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Research in Annapolis

Science Explorer records 28 research institutions in Annapolis, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are St. John's College, Anne Arundel Medical Center and Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Research institutions
28
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
13k
▼ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
168k
13.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
12.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Annapolis

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 Annapolis?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1St. John's CollegeUniversity 2,381 #14,977
2Maryland Department of Natural ResourcesFunder 939 #18,075
3Anne Arundel Medical CenterHospital / health system 597 #16,286
4Entomological Society of AmericaInstitution 229 #30,450 all time
5Chesapeake Bay ProgramInstitution 194 #29,606 all time
6Comtech Telecommunications (United States)Company 151 #30,503 all time
7National Socio-Environmental Synthesis CenterResearch facility 142 #24,520 all time
8Energy Concepts (United States)Company 106 not ranked
9Anne Arundel County Public SchoolsUniversity 95 not ranked
10Colfax (United States)Company 55 not ranked
11Technology Assessment and Transfer (United States)Company 50 not ranked
12American Academy of Environmental Engineers and ScientistsInstitution 37 not ranked
13Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans FoundationNonprofit 31 not ranked
14Maryland Brain, Spine + PainHospital / health system 16 not ranked
15Maryland Department of Legislative ServicesGovernment institution 12 not ranked
16SimQuest (United States)Company 11 not ranked
17AbTech (United States)Company 9 not ranked
18Chesapeake Bay FoundationNonprofit 8 not ranked
19Maryland State ArchivesArchive 6 not ranked
20Anne Arundel Economic Development (United States)Company 5 not ranked
21Oyster Recovery PartnershipNonprofit 3 not ranked
22Embedded Research Solutions (United States)Company 3 not ranked
23Historic Annapolis FoundationArchive 2 not ranked
24Chesapeake Bay TrustNonprofit 2 not ranked
25Cardinal Engineering (United States)Company 1 not ranked
26Maryland Commission on African American History and CultureGovernment institution 1 not ranked
27Maryland State Office Of The GovernorGovernment institution 1 not ranked
28Banneker Douglass MuseumArchive 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.

St. John's College: 46.8%Maryland Department of Natural Resources: 18.5%Anne Arundel Medical Center: 11.7%Entomological Society of America: 4.5%23 others listed: 18.5%47%largest
St. John's College2,381 · 46.8%Maryland Department of Natural Resources939 · 18.5%Anne Arundel Medical Center597 · 11.7%Entomological Society of America229 · 4.5%23 others listed941 · 18.5%

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

Which fields of science does Annapolis work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research in Annapolis is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (21%), Medicine (18%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 779 fractional works · 50.8% of its workEngineering: 329 fractional works · 21.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 65 fractional works · 4.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 50 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 40 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 33 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 26 fractional works · 1.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 26 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 24 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 16 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedia Technology: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 114 fractional works · 7.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 35 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 20 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 16 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 104 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEcology: 26 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 23 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 60 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 17 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 14 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiation: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 56 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOceanography: 27 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 13 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 40 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematical Physics: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 34 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 17 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomaterials: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 21 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpectroscopy: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 362 fractional works · 23.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 177 fractional works · 11.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 55 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 49 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAnthropology: 16 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLaw: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 98 fractional works · 6.4% of its workHistory: 19 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 18 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClassics: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 32 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 32 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 25 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 300 fractional works · 19.5% of its workMedicine: 270 fractional works · 17.6% of its workSurgery: 87 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 19 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 18 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOncology: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 25 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 13 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 94 fractional works · 6.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 22 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 30 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAnnapolis1,535fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences51%Health Sciences20%Social Sciences24%

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. Engineering32921.5%
    2. Computer Science1147.5%
    3. Environmental Science1046.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy603.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences563.7%
    6. Mathematics402.6%
    7. Materials Science342.2%
    8. Chemistry211.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering140.9%
    10. Energy60.4%
    1. Social Sciences17711.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities986.4%
    3. Psychology322.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance322.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting151.0%
    6. Decision Sciences100.6%
    1. Medicine27017.6%
    2. Health Professions251.6%
    3. Nursing20.1%
    4. Dentistry20.1%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology463.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences302.0%
    3. Neuroscience100.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology60.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Annapolis strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Annapolis is most concentrated in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering (6.1× the world share in Oceanography).

