry 5 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Albany19.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 36.5% in 2007.

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