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Research in Greenbelt

Science Explorer records 10 research institutions in Greenbelt, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Global Science & Technology (United States) and Array Information Technology (United States).

Research institutions
10
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
42k
▼ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.1M
25.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
19.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Greenbelt

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 Greenbelt?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (United States)Company 771 #8,748 all time
2Global Science & Technology (United States)Company 402 #20,431
3Array Information Technology (United States)Company 220 #20,491
4Emergent Space Technologies (United States)Company 58 not ranked
5University Technical Services (United States)Company 23 not ranked
6Maryland Advanced Development LaboratoryResearch facility 14 not ranked
7TRX Systems (United States)Company 12 not ranked
8Environmental Leadership ProgramInstitution 6 not ranked
9Orbit Logic (United States)Company 6 not ranked
10Seamon (United States)Company 2 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.

Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (United States): 50.9%Global Science & Technology (United States): 26.6%Array Information Technology (United States): 14.5%Emergent Space Technologies (United States): 3.8%6 others listed: 4.2%51%largest
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (United States)771 · 50.9%Global Science & Technology (United States)402 · 26.6%Array Information Technology (United States)220 · 14.5%Emergent Space Technologies (United States)58 · 3.8%6 others listed63 · 4.2%

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

Which fields of science does Greenbelt work in?

In 2022-now, 92% of research in Greenbelt is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (36%), Engineering (16%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (16%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2,057 fractional works · 91.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 819 fractional works · 36.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 638 fractional works · 28.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 54 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 51 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInstrumentation: 42 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRadiation: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 367 fractional works · 16.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 172 fractional works · 7.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 65 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 26 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 23 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 360 fractional works · 16.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 238 fractional works · 10.6% of its workOceanography: 70 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeophysics: 35 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 311 fractional works · 13.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 156 fractional works · 6.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 57 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEcology: 43 fractional works · 1.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 136 fractional works · 6.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 42 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 31 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 21 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 30 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 75 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 73 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 51 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 42 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 42 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMedicine: 37 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKGreenbelt2,247fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences92%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences3%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy81936.4%
    2. Engineering36716.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences36016.0%
    4. Environmental Science31113.8%
    5. Computer Science1366.0%
    6. Chemistry301.3%
    7. Materials Science180.8%
    8. Mathematics100.4%
    9. Energy50.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering20.1%
    1. Social Sciences241.1%
    2. Decision Sciences180.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting140.6%
    4. Arts and Humanities110.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance50.2%
    6. Psychology30.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology512.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences150.7%
    3. Neuroscience40.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology10.0%
    1. Medicine371.6%
    2. Health Professions50.2%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
    4. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Greenbelt strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Greenbelt is most concentrated in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science (55.4× the world share in Astronomy and Astrophysics).

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 563.6 works55×
  2. InstrumentationSubfield · 32.6 works33×
  3. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 209.2 works24×
  4. Physics and AstronomyField · 717.7 works16×
  5. OceanographySubfield · 63.1 works11×
  6. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 314.0 works10×
  7. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 135.9 works9.1×
  8. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 46.5 works7.5×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.44× its world share, 46 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.94× its world share, 29 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.66× its world share, 100 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10.22× its world share, 314 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.13× its world share, 332 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.80× its world share, 273 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.24× its world share, 17 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.35× its world share, 8 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 16.47× its world share, 718 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.09× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 32 worksMedicineNursing: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.21× its world share, 13 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.78× its world share, 15 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 16.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy16.47×718 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.22×314 works
  3. Environmental Science2.80×273 works
  4. Engineering1.13×332 works
  5. Chemistry0.94×29 works
  6. Decision Sciences0.78×15 works
  7. Computer Science0.66×100 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.44×46 works
  9. Mathematics0.35×8 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.33×2 works
  11. Chemical Engineering0.29×2 works
  12. Materials Science0.24×17 works
  13. Energy0.23×4 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.21×13 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.16×9 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.14×13 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×4 works
  18. Health Professions0.09×5 works
  19. Veterinary0.09×0 works
  20. Medicine0.08×32 works
  21. Social Sciences0.08×20 works
  22. Neuroscience0.05×2 works
  23. Psychology0.04×2 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×1 works
  25. Nursing0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Greenbelt?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Solar Wind, Climate Change, Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Satellite Observations, Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Dynamics Observatory.

▲ 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. Climate Change241▲ 3.9×75 topics
  2. Remote Sensing209▲ 7.6×33 topics
  3. Solar Wind184▲ 90×2 topics
  4. Solar System Abundances113▲ 104×1 topic
  5. Terrestrial Planets113▲ 104×1 topic
  6. Satellite Observations111▲ 50×3 topics
  7. Coronal Mass Ejections97▲ 119×1 topic
  8. Solar Dynamics Observatory97▲ 119×1 topic
  9. Electron Acceleration89▲ 60×2 topics
  10. Hydrological Modeling89▲ 17×5 topics
  11. Air Quality88▲ 21×6 topics
  12. Ionosphere87▲ 71×1 topic
  13. Magnetosphere87▲ 71×1 topic
  14. Mars76▲ 102×1 topic
  15. Martian Surface76▲ 102×1 topic
  16. Data Assimilation74▲ 20×4 topics
  17. Hydrological Cycle71▲ 31×2 topics
  18. Ozone Depletion68▲ 100×1 topic
  19. Stratospheric Water Vapor68▲ 100×1 topic
  20. Climate64▲ 30×2 topics
  21. Sea Level Rise63▲ 22×3 topics
  22. Global Warming60▲ 6.3×13 topics
  23. Magnetic Fields60▲ 40×3 topics
  24. Accretion Disks60▲ 53×2 topics
  25. Exoplanets58▲ 65×1 topic
  26. Stellar Astrophysics58▲ 65×1 topic
  27. Ocean Circulation54▲ 17×3 topics
  28. Water Quality50▲ 5.5×8 topics
  29. Star Formation48▲ 38×2 topics
  30. Gravitational Waves47▲ 37×2 topics
  31. Black Holes46▲ 21×3 topics
  32. Ice Nucleation46▲ 49×2 topics
  33. Validation45▲ 22×2 topics
  34. Aerosols45▲ 29×1 topic
  35. Atmospheric Dust45▲ 75×1 topic
  36. Hydrology45▲ 15×4 topics
  37. Shale Gas43▲ 16×2 topics
  38. Emissions42▲ 9.6×5 topics
  39. Hydraulic Fracturing41▲ 17×2 topics
  40. Natural Gas41▲ 20×2 topics

What research is done in Greenbelt?

Astro and Planetary Science: 104 fractional worksSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics: 88 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…73Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 73 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Ex…66Planetary Science and Exploration: 66 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 61 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 52 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environm…39Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 39 fractional worksCalibration and Measurement Techniques: 38 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 36 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 34 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsAtmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeAerospace Engineering

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

  1. 1 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 104 works
  2. 2 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 88 works
  3. 3 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 73 works
  4. 4 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 66 works
  5. 5 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 61 works
  6. 6 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 52 works
  7. 7 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 39 works
  8. 8 Calibration and Measurement Techniques Aerospace Engineering 38 works
  9. 9 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 36 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 34 works

Research output over time

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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 counting10%20%30%Greenbelt15.2% 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 29.2% in 2013.

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