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Research in Canonsburg

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Canonsburg, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Ansys (United States).

Research institutions
3
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2k
▲ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
39k
19.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
8.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Canonsburg

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 Canonsburg?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Ansys (United States)Company 1,627 #9,289
2Consol Energy (United States)Company 229 #24,858 all time
3Mylan (United States)Company 171 #23,604 all time

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 Canonsburg work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research in Canonsburg is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (54%), Computer Science (9%), Medicine (7%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 377 fractional works · 77.0% of its workEngineering: 262 fractional works · 53.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 71 fractional works · 14.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 38 fractional works · 7.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 37 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 27 fractional works · 5.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 15 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 14 fractional works · 2.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 12 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedia Technology: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArchitecture: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 44 fractional works · 9.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 12 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoftware: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 22 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 12 fractional works · 2.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInstrumentation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workChemical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 55 fractional works · 11.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 40 fractional works · 8.2% of its workMedicine: 36 fractional works · 7.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 17 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCanonsburg490fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences77%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences11%

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. Engineering26253.5%
    2. Computer Science449.0%
    3. Materials Science224.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy142.9%
    5. Environmental Science122.5%
    6. Chemical Engineering91.8%
    7. Mathematics71.4%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences30.6%
    9. Energy20.4%
    10. Chemistry10.3%
    1. Social Sciences265.2%
    2. Psychology91.8%
    3. Decision Sciences81.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting51.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities50.9%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.7%
    1. Medicine367.4%
    2. Health Professions40.7%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Nursing00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology102.0%
    2. Neuroscience30.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    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 Canonsburg strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Canonsburg is most concentrated in Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering (13.1× the world share in Computational Mechanics).

  1. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 34.3 works13×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 33.3 works6.3×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.33× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 5.34× its world share, 8 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.19× its world share, 42 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.63× its world share, 247 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.45× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.26× its world share, 20 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.26× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.32× its world share, 13 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.37× its world share, 32 worksMedicineNursing: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.46× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.59× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 22 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemical Engineering, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemical Engineering5.34×8 works
  2. Engineering3.63×247 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.46×6 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.32×13 works
  5. Materials Science1.26×20 works
  6. Mathematics1.26×7 works
  7. Computer Science1.19×42 works
  8. Psychology0.59×8 works
  9. Energy0.48×2 works
  10. Environmental Science0.45×10 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.40×3 works
  12. Social Sciences0.38×22 works
  13. Medicine0.37×32 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.37×4 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.33×8 works
  16. Neuroscience0.33×2 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.32×4 works
  18. Health Professions0.31×4 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×1 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.30×4 works
  21. Veterinary0.27×0 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.22×0 works
  23. Chemistry0.19×1 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×2 works
  25. Dentistry0.09×0 works
  26. Nursing0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Canonsburg?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heat Transfer, Large-Eddy Simulation, Chemical Kinetics, Thermal Management, Combustion Instabilities, Radial Basis Functions, Adaptive Mesh Refinement and High-Order Schemes.

▲ 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. Heat Transfer28▲ 12×14 topics
  2. Large-Eddy Simulation22▲ 24×5 topics
  3. Deep Learning19◆ 1.15×40 topics
  4. Chemical Kinetics18▲ 41×2 topics
  5. Thermal Management16▲ 9.9×7 topics
  6. Combustion Instabilities14▲ 47×2 topics
  7. Radial Basis Functions12▲ 36×2 topics
  8. Adaptive Mesh Refinement12▲ 39×2 topics
  9. High-Order Schemes12▲ 39×2 topics
  10. Premixed Combustion11▲ 57×1 topic
  11. Turbulent Flames11▲ 57×1 topic
  12. Emissions11▲ 11×4 topics
  13. Shock-Wave Interactions11▲ 55×1 topic
  14. Turbulence Modeling11▲ 55×1 topic
  15. Numerical Simulation10▲ 6.9×10 topics
  16. Power Electronics9▲ 5.7×8 topics
  17. Thermal Analysis9▲ 14×6 topics
  18. CMOS Technology8▲ 20×3 topics
  19. Combustion8▲ 25×2 topics
  20. Control Systems7▲ 8.3×5 topics
  21. High-Temperature Electronics7▲ 25×2 topics
  22. Internal Combustion Engines7▲ 33×1 topic
  23. Kinetic Theory7▲ 33×2 topics
  24. Soot Formation7▲ 33×1 topic
  25. Additive Manufacturing7▲ 4.5×7 topics
  26. Failure Analysis6▲ 14×4 topics
  27. Vibration Analysis6▲ 5.0×7 topics
  28. Induction Motors6▲ 26×2 topics
  29. Monte Carlo Simulation6▲ 6.0×6 topics
  30. Integrated Circuits6▲ 8.0×3 topics
  31. Numerical Methods6▲ 14×2 topics
  32. Fluid Dynamics6▲ 8.0×4 topics
  33. Fluid-Structure Interaction6▲ 7.5×5 topics
  34. Turbulent Flows5▲ 11×3 topics
  35. Boltzmann Equation5▲ 51×1 topic
  36. Rarefied Flows5▲ 51×1 topic
  37. Electric Motor Drives5▲ 27×1 topic
  38. Electromigration5▲ 37×2 topics
  39. Permanent Magnet Machines5▲ 27×1 topic
  40. Thermal Behavior5▲ 25×2 topics

What research is done in Canonsburg?

Combustion and flame dynamics: 11 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 9 fractional worksAdvanced Combustion Engine Technologies: 7 fractional worksElectric Motor Design and Analysis: 5 fractional worksGas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory: 5 fractional worksElectronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies: 5 fractional works3D IC and TSV technologies53D IC and TSV technologies: 5 fractional worksElectromagnetic Compatibility and Noise Suppression: 5 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 4 fractional worksElectrostatic Discharge …4Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics: 4 fractional works
Computational MechanicsFluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesElectrical and Electronic EngineeringApplied Mathematics

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

  1. 1 Combustion and flame dynamics Computational Mechanics 11 works
  2. 2 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 9 works
  3. 3 Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes 7 works
  4. 4 Electric Motor Design and Analysis Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  5. 5 Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory Applied Mathematics 5 works
  6. 6 Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  7. 7 3D IC and TSV technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  8. 8 Electromagnetic Compatibility and Noise Suppression Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  9. 9 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Canonsburg7.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.8% in 2006.

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