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Research in California

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in California, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are California University of Pennsylvania.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
25k
▼ 11% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
14.8%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in California?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1California University of PennsylvaniaUniversity 25,080 #1,551

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.

What is California strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in California is most concentrated in General Decision Sciences, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science (45.8× the world share in General Decision Sciences).

  1. General Decision SciencesSubfield · 23.6 works46×
  2. ClassicsSubfield · 21.3 works13×
  3. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 30.2 works7.2×
  4. AnthropologySubfield · 44.8 works5.9×
  5. HistorySubfield · 42.4 works4.9×
← 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.

Which keywords describe research in California?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, History, Nationalism, Religion, Culture, Identity, Society and Gender.

▲ 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. Globalization143▲ 2.7×97 topics
  2. Machine Learning100◆ 1.12×65 topics
  3. Deep Learning94◆ 1.02×67 topics
  4. History83▲ 4.3×40 topics
  5. Epidemiology81▼ 0.75×98 topics
  6. Neural Networks74▲ 1.77×31 topics
  7. Nationalism68▲ 5.4×29 topics
  8. Religion67▲ 5.2×28 topics
  9. Identity67▲ 3.4×53 topics
  10. Culture61▲ 4.2×30 topics
  11. Gender60▲ 4.1×40 topics
  12. Mental Health59▲ 1.48×36 topics
  13. Literature58▲ 3.9×43 topics
  14. Education58▲ 1.24×59 topics
  15. Colonialism56▲ 4.4×37 topics
  16. Human Rights56▲ 2.0×47 topics
  17. Innovation49▲ 1.72×39 topics
  18. Philosophy46▲ 3.8×28 topics
  19. Society45▲ 8.6×21 topics
  20. Feminism45▲ 5.8×18 topics
  21. Emotion42▲ 7.5×12 topics
  22. Neoliberalism40▲ 4.2×23 topics
  23. Politics38▲ 5.2×20 topics
  24. Decision Making34▲ 4.2×6 topics
  25. Ethics34▲ 2.6×31 topics
  26. Democracy32▲ 3.3×19 topics
  27. Corpus Linguistics30▲ 5.0×5 topics
  28. Intersectionality29▲ 5.8×13 topics
  29. Secularism26▲ 9.3×5 topics
  30. Empire25▲ 11×5 topics
  31. Topic Modeling25▲ 6.3×2 topics
  32. Machine Translation24▲ 5.4×2 topics
  33. Cosmopolitanism24▲ 8.2×8 topics
  34. Risk Aversion24▲ 47×1 topic
  35. Time Discounting24▲ 47×1 topic
  36. Semantic Similarity22▲ 6.6×1 topic
  37. Word Representation22▲ 6.6×1 topic
  38. Neural Machine Translation21▲ 8.2×1 topic
  39. Statistical Machine Translation21▲ 8.2×1 topic
  40. Middle East20▲ 12×2 topics

What research is done in California?

Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics: 24 fractional worksTopic Modeling22Topic Modeling: 22 fractional worksNatural Language Process…21Natural Language Processing Techniques: 21 fractional worksIslamic Studies and Hist…17Islamic Studies and History: 17 fractional worksMedieval Literature and History: 13 fractional worksSleep and related disorders: 12 fractional worksHistorical Studies and S…12Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 12 fractional worksOnline Learning and Analytics: 11 fractional worksChinese history and philosophy: 11 fractional worksMultilingual Education a…10Multilingual Education and Policy: 10 fractional works
General Decision SciencesArtificial IntelligencePolitical Science and International RelationsClassics5 others

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

  1. 1 Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics General Decision Sciences 24 works
  2. 2 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  3. 3 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 21 works
  4. 4 Islamic Studies and History Political Science and International Relations 17 works
  5. 5 Medieval Literature and History Classics 13 works
  6. 6 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 12 works
  7. 7 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 12 works
  8. 8 Online Learning and Analytics Computer Science Applications 11 works
  9. 9 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  10. 10 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 10 works

Research output over time

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