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Research in Albany

Science Explorer records 6 research institutions in Albany, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Western Regional Research Center and Pacific Southwest Research Station.

Research institutions
6
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
5.4k
▼ 11% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
22.0%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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
1Western Regional Research CenterGovernment institution 3,295 #12,457
2Pacific Southwest Research StationGovernment institution 1,621 #16,571
3Plant Gene Expression CenterGovernment institution 394 #6,646 all time
4Seismological Society of AmericaNonprofit 76 not ranked
5Agricultural Research Service - Pacific West AreaGovernment institution 18 not ranked
6Alameda County LibraryResearch facility 1 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. 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.

Western Regional Research Center: 61.0%Pacific Southwest Research Station: 30.0%Plant Gene Expression Center: 7.3%Seismological Society of America: 1.4%2 others listed: 0.4%61%largest
Western Regional Research Center3,295 · 61.0%Pacific Southwest Research Station1,621 · 30.0%Plant Gene Expression Center394 · 7.3%Seismological Society of America76 · 1.4%2 others listed19 · 0.4%

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

What is Albany strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Albany is most concentrated in Global and Planetary Change and Ecology (14.7× the world share in Global and Planetary Change).

  1. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 34.0 works15×
  2. EcologySubfield · 25.0 works10×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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.

Which keywords describe research in Albany?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Ecosystem Resilience, Remote Sensing, Biodiversity, Soil Properties, Forest Fires and Wildfire Activity.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Change64▲ 7.8×53 topics
  2. Invasive Species25▲ 19×14 topics
  3. Ecosystem Resilience24▲ 55×5 topics
  4. Remote Sensing24▲ 6.5×13 topics
  5. Biodiversity21▲ 9.3×14 topics
  6. Soil Properties20▲ 37×3 topics
  7. Forest Fires18▲ 134×1 topic
  8. Wildfire Activity18▲ 134×1 topic
  9. Conservation17▲ 13×14 topics
  10. Epidemiology16▲ 1.31×28 topics
  11. Biodiversity Conservation14▲ 13×9 topics
  12. Ecosystem14▲ 43×2 topics
  13. Ecosystem Services12▲ 9.8×7 topics
  14. Biological Invasions11▲ 40×3 topics
  15. Habitat Fragmentation11▲ 16×4 topics
  16. Global Change10▲ 13×4 topics
  17. Nanoparticles10▲ 2.5×13 topics
  18. Resilience10▲ 6.5×4 topics
  19. Gene Expression8▲ 4.5×9 topics
  20. Land Use Change8▲ 9.0×4 topics
  21. Genomics8▲ 8.7×10 topics
  22. Antioxidant Activity8▲ 4.0×20 topics
  23. Sagebrush7▲ 159×1 topic
  24. Wildlife Habitat7▲ 159×1 topic
  25. Species Richness7▲ 36×2 topics
  26. Global Warming7▲ 5.6×8 topics
  27. Community Ecology7▲ 27×1 topic
  28. Functional Diversity7▲ 41×1 topic
  29. Biomass Estimation7▲ 14×3 topics
  30. Genome Sequencing6▲ 14×8 topics
  31. Pathogenicity6▲ 32×5 topics
  32. Food Safety6▲ 7.2×5 topics
  33. Health Benefits6▲ 6.3×8 topics
  34. Microbiome6▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Polyphenols6▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Drought6▲ 20×3 topics
  37. Model Evaluation6▲ 16×2 topics
  38. Evapotranspiration6▲ 25×2 topics
  39. Aboveground Biomass6▲ 21×2 topics
  40. Population Dynamics6▲ 7.3×9 topics

What research is done in Albany?

  1. 1 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 18 works
  2. 2 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 7 works
  3. 3 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 7 works
  4. 4 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 5 works
  5. 5 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 4 works
  6. 6 Bacteriophages and microbial interactions Ecology 4 works
  7. 7 Transgenic Plants and Applications Biotechnology 4 works
  8. 8 Forest Insect Ecology and Management Ecology 4 works
  9. 9 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  10. 10 Urban Green Space and Health Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 3 works

Research output over time

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