  1. OceanographySubfield · 22.8 works6.1×
  2. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 34.4 works5.0×
← 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: 0.43× its world share, 27 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.55× its world share, 39 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.36× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.78× its world share, 13 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.94× its world share, 20 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.00× its world share, 103 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.26× its world share, 47 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.49× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.44× its world share, 288 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.39× its world share, 92 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.61× its world share, 28 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.17× its world share, 34 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.72× its world share, 51 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.65× its world share, 23 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.88× its world share, 225 worksMedicineNursing: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.11× its world share, 81 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.28× its world share, 12 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.74× its world share, 10 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.04× its world share, 30 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.67× its world share, 27 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 161 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemical Engineering, 2.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemical Engineering2.78×13 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.26×47 works
  3. Mathematics2.17×34 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.11×81 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.72×51 works
  6. Engineering1.44×288 works
  7. Environmental Science1.39×92 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.04×30 works
  9. Computer Science1.00×103 works
  10. Social Sciences0.95×161 works
  11. Chemistry0.94×20 works
  12. Medicine0.88×225 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.74×10 works
  14. Psychology0.67×27 works
  15. Health Professions0.65×23 works
  16. Materials Science0.61×28 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.55×39 works
  18. Energy0.49×6 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.43×27 works
  20. Neuroscience0.36×8 works
  21. Veterinary0.36×1 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×4 works
  23. Nursing0.29×2 works
  24. Business, Management and Accounting0.28×12 works
  25. Dentistry0.24×2 works
  26. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.23×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Annapolis?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, History, Society, Gender, Complications, Revision Surgery, Total Hip Replacement and Literature.

▲ 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 Change75▲ 1.79×75 topics
  2. Epidemiology56◆ 0.92×100 topics
  3. Machine Learning49◆ 0.96×57 topics
  4. Globalization40▲ 1.32×46 topics
  5. History36▲ 3.3×28 topics
  6. Gender30▲ 3.7×32 topics
  7. Identity29▲ 2.6×34 topics
  8. Complications28▲ 3.7×15 topics
  9. Remote Sensing28▲ 1.49×28 topics
  10. Literature27▲ 3.2×25 topics
  11. Culture27▲ 3.3×18 topics
  12. Nationalism24▲ 3.5×23 topics
  13. Colonialism24▲ 3.2×26 topics
  14. Religion23▲ 3.3×18 topics
  15. Society22▲ 7.5×12 topics
  16. Ethics20▲ 2.5×20 topics
  17. Heat Transfer19▲ 2.6×13 topics
  18. Revision Surgery19▲ 9.8×2 topics
  19. Total Hip Replacement19▲ 9.8×2 topics
  20. Invasive Species18▲ 2.8×17 topics
  21. Path Planning18▲ 9.1×3 topics
  22. Collision Avoidance17▲ 6.0×4 topics
  23. Patient Satisfaction16▲ 3.4×8 topics
  24. Flight Control16▲ 34×2 topics
  25. Sea-Level Rise16▲ 8.8×5 topics
  26. Multi-Agent Systems15▲ 5.3×5 topics
  27. Sediment Transport14▲ 5.9×4 topics
  28. Arthroplasty14▲ 9.3×2 topics
  29. Channel Modeling13▲ 7.2×6 topics
  30. Autonomous Aerial Refueling13▲ 65×1 topic
  31. Vision-Based Sensor13▲ 65×1 topic
  32. Engineering Education13▲ 9.6×5 topics
  33. Maritime Transportation13▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Outcomes12▲ 9.5×1 topic
  35. Total Knee Replacement12▲ 12×1 topic
  36. Acoustic Communications12▲ 18×1 topic
  37. Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks12▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Human Factors11▲ 9.0×3 topics
  39. Wave Modeling11▲ 14×2 topics
  40. Marine Sediments10▲ 11×2 topics

What research is done in Annapolis?

Aerospace Engineering an…11Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems: 11 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty …11Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 11 fractional worksUnderwater Vehicles and Communication Systems: 9 fractional worksExperimental Learning in Engineering: 9 fractional worksUnderwater Acoustics Research: 8 fractional worksOptical Wireless Communication Technologies: 8 fractional worksMaritime Navigation and Safety: 8 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Dynam…7Coastal and Marine Dynamics: 7 fractional worksMedieval Literature and History: 7 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 7 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringSurgeryOcean EngineeringMedia Technology4 others

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

  1. 1 Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems Aerospace Engineering 11 works
  2. 2 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 11 works
  3. 3 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 9 works
  4. 4 Experimental Learning in Engineering Media Technology 9 works
  5. 5 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 8 works
  6. 6 Optical Wireless Communication Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 8 works
  7. 7 Maritime Navigation and Safety Ocean Engineering 8 works
  8. 8 Coastal and Marine Dynamics Earth-Surface Processes 7 works
  9. 9 Medieval Literature and History Classics 7 works
  10. 10 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 7 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 counting10%20%30%Annapolis10.9% 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 26.2% in 2016.

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