Research in Colorado Springs
Science Explorer records 54 research institutions in Colorado Springs, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Colorado College.
- Research institutions
- 54 2 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 22k ▲ 10% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 402k 18.1 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 11.0% 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 Colorado Springs?
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 Colorado Springs work in?
In 2022-now, 43% of research in Colorado Springs is in Physical Sciences, 32% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (15%), Social Sciences (15%), Medicine (14%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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 Sciences1,67442.9%
- Engineering59615.3%
- Computer Science43511.1%
- Physics and Astronomy1483.8%
- Environmental Science1473.8%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1343.4%
- Mathematics1102.8%
- Materials Science521.3%
- Chemistry330.8%
- Energy110.3%
- Chemical Engineering80.2%
- Social Sciences1,25132.1%
- Social Sciences58715.1%
- Psychology2997.7%
- Arts and Humanities1423.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting1022.6%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance681.7%
- Decision Sciences531.3%
- Health Sciences69617.8%
- Medicine56314.4%
- Health Professions1042.7%
- Dentistry130.3%
- Nursing110.3%
- Veterinary50.1%
- Life Sciences2797.1%
What is Colorado Springs strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Colorado Springs is most concentrated in Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics and History and Philosophy of Science (6.6× the world share in Environmental Chemistry).
- Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 50.0 works6.6×
- GeophysicsSubfield · 78.0 works6.4×
- History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 20.7 works3.9×
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: Mathematics, 2.5×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Mathematics2.55×104 works
- Psychology2.50×264 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.38×130 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.68×129 works
- Computer Science1.44×388 works
- Decision Sciences1.37×46 works
- Arts and Humanities1.29×130 works
- Social Sciences1.19×521 works
- Health Professions1.04×95 works
- Engineering1.03×534 works
- Neuroscience1.00×56 works
- Veterinary0.90×4 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.84×94 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.83×62 works
- Environmental Science0.78×134 works
- Medicine0.72×482 works
- Dentistry0.70×12 works
- Chemical Engineering0.61×7 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.59×108 works
- Nursing0.59×10 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.54×7 works
- Chemistry0.54×30 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.36×60 works
- Materials Science0.35×42 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.31×11 works
- Energy0.28×9 works
Which keywords describe research in Colorado Springs?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Mental Health, Methane Oxidation, Anaerobic, Gas Hydrates, Epidemiology, Deep Learning and Ionospheric Anomalies.
- Space Tourism
- Turbulence Modeling
- Radial Basis Functions
- Adaptive Mesh Refinement
- Athletic Training
- Teaching Methods
- Cybersecurity
- Seismic Noise
- Ionospheric Anomalies
- Tomography
- Student Engagement
- Meta-Analysis
- Anaerobic
- Ethics
- Big Data
- Identity
- Education
- Globalization
- Mental Health
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Public Health
- Security
- Microbial Communities
- Methane Oxidation
- Gas Hydrates
- Gender
- Higher Education
- Anomaly Detection
- Seismic Electromagnetics
- Surface Wave
- Large-Eddy Simulation
- Engineering Education
- Injury Prevention
- High-Order Schemes
- Shock-Wave Interactions
- Space Policy
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 Learning158▲ 1.22×86 topics
- Epidemiology145◆ 0.94×124 topics
- Deep Learning133◆ 0.99×75 topics
- Mental Health113▲ 2.0×42 topics
- Climate Change100◆ 0.94×88 topics
- Globalization91▲ 1.19×90 topics
- Sustainability82▼ 0.86×70 topics
- Education76◆ 1.13×75 topics
- Public Health65◆ 1.15×50 topics
- Identity57▲ 2.0×46 topics
- Security56▲ 2.1×24 topics
- Big Data55▲ 1.46×26 topics
- Microbial Communities53▲ 3.1×7 topics
- Ethics51▲ 2.6×33 topics
- Methane Oxidation47▲ 15×2 topics
- Anaerobic47▲ 19×1 topic
- Gas Hydrates47▲ 19×1 topic
- Meta-Analysis45▲ 1.96×17 topics
- Gender44▲ 2.1×33 topics
- Student Engagement43▲ 2.8×15 topics
- Higher Education42▲ 2.0×22 topics
- Tomography38▲ 5.5×5 topics
- Anomaly Detection35▲ 3.1×5 topics
- Ionospheric Anomalies35▲ 24×1 topic
- Seismic Electromagnetics35▲ 24×1 topic
- Seismic Noise35▲ 19×1 topic
- Surface Wave35▲ 19×1 topic
- Cybersecurity31▲ 3.2×6 topics
- Large-Eddy Simulation30▲ 4.2×5 topics
- Teaching Methods29▲ 4.6×7 topics
- Engineering Education25▲ 7.6×5 topics
- Athletic Training25▲ 7.0×3 topics
- Injury Prevention25▲ 5.2×5 topics
- Adaptive Mesh Refinement25▲ 10×2 topics
- High-Order Schemes25▲ 10×2 topics
- Radial Basis Functions24▲ 8.6×2 topics
- Shock-Wave Interactions24▲ 15×1 topic
- Turbulence Modeling24▲ 15×1 topic
- Space Policy22▲ 41×1 topic
- Space Tourism22▲ 41×1 topic
What research is done in Colorado Springs?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 46 works
- 2 Earthquake Detection and Analysis Geophysics 35 works
- 3 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 35 works
- 4 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 22 works
- 5 Space exploration and regulation Astronomy and Astrophysics 18 works
- 6 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 16 works
- 7 History and Theory of Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science 15 works
- 8 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 15 works
- 9 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 13 works
- 10 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 13 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 26.7% in 2016.
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