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Research in Fairfax

Science Explorer records 53 research institutions in Fairfax, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are George Mason University, Center For Remote Sensing (United States) and General Dynamics (United States).

Research institutions
53
7 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
54k
▲ 11% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
18.9%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1George Mason UniversityUniversity 40,333 #709
2General Dynamics (United States)Company 4,550 #12,464
3Center For Remote Sensing (United States)Company 1,563 #8,204
4ICF International (United States)Company 1,121 #14,882
5Society of Interventional RadiologyNonprofit 1,117 #12,877
6Logos Technologies (United States)Company 629 #14,731
7Materials Modification (United States)Company 374 #13,382
8Fairfax County Public SchoolsUniversity 358 #34,877 all time
9Zimmerman Associates (United States)Company 348 #19,927 all time
10Radiation Oncology InstituteNonprofit 295 #26,164 all time
11Allen (United States)Company 241 #31,892 all time
12Edge Technologies (United States)Company 231 #30,984 all time
13Genetics and IVF InstituteResearch facility 225 #28,416 all time
14National Institute for Public PolicyNonprofit 214 #38,517 all time
15Syntek Technologies (United States)Company 203 #24,631 all time
16Fairfax Neonatal AssociatesHospital / health system 196 #31,594 all time
17SRA International (United States)Company 189 #29,743 all time
18Eyegaze (United States)Company 187 #38,745 all time
19ManTech International (United States)Company 171 #36,146 all time
20Consolidated Safety Services-Dynamac (United States)Company 148 #32,820 all time
21Trident Systems (United States)Company 148 #39,001 all time
22McKing Consulting (United States)Company 112 not ranked
23Environmental Consultants and ContractorsCompany 78 not ranked
24Virginia International UniversityUniversity 75 not ranked
25Lysosomal and Rare Disorders Research and Treatment CenterInstitution 65 not ranked
26Degge Group (United States)Company 65 not ranked
27DB&A (United States)Company 54 not ranked
28Society for Industrial Microbiology and BiotechnologyInstitution 30 not ranked
29Management Support Technology (United States)Company 26 not ranked
30O&O Alpan (United States)Company 20 not ranked
31Fairfax County Park AuthorityGovernment institution 20 not ranked
32Association of Teacher EducatorsInstitution 18 not ranked
33National Rifle Association of AmericaNonprofit 18 not ranked
34MindSpecNonprofit 14 not ranked
35DZYNE Technologies (United States)Company 12 not ranked
36Group W (United States)Company 11 not ranked
37Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services BoardGovernment institution 11 not ranked
38Fairfax County Public LibraryArchive 10 not ranked
39Side-Out FoundationNonprofit 4 not ranked
40MTS3 (United States)Company 4 not ranked
41Loyola FoundationNonprofit 3 not ranked
42CGI (United States)Company 2 not ranked
43NuVue Therapeutics (United States)Company 2 not ranked
44Association For Women in MathematicsNonprofit 2 not ranked
45American Society of Cataract and Refractive SurgeryNonprofit 1 not ranked
46Armed Forces Communications and Electronics AssociationNonprofit 1 not ranked
47New Rules for Global FinanceNonprofit 1 not ranked
48Society for Technical CommunicationInstitution 1 not ranked
49Public Entity Risk InstituteNonprofit 1 not ranked
50Society for Prevention ResearchNonprofit 1 not ranked
51In Depth Engineering (United States)Company 1 not ranked
52NetHopeNonprofit 1 not ranked
53Azure Summit Technology (United States)Company 0 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. 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.

George Mason University: 75.4%General Dynamics (United States): 8.5%Center For Remote Sensing (United States): 2.9%ICF International (United States): 2.1%48 others listed: 11.1%75%largest
George Mason University40k · 75.4%General Dynamics (United States)4,550 · 8.5%Center For Remote Sensing (United States)1,563 · 2.9%ICF International (United States)1,121 · 2.1%48 others listed5,938 · 11.1%

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

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).

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 26.8 works5.1×
  2. Safety ResearchSubfield · 98.6 works4.4×
  3. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 40.1 works3.2×
  4. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 27.9 works3.1×
  5. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 60.5 works3.0×
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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.

Which keywords describe research in Fairfax?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Globalization, Neoliberalism, Property Rights, Climate Change, Economic Growth and Mental Health.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Machine Learning458▲ 1.73×85 topics
  2. Deep Learning386▲ 1.39×78 topics
  3. Globalization304▲ 1.91×127 topics
  4. Climate Change278▲ 1.27×101 topics
  5. Epidemiology248▼ 0.77×122 topics
  6. Mental Health199▲ 1.67×45 topics
  7. Neural Networks173▲ 1.38×39 topics
  8. Economic Growth164▲ 2.4×28 topics
  9. Sustainability164▼ 0.83×102 topics
  10. Human Rights160▲ 1.92×68 topics
  11. Public Health156▲ 1.32×65 topics
  12. Big Data148▲ 2.0×26 topics
  13. Neoliberalism148▲ 5.1×24 topics
  14. Remote Sensing146▲ 1.46×36 topics
  15. Artificial Intelligence142▲ 1.28×47 topics
  16. Security124▲ 2.3×26 topics
  17. Property Rights116▲ 21×7 topics
  18. Regulation111▲ 2.5×23 topics
  19. Ethics100▲ 2.5×39 topics
  20. Trust94▲ 4.2×10 topics
  21. Social Capital91▲ 2.1×19 topics
  22. International Law89▲ 3.6×23 topics
  23. Nationalism89▲ 2.4×25 topics
  24. Religion87▲ 2.2×32 topics
  25. Global Warming83▲ 2.5×13 topics
  26. Democracy81▲ 2.8×25 topics
  27. Surveillance78▲ 3.6×6 topics
  28. Global Governance75▲ 4.1×21 topics
  29. Political Economy73▲ 3.5×17 topics
  30. Behavioral Economics61▲ 14×3 topics
  31. Self-Regulation61▲ 4.2×6 topics
  32. Public Opinion58▲ 5.8×6 topics
  33. Institutional Economics57▲ 36×2 topics
  34. Economic Institutions55▲ 40×2 topics
  35. Macroeconomics55▲ 25×2 topics
  36. Evolutionary Economics55▲ 45×1 topic
  37. Market Evolution55▲ 45×1 topic
  38. Neighborhood Effects55▲ 6.2×3 topics
  39. Accountability52▲ 6.0×4 topics
  40. Fairness51▲ 7.2×2 topics

What research is done in Fairfax?

  1. 1 Economic Theory and Institutions Economics and Econometrics 55 works
  2. 2 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 34 works
  3. 3 Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Sociology and Political Science 31 works
  4. 4 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 31 works
  5. 5 Crime Patterns and Interventions Sociology and Political Science 30 works
  6. 6 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 29 works
  7. 7 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 26 works
  8. 8 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 26 works
  9. 9 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 24 works
  10. 10 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 24 works

Research output over time

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