Research in Austin
Science Explorer records 212 research institutions in Austin, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are The University of Texas at Austin, Dynamic Systems (United States) and Oracle (United States).
- Research institutions
- 212 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 187k ▼ 5% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 6.5M 34.7 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 20.0% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
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 Austin?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The University of Texas at AustinUniversity | 152,664 | #54 | |
| 2 | Perfect Harmony HealthInstitution | 3,704 | #11,328 | |
| 3 | Oracle (United States)Company | 3,385 | #6,778 | |
| 4 | Dynamic Systems (United States)Company | 2,886 | #6,342 | |
| 5 | The University of Texas SystemUniversity | 2,265 | #20,738 all time | |
| 6 | Office of the Attorney GeneralGovernment institution | 1,677 | #13,135 | |
| 7 | Silicon Labs (United States)Company | 1,427 | #15,816 | |
| 8 | Texas Department of TransportationGovernment institution | 1,387 | #7,257 | |
| 9 | American Association of Nurse PractitionersInstitution | 1,326 | #14,422 | |
| 10 | Texas Parks and Wildlife DepartmentGovernment institution | 1,119 | #17,926 | |
| 11 | St. Edward's UniversityUniversity | 907 | #12,977 | |
| 12 | Texas Department of State Health ServicesGovernment institution | 754 | #16,594 | |
| 13 | Texas Research InstituteNonprofit | 677 | #11,843 all time | |
| 14 | Texas Cardiac ArrhythmiaHospital / health system | 540 | #17,641 | |
| 15 | Koo & Associates International (United States)Company | 521 | #13,687 all time | |
| 16 | Semantic Designs (United States)Company | 467 | #9,691 all time | |
| 17 | St David's Medical CenterHospital / health system | 404 | #19,969 | |
| 18 | Austin Presbyterian Theological SeminaryUniversity | 386 | #29,745 all time | |
| 19 | EarthTech International (United States)Company | 385 | #12,857 | |
| 20 | Urology TeamInstitution | 371 | #22,972 all time | |
| 21 | National Instruments (United States)Company | 347 | #19,809 all time | |
| 22 | Cirrus Logic (United States)Company | 342 | #20,226 all time | |
| 23 | Omega Optics (United States)Company | 337 | #20,175 all time | |
| 24 | Cardiovascular Research AssociatesResearch facility | 331 | #18,352 all time | |
| 25 | Austin Community CollegeUniversity | 323 | #22,283 all time | |
| 26 | Superconductor Technologies (United States)Company | 319 | #29,614 all time | |
| 27 | Eon Corporation (United States)Company | 317 | #19,301 all time | |
| 28 | Luminex (United States)Company | 307 | #21,296 all time | |
| 29 | Texas Health and Science UniversityUniversity | 264 | #16,559 all time | |
| 30 | Austin Independent School DistrictUniversity | 258 | #18,721 | |
| 31 | Texas Medical BoardGovernment institution | 250 | #26,528 all time | |
| 32 | Seminary of the SouthwestInstitution | 248 | #25,308 all time | |
| 33 | Applied Nanotech (United States)Company | 240 | #25,892 all time | |
| 34 | Ovation FertilityHospital / health system | 216 | #27,335 all time | |
| 35 | 21st Century Technologies (United States)Company | 209 | #20,920 all time | |
| 36 | Livestrong FoundationNonprofit | 190 | #5,449 all time | |
| 37 | Texas Water Development BoardGovernment institution | 179 | #31,841 all time | |
| 38 | Pinnacle Clinical ResearchResearch facility | 179 | #10,894 all time | |
| 39 | Migrant Clinicians NetworkNonprofit | 158 | #31,324 all time | |
| 40 | Texas Fertility CenterHospital / health system | 158 | #33,901 all time | |
| 41 | Balcones Technologies (United States)Company | 154 | #25,320 all time | |
| 42 | Applied Physical Electronics (United States)Company | 146 | #30,340 all time | |
| 43 | Texas Education AgencyGovernment institution | 144 | #33,333 all time | |
| 44 | Motility (United States)Company | 137 | #32,929 all time | |
| 45 | DermResearch (United States)Company | 135 | #27,824 all time | |
| 46 | Texas Medical AssociationNonprofit | 133 | #31,759 all time | |
| 47 | Texas Commission on Environmental QualityGovernment institution | 123 | #31,347 all time | |
| 48 | Austin Diagnostic ClinicHospital / health system | 119 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Seton Healthcare FamilyNonprofit | 117 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Huston–Tillotson UniversityUniversity | 114 | not ranked | |
| 51 | International Biomedical (United States)Company | 110 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Education Service Center Region 13Nonprofit | 102 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Austin Travis County Integral CareHospital / health system | 101 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Cycorp (United States)Company | 90 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Austin Graduate School of TheologyUniversity | 86 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Asuragen (United States)Company | 83 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Texas Department of Family and Protective ServicesGovernment institution | 81 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Texas Historical CommissionInstitution | 79 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Enthought (United States)Company | 78 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Bat Conservation InternationalNonprofit | 75 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Austin work in?
In 2022-now, 45% of research in Austin is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (17%), Social Sciences (14%), Medicine (14%).
