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Research in Ashburn

Science Explorer records 8 research institutions in Ashburn, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Janelia Research Campus and Cordoba University.

Research institutions
8
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.8k
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
21.2%
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 Ashburn?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Cordoba UniversityUniversity 1,667 #10,775
2Janelia Research CampusResearch facility 933 #1,384
3Prototype Productions (United States)Company 66 not ranked
4Perceptive Innovations (United States)Company 53 not ranked
5National Recreation and Park AssociationNonprofit 38 not ranked
6SteelCloud (United States)Company 29 not ranked
7Vidrio (United States)Company 4 not ranked
8Airak (United States)Company 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.

Cordoba University: 59.7%Janelia Research Campus: 33.4%Prototype Productions (United States): 2.4%Perceptive Innovations (United States): 1.9%4 others listed: 2.6%60%largest
Cordoba University1,667 · 59.7%Janelia Research Campus933 · 33.4%Prototype Productions (United States)66 · 2.4%Perceptive Innovations (United States)53 · 1.9%4 others listed72 · 2.6%

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

What is Ashburn strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ashburn is most concentrated in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics (11.6× the world share in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience).

  1. Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 23.0 works12×
  2. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 21.5 works7.7×
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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 Ashburn?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Corpus Linguistics, Neuronal Circuits, Education, Insulin Signaling, Metabolic Regulation, History and Neuroscience.

▲ 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. Globalization29▲ 2.3×45 topics
  2. Education25▲ 2.3×41 topics
  3. Sustainability22▲ 1.45×39 topics
  4. Climate Change21▲ 1.24×49 topics
  5. History16▲ 3.6×17 topics
  6. Corpus Linguistics15▲ 11×5 topics
  7. Neuronal Circuits14▲ 29×2 topics
  8. Genetics13▲ 3.0×15 topics
  9. Literature13▲ 3.7×15 topics
  10. Gene Expression12▲ 3.2×17 topics
  11. Insulin Signaling12▲ 23×3 topics
  12. Image Processing12▲ 4.3×5 topics
  13. Neuroscience11▲ 6.0×8 topics
  14. Metabolic Regulation11▲ 10×4 topics
  15. Gender11▲ 3.1×13 topics
  16. Cultural Heritage10▲ 3.0×13 topics
  17. Social Movements10▲ 5.2×15 topics
  18. Sociolinguistics10▲ 8.1×6 topics
  19. Drosophila10▲ 36×2 topics
  20. Society10▲ 7.7×12 topics
  21. Olfactory System9▲ 23×2 topics
  22. Working Memory9▲ 16×3 topics
  23. Cortical Networks9▲ 24×1 topic
  24. Ionotropic Receptors9▲ 55×1 topic
  25. Memory Formation9▲ 55×1 topic
  26. Neuronal Oscillations9▲ 19×2 topics
  27. Synchronization9▲ 12×1 topic
  28. Genomics8▲ 4.5×8 topics
  29. Translation8▲ 7.5×5 topics
  30. Language Policy8▲ 8.6×3 topics
  31. Multilingualism8▲ 7.2×3 topics
  32. Bilingual Education8▲ 10.0×2 topics
  33. Microscopy8▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Cross-Cultural Communication7▲ 12×2 topics
  35. Super-Resolution Imaging7▲ 35×2 topics
  36. Cellular Imaging7▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Bioimage Analysis6▲ 28×1 topic
  38. Fluorescent Proteins6▲ 46×1 topic
  39. High-Content Screening6▲ 28×1 topic
  40. Single-Molecule Imaging6▲ 46×1 topic

What research is done in Ashburn?

  1. 1 Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 9 works
  2. 2 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 9 works
  3. 3 Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques Biophysics 6 works
  4. 4 Cell Image Analysis Techniques Biophysics 6 works
  5. 5 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 6 works
  6. 6 linguistics and terminology studies Language and Linguistics 5 works
  7. 7 Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 5 works
  8. 8 Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior Genetics 5 works
  9. 9 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 5 works
  10. 10 Photoreceptor and optogenetics research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 4 works

Research output over time

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