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Research in Gif-sur-Yvette

Science Explorer records 9 research institutions in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel and Supélec.

Research institutions
9
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
79k
▲ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.2M
27.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
17.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Gif-sur-Yvette

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 Gif-sur-Yvette?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Université Paris-SaclayUniversity 49,872 #133
2SupélecUniversity 4,349 #18,144
3Laboratoire National Henri BecquerelResearch facility 667 #16,339
4Laboratoire de Mesure du Carbone 14Research facility 484 #12,878 all time
5Institut de Biologie et TechnologiesResearch facility 368 #19,824 all time
6Fondation de Coopération ScientifiqueInstitution 152 #28,731 all time
7European Nuclear Education NetworkNonprofit 118 not ranked
8DigiteoNonprofit 3 not ranked
9European Embedded Control InstituteInstitution 1 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.

Université Paris-Saclay: 89.0%Supélec: 7.8%Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel: 1.2%Laboratoire de Mesure du Carbone 14: 0.9%5 others listed: 1.1%89%largest
Université Paris-Saclay50k · 89.0%Supélec4,349 · 7.8%Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel667 · 1.2%Laboratoire de Mesure du Carbone 14484 · 0.9%5 others listed642 · 1.1%

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

Which fields of science does Gif-sur-Yvette work in?

In 2022-now, 61% of research in Gif-sur-Yvette is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (19%), Physics and Astronomy (12%), Medicine (12%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 9,158 fractional works · 60.9% of its workEngineering: 2,912 fractional works · 19.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 717 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 396 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 322 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 288 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 264 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 253 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 173 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 132 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 82 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 75 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 72 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 65 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 38 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1,863 fractional works · 12.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 482 fractional works · 3.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 460 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 439 fractional works · 2.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 171 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiation: 144 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 116 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInstrumentation: 47 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1,271 fractional works · 8.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 503 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 196 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 172 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 167 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 77 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 872 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 546 fractional works · 3.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 147 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 51 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 35 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 693 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 214 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology: 130 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 94 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 39 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 55 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 447 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 198 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 112 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 74 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 36 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 445 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMathematical Physics: 123 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 81 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 81 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 67 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 93 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 443 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 196 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeophysics: 81 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 73 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 141 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 130 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 72 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 2,099 fractional works · 14.0% of its workMedicine: 1,831 fractional works · 12.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 218 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 182 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurgery: 158 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOncology: 154 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 113 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 102 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 98 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 65 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 63 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 62 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 55 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 47 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 39 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 277 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 212 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 133 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 79 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 35 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 35 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2,046 fractional works · 13.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1,114 fractional works · 7.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 682 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGenetics: 156 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 57 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 53 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 123 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 472 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPlant Science: 199 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 79 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 66 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 128 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeuroscience: 299 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 169 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 63 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 31 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 117 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 83 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 43 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,727 fractional works · 11.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 806 fractional works · 5.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 345 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 120 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrban Studies: 58 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 160 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 243 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArcheology: 59 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 36 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHistory: 35 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 112 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 211 fractional works · 1.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 67 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 55 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 178 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 120 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFinance: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 162 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 106 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 127 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 62 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKGif-sur-Yvette15kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences61%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences11%

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. Engineering2,91219.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1,86312.4%
    3. Computer Science1,2718.5%
    4. Materials Science8725.8%
    5. Environmental Science6934.6%
    6. Chemistry4473.0%
    7. Mathematics4453.0%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences4432.9%
    9. Energy1410.9%
    10. Chemical Engineering720.5%
  2. Health Sciences2,09914.0%
    1. Medicine1,83112.2%
    2. Health Professions2121.4%
    3. Nursing350.2%
    4. Veterinary110.1%
    5. Dentistry100.1%
  3. Life Sciences2,04613.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1,1147.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4723.1%
    3. Neuroscience2992.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology1170.8%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics430.3%
  4. Social Sciences1,72711.5%
    1. Social Sciences8065.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities2431.6%
    3. Psychology2111.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1781.2%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting1621.1%
    6. Decision Sciences1270.8%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Gif-sur-Yvette strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Gif-sur-Yvette is most concentrated in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation and Instrumentation (9.9× the world share in Nuclear and High Energy Physics).

