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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-now are Janelia Research Campus and Cordoba University.

Research institutions
8
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.8k
▲ 28% vs 2018-21
Citations
140k
50.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
21.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1952-2026
75 years on the record
Ashburn

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 Ashburn?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Cordoba UniversityUniversity 1,667 #4,497
2Janelia Research CampusResearch facility 933 #1,741
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-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.

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.

Which fields of science does Ashburn work in?

In 2022-now, 34% of research in Ashburn is in Social Sciences, 32% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (15%), Social Sciences (14%), Arts and Humanities (12%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Social Sciences: 276 fractional works · 33.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 115 fractional works · 14.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 33 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEducation: 30 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 95 fractional works · 11.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 25 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 23 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHistory: 14 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArcheology: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhilosophy: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workConservation: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClassics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 41 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 15 fractional works · 1.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 14 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 263 fractional works · 32.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 123 fractional works · 15.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 59 fractional works · 7.2% of its workGenetics: 18 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiophysics: 17 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCell Biology: 13 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStructural Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAging: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 65 fractional works · 8.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 29 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 26 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 65 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPlant Science: 20 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFood Science: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 159 fractional works · 19.5% of its workEngineering: 50 fractional works · 6.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 41 fractional works · 5.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 17 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 35 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEcology: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 120 fractional works · 14.7% of its workMedicine: 94 fractional works · 11.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSurgery: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Professions: 16 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKAshburn819fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences32%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences34%

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 Sciences11514.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities9511.6%
    3. Psychology415.0%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting141.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance70.9%
    6. Decision Sciences30.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12315.0%
    2. Neuroscience658.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences657.9%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology70.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics40.4%
    1. Engineering506.1%
    2. Computer Science415.0%
    3. Environmental Science354.2%
    4. Materials Science101.3%
    5. Chemistry81.0%
    6. Physics and Astronomy70.8%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences50.6%
    8. Mathematics30.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    10. Energy00.1%
    1. Medicine9411.5%
    2. Health Professions162.0%
    3. Veterinary40.5%
    4. Nursing30.4%
    5. Dentistry20.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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×
← 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: 1.50× its world share, 45 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.90× its world share, 98 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.81× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 5.00× its world share, 52 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.69× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.64× its world share, 32 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.40× its world share, 38 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.74× its world share, 24 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.38× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.67× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.78× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.60× its world share, 73 worksMedicineNursing: 0.85× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.04× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.21× its world share, 77 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.63× its world share, 13 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.43× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.42× its world share, 28 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.18× its world share, 95 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Neuroscience5.00×52 works
  2. Arts and Humanities4.21×77 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.90×98 works
  4. Veterinary2.04×2 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.50×45 works
  6. Psychology1.42×28 works
  7. Social Sciences1.18×95 works
  8. Nursing0.85×3 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.81×5 works
  10. Health Professions0.78×13 works
  11. Environmental Science0.74×24 works
  12. Chemistry0.69×7 works
  13. Dentistry0.67×2 works
  14. Computer Science0.64×32 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.63×13 works
  16. Medicine0.60×73 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.49×1 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.46×1 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.45×4 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.43×6 works
  21. Decision Sciences0.42×3 works
  22. Engineering0.40×38 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.38×5 works
  24. Materials Science0.36×8 works
  25. Mathematics0.29×2 works
  26. Energy0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Ashburn?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corpus Linguistics, Globalization, Neuronal Circuits, Metabolic Regulation, Education, Insulin Signaling, History 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. Globalization33▲ 2.1×46 topics
  2. Education28▲ 2.0×43 topics
  3. Climate Change27▲ 1.21×55 topics
  4. Machine Learning25◆ 0.93×47 topics
  5. Sustainability25▲ 1.24×44 topics
  6. History20▲ 3.5×19 topics
  7. Genetics19▲ 3.2×17 topics
  8. Corpus Linguistics17▲ 10×5 topics
  9. Literature17▲ 3.9×20 topics
  10. Neuronal Circuits16▲ 25×2 topics
  11. Identity15▲ 2.5×22 topics
  12. Image Processing14▲ 4.0×6 topics
  13. Gene Expression14▲ 2.8×17 topics
  14. Metabolic Regulation14▲ 10×4 topics
  15. Neuroscience14▲ 5.6×8 topics
  16. Gender14▲ 3.2×16 topics
  17. Insulin Signaling14▲ 19×3 topics
  18. Neuronal Oscillations12▲ 20×2 topics
  19. Working Memory12▲ 16×3 topics
  20. Cortical Networks12▲ 25×1 topic
  21. Synchronization12▲ 12×1 topic
  22. Sociolinguistics11▲ 7.5×7 topics
  23. Drosophila11▲ 29×2 topics
  24. Olfactory System11▲ 21×2 topics
  25. Language Policy10▲ 9.2×3 topics
  26. Society10▲ 6.6×12 topics
  27. Social Movements10▲ 4.2×16 topics
  28. Ionotropic Receptors10▲ 46×1 topic
  29. Memory Formation10▲ 46×1 topic
  30. Multilingualism10▲ 7.4×3 topics
  31. Bilingual Education10▲ 10×2 topics
  32. Translation9▲ 6.6×5 topics
  33. Microscopy9▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Super-Resolution Imaging8▲ 32×2 topics
  35. Cellular Imaging8▲ 10×2 topics
  36. Bioimage Analysis8▲ 25×1 topic
  37. Fluorescent Proteins8▲ 42×1 topic
  38. High-Content Screening8▲ 25×1 topic
  39. Single-Molecule Imaging8▲ 42×1 topic
  40. Spain8▲ 26×4 topics

What research is done in Ashburn?

Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research: 9 fractional worksNeural dynamics and brain function: 9 fractional worksAdvanced Fluorescence Mi…6Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques: 6 fractional worksCell Image Analysis Tech…6Cell Image Analysis Techniques: 6 fractional worksTranslation Studies and Practices: 6 fractional workslinguistics and terminology studies: 5 fractional worksNeuroscience and Neuroph…5Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research: 5 fractional worksInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior: 5 fractional worksMultilingual Education and Policy: 5 fractional worksPhotoreceptor and optoge…4Photoreceptor and optogenetics research: 4 fractional works
Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceCognitive NeuroscienceBiophysicsLanguage and Linguistics2 others

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

  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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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%60%Ashburn18.3% 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 45.5% in 2016.

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