Research in Fairfax
Science Explorer records 53 research institutions in Fairfax, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are George Mason University, General Dynamics (United States) and ICF International (United States).
- Research institutions
- 53 7 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 54k ▲ 2% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.1M 20.7 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 18.9% 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 Fairfax?
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 Fairfax work in?
In 2022-now, 42% of research in Fairfax is in Social Sciences, 37% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (21%), Computer Science (14%), Medicine (12%). It does 1.7× 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
- Social Sciences3,87141.6%
- Social Sciences1,95821.1%
- Psychology5766.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance4965.3%
- Business, Management and Accounting3453.7%
- Arts and Humanities3153.4%
- Decision Sciences1822.0%
- Physical Sciences3,46037.2%
- Computer Science1,30414.0%
- Engineering8339.0%
- Environmental Science5195.6%
- Physics and Astronomy2402.6%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2242.4%
- Mathematics1361.5%
- Materials Science1191.3%
- Chemistry500.5%
- Energy240.3%
- Chemical Engineering100.1%
- Health Sciences1,39215.0%
- Medicine1,08011.6%
- Health Professions2763.0%
- Nursing250.3%
- Veterinary60.1%
- Dentistry50.1%
- Life Sciences5776.2%
What is Fairfax strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Fairfax is most concentrated in Software, Safety Research and History and Philosophy of Science (5.1× the world share in Software).
- SoftwareSubfield · 26.8 works5.1×
- Safety ResearchSubfield · 98.6 works4.4×
- History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 40.1 works3.2×
- Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 27.9 works3.1×
- General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 60.5 works3.0×
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: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 2.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.70×469 works
- Psychology2.01×497 works
- Decision Sciences2.00×157 works
- Computer Science1.83×1,154 works
- Social Sciences1.73×1,778 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.45×185 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.23×322 works
- Mathematics1.20×115 works
- Health Professions1.15×246 works
- Arts and Humanities1.13×264 works
- Environmental Science1.09×440 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.03×186 works
- Neuroscience0.99×130 works
- Engineering0.60×728 works
- Medicine0.57×887 works
- Nursing0.55×22 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.50×218 works
- Veterinary0.40×4 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.37×30 works
- Materials Science0.35×98 works
- Chemistry0.34×44 works
- Chemical Engineering0.30×8 works
- Energy0.27×20 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×99 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.23×6 works
- Dentistry0.11×4 works
Which keywords describe research in Fairfax?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Globalization, Neoliberalism, Climate Change, Property Rights, Mental Health and Economic Growth.
- Criminal Behavior
- Market Evolution
- Macroeconomics
- Neighborhood Effects
- Public Opinion
- Political Economy
- Surveillance
- International Law
- Religion
- Global Warming
- Ethics
- Property Rights
- Social Media
- Human Rights
- Big Data
- Remote Sensing
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Neural Networks
- Public Health
- Economic Growth
- Artificial Intelligence
- Neoliberalism
- Security
- Regulation
- Trust
- Social Capital
- Nationalism
- Democracy
- Global Governance
- Behavioral Economics
- Institutional Economics
- Economic Institutions
- Evolutionary Economics
- Fairness
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 Learning536▲ 1.73×85 topics
- Deep Learning442▲ 1.38×79 topics
- Globalization341▲ 1.86×134 topics
- Climate Change332▲ 1.31×102 topics
- Epidemiology286▼ 0.77×125 topics
- Mental Health222▲ 1.67×46 topics
- Neural Networks202▲ 1.40×39 topics
- Sustainability187▼ 0.82×107 topics
- Public Health180▲ 1.32×65 topics
- Remote Sensing180▲ 1.58×36 topics
- Economic Growth172▲ 2.3×31 topics
- Big Data172▲ 1.94×28 topics
- Artificial Intelligence170▲ 1.28×49 topics
- Human Rights170▲ 1.79×70 topics
- Neoliberalism159▲ 4.8×25 topics
- Social Media145◆ 1.13×34 topics
- Security137▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Property Rights120▲ 20×7 topics
- Regulation116▲ 2.4×24 topics
- Ethics115▲ 2.4×44 topics
- Trust110▲ 4.3×10 topics
- Global Warming101▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Social Capital97▲ 2.0×19 topics
- Religion96▲ 2.2×34 topics
- Nationalism94▲ 2.2×26 topics
- International Law92▲ 3.1×23 topics
- Democracy90▲ 2.8×26 topics
- Surveillance85▲ 3.3×7 topics
- Global Governance81▲ 3.6×23 topics
- Political Economy77▲ 3.2×17 topics
- Behavioral Economics64▲ 13×3 topics
- Public Opinion62▲ 5.6×6 topics
- Institutional Economics59▲ 35×2 topics
- Neighborhood Effects59▲ 6.0×3 topics
- Economic Institutions58▲ 38×2 topics
- Macroeconomics58▲ 24×2 topics
- Evolutionary Economics57▲ 44×1 topic
- Market Evolution57▲ 44×1 topic
- Fairness56▲ 5.8×2 topics
- Criminal Behavior50▲ 12×2 topics
What research is done in Fairfax?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Economic Theory and Institutions Economics and Econometrics 55 works
- 2 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 34 works
- 3 Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Sociology and Political Science 31 works
- 4 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 31 works
- 5 Crime Patterns and Interventions Sociology and Political Science 30 works
- 6 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 29 works
- 7 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 26 works
- 8 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 26 works
- 9 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 24 works
- 10 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 24 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 31.0% in 2007.
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