  1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 419.3 works9.9×
  2. RadiationSubfield · 134.9 works7.3×
  3. InstrumentationSubfield · 37.6 works5.6×
  4. Physics and AstronomyField · 1,663.9 works5.6×
  5. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 386.9 works5.5×
  6. Mathematical PhysicsSubfield · 111.7 works5.2×
← 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, 415 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.37× its world share, 980 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.74× its world share, 101 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.18× its world share, 258 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.83× its world share, 39 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.38× its world share, 65 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.91× its world share, 403 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.10× its world share, 1,149 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.78× its world share, 375 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.03× its world share, 127 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.33× its world share, 2,675 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.87× its world share, 580 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.67× its world share, 782 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.54× its world share, 402 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 5.57× its world share, 1,664 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.12× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.55× its world share, 195 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.62× its world share, 1,605 worksMedicineNursing: 0.47× its world share, 31 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.42× its world share, 8 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.57× its world share, 221 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.34× its world share, 148 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.88× its world share, 114 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.56× its world share, 162 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.45× its world share, 185 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 748 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 5.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy5.57×1,664 works
  2. Mathematics2.54×402 works
  3. Chemistry1.91×403 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.78×375 works
  5. Materials Science1.67×782 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.38×65 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.37×980 works
  8. Engineering1.33×2,675 works
  9. Neuroscience1.18×258 works
  10. Computer Science1.10×1,149 works
  11. Energy1.03×127 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.88×114 works
  13. Environmental Science0.87×580 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.83×39 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.74×101 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.65×415 works
  17. Medicine0.62×1,605 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.57×221 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.56×162 works
  20. Health Professions0.55×195 works
  21. Nursing0.47×31 works
  22. Psychology0.45×185 works
  23. Social Sciences0.44×748 works
  24. Veterinary0.42×8 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.34×148 works
  26. Dentistry0.12×8 works

Which keywords describe research in Gif-sur-Yvette?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Dark Matter, Deep Learning, Territorial Governance, Local Development, Machine Learning, Particle Physics and Lattice QCD.

▲ 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 Learning489◆ 0.94×81 topics
  2. Climate Change481▲ 1.18×107 topics
  3. Machine Learning465◆ 0.93×90 topics
  4. Epidemiology320▼ 0.53×139 topics
  5. Neural Networks262◆ 1.13×39 topics
  6. Nanoparticles236▲ 1.24×44 topics
  7. Biomedical Applications208▲ 1.17×36 topics
  8. Remote Sensing192◆ 1.05×38 topics
  9. Dark Matter166▲ 9.6×4 topics
  10. Community Engagement156▲ 3.2×15 topics
  11. Territorial Governance148▲ 8.6×3 topics
  12. Local Development147▲ 9.4×2 topics
  13. Heat Transfer145▲ 1.96×18 topics
  14. Particle Physics116▲ 11×2 topics
  15. Large-Eddy Simulation114▲ 4.1×5 topics
  16. Tomography112▲ 4.2×5 topics
  17. Black Holes112▲ 7.7×3 topics
  18. Lattice QCD112▲ 13×2 topics
  19. Monte Carlo Simulation107▲ 3.5×9 topics
  20. Nonlinear Systems102▲ 3.1×8 topics
  21. Citizen Participation101▲ 5.8×3 topics
  22. Environmental Participation98▲ 9.1×1 topic
  23. Proximity and Innovation98▲ 9.1×1 topic
  24. Superconductivity96▲ 3.7×9 topics
  25. Density Functional Theory95▲ 6.1×6 topics
  26. Star Formation90▲ 11×2 topics
  27. Entanglement87▲ 3.8×4 topics
  28. Higgs Boson85▲ 11×1 topic
  29. High-Energy Collider85▲ 11×1 topic
  30. Renormalization Group83▲ 9.8×2 topics
  31. Cosmology82▲ 8.0×4 topics
  32. Supernovae81▲ 6.6×2 topics
  33. Nucleosynthesis75▲ 10×3 topics
  34. Electronic Structure Calculations72▲ 7.5×2 topics
  35. Magnetic Fields69▲ 6.9×3 topics
  36. Accretion Disks66▲ 8.8×2 topics
  37. Cosmic Rays63▲ 8.6×2 topics
  38. Neutrinos63▲ 8.6×2 topics
  39. QCD63▲ 12×1 topic
  40. charmonium63▲ 12×1 topic

What research is done in Gif-sur-Yvette?

French Urban and Social Studies: 97 fractional worksParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 79 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 56 fractional worksEducation, sociology, and vocational training: 53 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 52 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Applications: 49 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Gove…48Social Sciences and Governance: 48 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 45 fractional worksHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research: 43 fractional worksNuclear reactor physics …42Nuclear reactor physics and engineering: 42 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceNuclear and High Energy PhysicsAstronomy and AstrophysicsRadiation2 others

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

  1. 1 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 97 works
  2. 2 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 79 works
  3. 3 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear and High Energy Physics 56 works
  4. 4 Education, sociology, and vocational training Sociology and Political Science 53 works
  5. 5 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 52 works
  6. 6 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 49 works
  7. 7 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 48 works
  8. 8 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 45 works
  9. 9 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 43 works
  10. 10 Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Aerospace Engineering 42 works

Research output over time

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grewheldshrank

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%Gif-sur-Yvette17.8% 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 31.5% in 2016.

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