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Research in Bures-sur-Yvette

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Bures-sur-Yvette, France. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3k
▲ 9% vs 2018-21
Citations
154k
51.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
25.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Bures-sur-Yvette

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Which research institutions are in Bures-sur-Yvette?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Institut des Hautes Études ScientifiquesResearch facility 2,104 #10,013

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.

Which fields of science does Bures-sur-Yvette work in?

In 2022-now, 87% of research in Bures-sur-Yvette is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (43%), Mathematics (26%), Engineering (6%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 259 fractional works · 86.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 128 fractional works · 42.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 73 fractional works · 24.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 16 fractional works · 5.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 12 fractional works · 4.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 9 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInstrumentation: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMathematics: 78 fractional works · 26.1% of its workMathematical Physics: 26 fractional works · 8.7% of its workGeometry and Topology: 25 fractional works · 8.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 10 fractional works · 3.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 18 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 16 fractional works · 5.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 13 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBures-sur-Yvette298fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences87%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences5%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy12842.9%
    2. Mathematics7826.1%
    3. Engineering186.0%
    4. Computer Science165.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences82.5%
    6. Chemistry51.6%
    7. Materials Science31.1%
    8. Environmental Science20.8%
    9. Energy10.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences62.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities41.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.9%
    4. Decision Sciences20.6%
    5. Psychology10.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Medicine113.7%
    2. Health Professions20.5%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology72.3%
    2. Neuroscience20.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Bures-sur-Yvette strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Bures-sur-Yvette is most concentrated in Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Astronomy and Astrophysics (57.0× the world share in Mathematical Physics).

  1. Mathematical PhysicsSubfield · 25.0 works57×
  2. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 23.3 works52×
  3. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 67.5 works47×
  4. MathematicsField · 73.0 works22×
← 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 25 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: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.46× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.09× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.67× its world share, 14 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.66× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.41× its world share, 17 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 22.45× its world share, 73 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 18.91× its world share, 116 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.20× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.51× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.66× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 22.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics22.45×73 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy18.91×116 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.66×7 works
  4. Chemistry1.09×5 works
  5. Computer Science0.67×14 works
  6. Decision Sciences0.66×2 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.51×4 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.46×7 works
  9. Neuroscience0.43×2 works
  10. Energy0.43×1 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.41×0 works
  12. Engineering0.41×17 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.33×2 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×1 works
  15. Materials Science0.25×2 works
  16. Health Professions0.20×2 works
  17. Medicine0.20×11 works
  18. Social Sciences0.18×6 works
  19. Environmental Science0.16×2 works
  20. Psychology0.12×1 works
  21. Nursing0.06×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.05×0 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.03×0 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Bures-sur-Yvette?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Black Holes, Supernovae, Star Formation, Quantum Gravity, General Relativity, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Cosmic Microwave Background.

▲ 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. Black Holes18▲ 64×3 topics
  2. Supernovae13▲ 53×2 topics
  3. Star Formation13▲ 76×2 topics
  4. Quantum Gravity11▲ 45×4 topics
  5. General Relativity11▲ 54×2 topics
  6. Cosmic Microwave Background11▲ 65×1 topic
  7. Cosmological Parameters11▲ 65×1 topic
  8. Dark Energy11▲ 56×2 topics
  9. Dark Matter11▲ 31×4 topics
  10. String Theory10▲ 62×2 topics
  11. Solar System Abundances10▲ 71×1 topic
  12. Terrestrial Planets10▲ 71×1 topic
  13. Symplectic Geometry9▲ 86×2 topics
  14. Quantum Entanglement9▲ 48×2 topics
  15. Field Theories9▲ 68×1 topic
  16. Holographic9▲ 68×1 topic
  17. Cosmology9▲ 45×4 topics
  18. Accretion Disks8▲ 55×2 topics
  19. Magnetic Fields8▲ 41×2 topics
  20. Solar Wind8▲ 30×2 topics
  21. Quantum Groups8▲ 74×2 topics
  22. Exoplanets8▲ 63×1 topic
  23. Monte Carlo Simulation8▲ 13×6 topics
  24. Stellar Astrophysics8▲ 63×1 topic
  25. Mars7▲ 73×1 topic
  26. Martian Surface7▲ 73×1 topic
  27. Cohomology7▲ 60×2 topics
  28. Galaxies7▲ 80×1 topic
  29. Gravitational Waves7▲ 41×2 topics
  30. Stellar Populations7▲ 80×1 topic
  31. Fractal Dimension7▲ 63×2 topics
  32. Phase Transitions7▲ 38×2 topics
  33. Critical Phenomena6▲ 107×1 topic
  34. Dynamical Systems6▲ 32×3 topics
  35. Random Walk Algorithm6▲ 107×1 topic
  36. K-Theory6▲ 81×2 topics
  37. Tropical Geometry6▲ 64×2 topics
  38. Coronal Mass Ejections6▲ 56×1 topic
  39. Solar Dynamics Observatory6▲ 56×1 topic
  40. Knot Invariants6▲ 133×1 topic

What research is done in Bures-sur-Yvette?

Cosmology and Gravitatio…10Cosmology and Gravitation Theories: 10 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Scie…9Astro and Planetary Science: 9 fractional worksBlack Holes and Theoreti…9Black Holes and Theoretical Physics: 9 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and …7Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 7 fractional worksGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena: 7 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 6 fractional worksTheoretical and Computat…6Theoretical and Computational Physics: 6 fractional worksGeometric and Algebraic Topology: 6 fractional worksSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics: 6 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Fo…5Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 5 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsGeometry and Topology

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

  1. 1 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 10 works
  2. 2 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 9 works
  3. 3 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 9 works
  4. 4 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 7 works
  5. 5 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 7 works
  6. 6 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 6 works
  7. 7 Theoretical and Computational Physics Condensed Matter Physics 6 works
  8. 8 Geometric and Algebraic Topology Geometry and Topology 6 works
  9. 9 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 6 works
  10. 10 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 5 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%Bures-sur-Yvette24.1% 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 39.8% in 2007.

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