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Research in College Park

Science Explorer records 22 research institutions in College Park, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Maryland, College Park and American Institute of Physics.

Research institutions
22
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
126k
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.8M
38.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
23.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
College Park

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 College Park?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity 122,412 #109
2American Institute of PhysicsNonprofit 1,529 #20,297
3American Physical SocietyNonprofit 368 #13,299 all time
4Joint Space Science InstituteResearch facility 142 #31,786 all time
5Redox Power Systems (United States)Company 93 not ranked
6American Association of Physics TeachersNonprofit 63 not ranked
7IonQ (United States)Company 53 not ranked
8Enterprise Sciences (United States)Company 52 not ranked
9CoolCad Electronics (United States)Company 31 not ranked
10Precision Polyolefins (United States)Company 26 not ranked
11ATEC (United States)Company 25 not ranked
12Enigmatics (United States)Company 18 not ranked
13IGI Technologies (United States)Company 14 not ranked
14Astrox (United States)Company 12 not ranked
15FlexEl (United States)Company 12 not ranked
16American Association of Physicists in MedicineInstitution 7 not ranked
17National History DayNonprofit 5 not ranked
18AccuStrata (United States)Company 4 not ranked
19SR2 Group (United States)Company 3 not ranked
20Resensys (United States)Company 1 not ranked
21Association for India’s DevelopmentNonprofit 1 not ranked
22American Society of PrimatologistsNonprofit 0 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.

University of Maryland, College Park: 98.0%American Institute of Physics: 1.2%American Physical Society: 0.3%Joint Space Science Institute: 0.1%17 others listed: 0.3%98%largest
University of Maryland, College Park122k · 98.0%American Institute of Physics1,529 · 1.2%American Physical Society368 · 0.3%Joint Space Science Institute142 · 0.1%17 others listed420 · 0.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does College Park work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research in College Park is in Physical Sciences, 26% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (15%), Social Sciences (13%), Computer Science (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 7,417 fractional works · 53.6% of its workEngineering: 2,065 fractional works · 14.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 527 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 282 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 270 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 173 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 157 fractional works · 1.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 126 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 108 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 91 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 64 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 54 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 51 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 47 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1,658 fractional works · 12.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 717 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 268 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 166 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 123 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 117 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 80 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 57 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 51 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1,201 fractional works · 8.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 462 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 341 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 161 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 120 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 73 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 984 fractional works · 7.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 315 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcology: 144 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 140 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 111 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 58 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 58 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 49 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 36 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 587 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 322 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeophysics: 104 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOceanography: 100 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 61 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 364 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 230 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 49 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 306 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 75 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematical Physics: 66 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 55 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 53 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 159 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 47 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 61 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 49 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3,624 fractional works · 26.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,811 fractional works · 13.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 624 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEducation: 310 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 185 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 107 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 94 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 76 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 61 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 51 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 144 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 700 fractional works · 5.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 199 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 196 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 146 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 122 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 28 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 404 fractional works · 2.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 89 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 54 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 53 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 49 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 99 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 277 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 198 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 55 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 232 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 109 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 54 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 202 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 39 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 30 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 28 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1,557 fractional works · 11.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 689 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 394 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGenetics: 90 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 47 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiotechnology: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 124 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 419 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPlant Science: 138 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 83 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 65 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 35 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 28 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 70 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 343 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 243 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 50 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 79 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 54 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 28 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,226 fractional works · 8.9% of its workMedicine: 923 fractional works · 6.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 119 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 94 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 70 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 64 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 62 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 59 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 53 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 38 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 35 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 243 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 254 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 153 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 30 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 71 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 28 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCollege Park14kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences26%

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. Engineering2,06514.9%
    2. Computer Science1,65812.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy1,2018.7%
    4. Environmental Science9847.1%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences5874.2%
    6. Materials Science3642.6%
    7. Mathematics3062.2%
    8. Chemistry1591.2%
    9. Energy610.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering320.2%
  2. Social Sciences3,62426.2%
    1. Social Sciences1,81113.1%
    2. Psychology7005.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities4042.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2772.0%
    5. Decision Sciences2321.7%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting2021.5%
  3. Life Sciences1,55711.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6895.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4193.0%
    3. Neuroscience3432.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology790.6%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics280.2%
    1. Medicine9236.7%
    2. Health Professions2541.8%
    3. Nursing320.2%
    4. Dentistry100.1%
    5. Veterinary70.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is College Park strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in College Park is most concentrated in Atmospheric Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics (5.3× the world share in Atmospheric Science).