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
- Physical Sciences11k44.7%
- Engineering4,22817.1%
- Computer Science2,3219.4%
- Environmental Science1,1634.7%
- Physics and Astronomy9453.8%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences7683.1%
- Materials Science6582.7%
- Mathematics3531.4%
- Chemistry3521.4%
- Energy1540.6%
- Chemical Engineering820.3%
- Social Sciences7,07928.7%
- Social Sciences3,43613.9%
- Psychology1,2875.2%
- Arts and Humanities1,0444.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance4942.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting4661.9%
- Decision Sciences3511.4%
- Health Sciences4,10416.6%
- Medicine3,33213.5%
- Health Professions6572.7%
- Nursing760.3%
- Dentistry240.1%
- Veterinary140.1%
- Life Sciences2,46710.0%
What is Austin strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Austin is most concentrated in Music, Geophysics and Behavioral Neuroscience (4.6× the world share in Music).
- MusicSubfield · 80.2 works4.6×
- GeophysicsSubfield · 283.8 works3.8×
- Behavioral NeuroscienceSubfield · 27.8 works3.4×
- InstrumentationSubfield · 32.7 works3.1×
- Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 70.5 works3.0×
- Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 309.2 works2.8×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.02×674 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.71×806 works
- Psychology1.71×1,107 works
- Neuroscience1.57×540 works
- Arts and Humanities1.41×867 works
- Decision Sciences1.27×261 works
- Mathematics1.24×310 works
- Engineering1.19×3,794 works
- Computer Science1.13×1,866 works
- Social Sciences1.11×2,980 works
- Health Professions1.05×585 works
- Chemical Engineering0.98×73 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.97×1,094 works
- Environmental Science0.97×1,026 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.97×441 works
- Chemistry0.93×312 works
- Materials Science0.76×562 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.71×53 works
- Medicine0.70×2,862 works
- Energy0.69×134 works
- Nursing0.58×60 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.58×399 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.49×105 works
- Veterinary0.42×12 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.31×310 works
- Dentistry0.19×19 works
Which keywords describe research in Austin?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Mental Health, Climate Change, Neural Networks, Globalization, Epidemiology and Hydraulic Fracturing.
- Surface Wave
- Gas Hydrates
- Methane Oxidation
- Porous Media
- Inverse Problems
- Fracture Propagation
- CO2 Sequestration
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Colonialism
- Anxiety
- Ethics
- Gender
- Identity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Nanoparticles
- Social Media
- Sustainability
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Neural Networks
- Public Health
- Quality of Life
- Big Data
- Depression
- Social Support
- Cathode Materials
- Lithium-ion Batteries
- Nationalism
- Emotion Regulation
- Health Disparities
- Tomography
- Shale Gas Reservoirs
- Shale Gas
- Nanopores
- Anaerobic
- Seismic Noise
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
- Machine Learning917◆ 1.12×93 topics
- Deep Learning893◆ 1.05×83 topics
- Epidemiology682▼ 0.69×139 topics
- Climate Change656◆ 0.98×114 topics
- Mental Health555▲ 1.57×46 topics
- Globalization514◆ 1.06×158 topics
- Neural Networks475▲ 1.25×39 topics
- Sustainability412▼ 0.68×117 topics
- Public Health382◆ 1.06×76 topics
- Social Media359◆ 1.05×39 topics
- Quality of Life340◆ 0.96×58 topics
- Nanoparticles322◆ 1.04×44 topics
- Big Data313▲ 1.33×35 topics
- Artificial Intelligence310◆ 0.88×58 topics
- Depression303▲ 1.40×26 topics
- Identity278▲ 1.55×72 topics
- Social Support265▲ 1.99×19 topics
- Gender263▲ 1.98×52 topics
- Cathode Materials241▲ 2.5×3 topics
- Ethics210▲ 1.68×51 topics
- Lithium-ion Batteries202▲ 1.98×4 topics
- Anxiety201▲ 1.71×12 topics
- Nationalism200▲ 1.81×31 topics
- Colonialism199▲ 1.70×46 topics
- Emotion Regulation185▲ 2.4×9 topics
- Hydraulic Fracturing173▲ 6.6×2 topics
- Health Disparities171▲ 2.7×9 topics
- CO2 Sequestration168▲ 3.5×4 topics
- Tomography158▲ 3.6×5 topics
- Fracture Propagation139▲ 9.5×1 topic
- Shale Gas Reservoirs139▲ 9.5×1 topic
- Inverse Problems134▲ 4.9×4 topics
- Shale Gas132▲ 4.5×2 topics
- Porous Media129▲ 4.0×6 topics
- Nanopores114▲ 4.9×2 topics
- Methane Oxidation107▲ 5.5×2 topics
- Anaerobic102▲ 6.5×1 topic
- Gas Hydrates102▲ 6.5×1 topic
- Seismic Noise92▲ 7.8×1 topic
- Surface Wave92▲ 7.8×1 topic
What research is done in Austin?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 126 works
- 2 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 100 works
- 3 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 98 works
- 4 Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 98 works
- 5 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 92 works
- 6 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 86 works
- 7 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 72 works
- 8 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 70 works
- 9 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 68 works
- 10 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 67 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.4% in 2010.
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