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Research in Cupertino

Science Explorer records 10 research institutions in Cupertino, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Apple (United States) and Seagate (United States).

Research institutions
10
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.9k
▲ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
114k
29.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
19.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Cupertino

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 Cupertino?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Apple (United States)Company 6,875 #2,818
2Seagate (United States)Company 2,044 #20,842
3Affymax (United States)Company 324 #33,002 all time
4De Anza CollegeUniversity 202 #27,019 all time
5Cellular Biomedicine Group (United States)Company 53 not ranked
6Integrated Optical Circuit Consultants (United States)Company 48 not ranked
7Durect (United States)Company 17 not ranked
8CRC Health GroupHospital / health system 15 not ranked
9Silicon Mitus (United States)Company 10 not ranked
10Northern California DX FoundationNonprofit 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.

Apple (United States): 71.7%Seagate (United States): 21.3%Affymax (United States): 3.4%De Anza College: 2.1%5 others listed: 1.5%72%largest
Apple (United States)6,875 · 71.7%Seagate (United States)2,044 · 21.3%Affymax (United States)324 · 3.4%De Anza College202 · 2.1%5 others listed143 · 1.5%

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

Which fields of science does Cupertino work in?

In 2022-now, 65% of research in Cupertino is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (28%), Engineering (24%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 302 fractional works · 64.8% of its workComputer Science: 129 fractional works · 27.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 53 fractional works · 11.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 20 fractional works · 4.3% of its workInformation Systems: 16 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoftware: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 114 fractional works · 24.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 39 fractional works · 8.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 17 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 77 fractional works · 16.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 29 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 56 fractional works · 12.0% of its workMedicine: 47 fractional works · 10.0% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 31 fractional works · 6.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCupertino466fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences65%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences17%

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. Computer Science12927.7%
    2. Engineering11424.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy173.7%
    4. Environmental Science173.6%
    5. Materials Science143.1%
    6. Mathematics40.9%
    7. Chemistry30.7%
    8. Chemical Engineering20.4%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    10. Energy10.1%
    1. Social Sciences296.2%
    2. Psychology132.7%
    3. Decision Sciences112.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting92.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance81.7%
    6. Arts and Humanities71.6%
    1. Medicine4710.0%
    2. Health Professions81.6%
    3. Dentistry10.2%
    4. Nursing10.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology143.1%
    2. Neuroscience81.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences71.6%
    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 Cupertino strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Cupertino is most concentrated in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (4.7× the world share in Artificial Intelligence).

  1. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 43.0 works4.7×
  2. Computer ScienceField · 107.6 works3.6×
← 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: 0.30× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.58× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.06× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.50× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.65× its world share, 108 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.66× its world share, 94 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.56× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.65× its world share, 9 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.98× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.48× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.70× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.53× its world share, 38 worksMedicineNursing: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.56× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.52× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.02× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.85× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.98× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 27 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science3.65×108 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.02×7 works
  3. Engineering1.66×94 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.48×12 works
  5. Neuroscience1.06×6 works
  6. Mathematics0.98×4 works
  7. Psychology0.98×11 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.85×7 works
  9. Health Professions0.70×7 works
  10. Materials Science0.65×9 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.58×12 works
  12. Dentistry0.57×1 works
  13. Environmental Science0.56×11 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.56×6 works
  15. Social Sciences0.56×27 works
  16. Medicine0.53×38 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.52×6 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.51×1 works
  19. Chemistry0.50×3 works
  20. Veterinary0.38×0 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.34×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.30×5 works
  23. Nursing0.29×0 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.16×1 works
  25. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×1 works
  26. Energy0.07×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Cupertino?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Big Data, Machine Translation and Word Representation.

▲ 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. Deep Learning48▲ 3.0×66 topics
  2. Machine Learning32▲ 2.1×56 topics
  3. Neural Networks30▲ 4.1×27 topics
  4. Big Data12▲ 2.7×14 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence11▲ 1.65×20 topics
  6. Energy Efficiency11▲ 2.5×20 topics
  7. Information Retrieval10▲ 10×4 topics
  8. Security10▲ 3.2×13 topics
  9. Nanoparticles9▲ 1.51×15 topics
  10. Healthcare9▲ 1.65×12 topics
  11. Convolutional Neural Networks9▲ 2.6×11 topics
  12. Data Mining8▲ 2.5×7 topics
  13. Text Classification8▲ 11×3 topics
  14. Machine Translation7▲ 8.8×1 topic
  15. Word Representation7▲ 12×1 topic
  16. Distributed Systems6▲ 8.0×6 topics
  17. Deep Neural Networks6▲ 10×3 topics
  18. Anomaly Detection5▲ 4.0×3 topics
  19. Integrated Circuits5▲ 7.8×3 topics
  20. Corpus Linguistics5▲ 5.1×2 topics
  21. Spintronics5▲ 8.5×3 topics
  22. Machine Vision5▲ 5.0×4 topics
  23. Neural Machine Translation5▲ 11×1 topic
  24. Statistical Machine Translation5▲ 11×1 topic
  25. Room Temperature5▲ 6.7×2 topics
  26. Unsupervised Learning5▲ 6.7×3 topics
  27. CMOS5▲ 20×2 topics
  28. Human-Computer Interaction5▲ 5.5×6 topics
  29. Magnetic Tunnel Junctions5▲ 36×1 topic
  30. Skyrmions5▲ 36×1 topic
  31. Texture Analysis5▲ 4.5×3 topics
  32. CMOS Technology4▲ 12×4 topics
  33. Representation Learning4▲ 5.7×3 topics
  34. Channel Modeling4▲ 7.1×6 topics
  35. Meta-Learning4▲ 10×2 topics
  36. Delta-Sigma Modulator4▲ 23×2 topics
  37. Heterogeneous Networks4▲ 7.5×2 topics
  38. Fabric Defect Detection3▲ 10×1 topic
  39. Fault Localization3▲ 10×2 topics
  40. Semiconductor Manufacturing3▲ 10×1 topic

What research is done in Cupertino?

Topic Modeling5Topic Modeling: 5 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 4 fractional worksIndustrial Vision System…3Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection: 3 fractional worksMagnetic properties of t…3Magnetic properties of thin films: 3 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 3 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 2 fractional worksAnalog and Mixed-Signal …2Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design: 2 fractional worksAdhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 2 fractional worksElectrostatic Discharge …2Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics: 2 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition3 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 5 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  3. 3 Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 3 works
  4. 4 Magnetic properties of thin films Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 3 works
  5. 5 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3 works
  6. 6 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  7. 7 Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions Mechanics of Materials 2 works
  9. 9 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  10. 10 Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 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%60%Cupertino16.0% 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 41.3% in 1996.

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