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 285.1 works5.3×
  2. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 419.8 works4.8×
  3. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 301.0 works4.7×
  4. Physics and AstronomyField · 1,077.6 works4.0×
  5. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 146.6 works3.8×
  6. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 66.7 works3.4×
← 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: 0.65× its world share, 376 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.91× its world share, 593 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.56× its world share, 69 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.51× its world share, 300 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.60× its world share, 26 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.69× its world share, 30 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.72× its world share, 139 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.55× its world share, 1,476 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.74× its world share, 526 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 54 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.99× its world share, 1,821 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.43× its world share, 874 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.77× its world share, 328 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.83× its world share, 264 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 3.95× its world share, 1,078 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 9 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.71× its world share, 231 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.34× its world share, 803 worksMedicineNursing: 0.45× its world share, 27 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.41× its world share, 7 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.01× its world share, 359 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.46× its world share, 183 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.71× its world share, 202 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.98× its world share, 258 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.60× its world share, 599 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.05× its world share, 1,630 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy3.95×1,078 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.74×526 works
  3. Mathematics1.83×264 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.71×202 works
  5. Psychology1.60×599 works
  6. Computer Science1.55×1,476 works
  7. Neuroscience1.51×300 works
  8. Environmental Science1.43×874 works
  9. Social Sciences1.05×1,630 works
  10. Arts and Humanities1.01×359 works
  11. Engineering0.99×1,821 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.98×258 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.91×593 works
  14. Materials Science0.77×328 works
  15. Chemistry0.72×139 works
  16. Health Professions0.71×231 works
  17. Chemical Engineering0.69×30 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.65×376 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.60×26 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.56×69 works
  21. Energy0.48×54 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.46×183 works
  23. Nursing0.45×27 works
  24. Veterinary0.41×7 works
  25. Medicine0.34×803 works
  26. Dentistry0.15×9 works

Which keywords describe research in College Park?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Machine Learning, Entanglement, Deep Learning, Remote Sensing, Quantum Information, Neural Networks and Global Warming.

▲ 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. Climate Change648▲ 1.72×111 topics
  2. Machine Learning591▲ 1.28×84 topics
  3. Deep Learning540◆ 1.13×76 topics
  4. Neural Networks324▲ 1.52×38 topics
  5. Remote Sensing306▲ 1.81×40 topics
  6. Mental Health286▲ 1.45×40 topics
  7. Public Health216◆ 1.07×54 topics
  8. Global Warming197▲ 3.4×15 topics
  9. Entanglement188▲ 9.0×4 topics
  10. Security151▲ 1.63×25 topics
  11. Quantum Information140▲ 8.7×3 topics
  12. Data Assimilation134▲ 5.9×4 topics
  13. Biosensors131▲ 1.93×12 topics
  14. Ocean Circulation118▲ 6.2×3 topics
  15. Air Quality116▲ 4.5×6 topics
  16. Hydrological Cycle110▲ 7.8×2 topics
  17. Greenhouse Gas Emissions109▲ 2.9×9 topics
  18. Quantum Simulation108▲ 9.8×2 topics
  19. Hydrological Modeling107▲ 3.2×5 topics
  20. Satellite Observations106▲ 7.7×3 topics
  21. Boundary Layer102▲ 5.9×4 topics
  22. Probabilistic Forecasting101▲ 3.8×3 topics
  23. Language Development101▲ 5.9×6 topics
  24. Superconducting Circuits91▲ 9.5×2 topics
  25. Cryptography90▲ 5.4×4 topics
  26. Computation85▲ 8.5×2 topics
  27. Ensemble Kalman Filter85▲ 6.0×2 topics
  28. Convective Parameterization83▲ 10×1 topic
  29. Mesoscale Modeling83▲ 10×1 topic
  30. Quantum83▲ 7.6×2 topics
  31. Measurement83▲ 7.3×2 topics
  32. Metrology82▲ 10.0×1 topic
  33. Photon82▲ 10.0×1 topic
  34. Quantum Algorithms80▲ 11×1 topic
  35. Quantum Computation80▲ 11×1 topic
  36. Climate76▲ 5.7×2 topics
  37. Climate Modeling70▲ 6.8×1 topic
  38. Precipitation Extremes70▲ 6.8×1 topic
  39. Renormalization Group67▲ 8.6×2 topics
  40. Topological Order66▲ 10.0×2 topics

What research is done in College Park?

Quantum Information and …74Quantum Information and Cryptography: 74 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena…73Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 73 fractional worksQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture: 71 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 63 fractional worksQuantum and electron transport phenomena: 52 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Devices: 49 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Materials and Technologies: 48 fractional worksAdvancements in Battery …46Advancements in Battery Materials: 46 fractional worksQuantum many-body systems: 45 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 43 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceAtmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics1 others

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

  1. 1 Quantum Information and Cryptography Artificial Intelligence 74 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 73 works
  3. 3 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 71 works
  4. 4 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 63 works
  5. 5 Quantum and electron transport phenomena Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 52 works
  6. 6 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 49 works
  7. 7 Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 48 works
  8. 8 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 46 works
  9. 9 Quantum many-body systems Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 45 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 43 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%College Park20.9% 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 37.8% in 2016.

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