Research in Huntsville
Science Explorer records 69 research institutions in Huntsville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Alabama in Huntsville, Simulation Technologies (United States) and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University.
- Research institutions
- 69 9 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 26k ▼ 6% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 422k 15.9 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 14.6% 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 Huntsville?
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 Huntsville work in?
In 2022-now, 58% of research in Huntsville is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (26%), Medicine (11%), Physics and Astronomy (9%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical 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
- Physical Sciences1,94958.1%
- Engineering88426.4%
- Physics and Astronomy3129.3%
- Computer Science3089.2%
- Environmental Science1594.7%
- Materials Science1003.0%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences802.4%
- Mathematics471.4%
- Chemistry331.0%
- Energy130.4%
- Chemical Engineering120.4%
- Social Sciences58417.4%
- Social Sciences2537.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting772.3%
- Arts and Humanities682.0%
- Psychology662.0%
- Decision Sciences621.9%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance581.7%
- Health Sciences44613.3%
- Medicine36310.8%
- Health Professions641.9%
- Nursing140.4%
- Veterinary40.1%
- Dentistry10.0%
- Life Sciences37411.1%
What is Huntsville strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Huntsville is most concentrated in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Physics and Astronomy (9.5× the world share in Astronomy and Astrophysics).
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 137.7 works9.5×
- Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 156.8 works4.8×
- Physics and AstronomyField · 255.7 works4.1×
- Computational MechanicsSubfield · 62.9 works3.9×
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: Physics and Astronomy, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physics and Astronomy4.12×256 works
- Decision Sciences1.98×53 works
- Engineering1.84×769 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.58×69 works
- Computer Science1.12×242 works
- Mathematics1.00×33 works
- Chemical Engineering0.99×10 works
- Environmental Science0.98×136 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.94×140 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.87×115 works
- Materials Science0.81×79 works
- Nursing0.81×11 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.78×46 works
- Arts and Humanities0.77×62 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.74×66 works
- Health Professions0.71×52 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.67×19 works
- Psychology0.65×55 works
- Veterinary0.62×2 works
- Social Sciences0.61×214 works
- Chemistry0.59×26 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.57×6 works
- Medicine0.55×294 works
- Neuroscience0.52×23 works
- Energy0.43×11 works
- Dentistry0.08×1 works
Which keywords describe research in Huntsville?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Solar Wind, Machine Learning, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Digital Education, Tourism Development, Deep Learning and Formative Assessment.
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Industrial Enterprises
- Terrestrial Planets
- Ensemble Kalman Filter
- Regression Rate Behavior
- Metamaterials
- Data Assimilation
- Magnetosphere
- Electron Acceleration
- Simulation
- Large-Eddy Simulation
- Student Competencies
- Formative Assessment
- Language Teaching
- Critical Thinking
- Teaching Methods
- Heat Transfer
- Solar Wind
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Remote Sensing
- Neural Networks
- Pedagogy
- Biosensors
- Digital Education
- Tourism Development
- Educational Technologies
- Coronal Mass Ejections
- Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Combustion Instabilities
- Ionosphere
- Optical Modulators
- Boundary Layer
- Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
- Vortex Dynamics
- Solar System Abundances
- Nanophotonics
- Innovation Economics
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 Learning146▲ 1.31×79 topics
- Deep Learning122◆ 1.05×73 topics
- Climate Change106▲ 1.16×86 topics
- Sustainability78◆ 0.96×68 topics
- Remote Sensing69▲ 1.68×34 topics
- Solar Wind68▲ 22×2 topics
- Neural Networks56◆ 1.07×34 topics
- Heat Transfer53▲ 3.2×18 topics
- Pedagogy46▲ 2.8×11 topics
- Teaching Methods46▲ 8.4×6 topics
- Biosensors43▲ 2.6×12 topics
- Critical Thinking41▲ 10×4 topics
- Digital Education40▲ 8.1×5 topics
- Language Teaching40▲ 4.5×3 topics
- Tourism Development40▲ 8.7×2 topics
- Formative Assessment40▲ 14×2 topics
- Educational Technologies39▲ 13×1 topic
- Student Competencies39▲ 18×1 topic
- Coronal Mass Ejections38▲ 31×1 topic
- Large-Eddy Simulation38▲ 6.0×5 topics
- Solar Dynamics Observatory38▲ 31×1 topic
- Simulation37▲ 4.3×16 topics
- Combustion Instabilities31▲ 15×2 topics
- Electron Acceleration30▲ 14×2 topics
- Ionosphere30▲ 16×1 topic
- Magnetosphere30▲ 16×1 topic
- Optical Modulators29▲ 6.1×3 topics
- Data Assimilation25▲ 4.6×4 topics
- Boundary Layer24▲ 5.7×4 topics
- Metamaterials24▲ 5.0×5 topics
- Hybrid Rocket Propulsion23▲ 32×1 topic
- Regression Rate Behavior23▲ 32×1 topic
- Vortex Dynamics20▲ 5.4×4 topics
- Ensemble Kalman Filter20▲ 6.0×2 topics
- Solar System Abundances20▲ 12×1 topic
- Terrestrial Planets20▲ 12×1 topic
- Nanophotonics20▲ 6.1×3 topics
- Industrial Enterprises18▲ 16×1 topic
- Innovation Economics18▲ 16×1 topic
- Complex Adaptive Systems18▲ 18×3 topics
What research is done in Huntsville?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 33 works
- 2 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 29 works
- 3 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 25 works
- 4 Rocket and propulsion systems research Aerospace Engineering 20 works
- 5 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 18 works
- 6 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 17 works
- 7 Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies Aerospace Engineering 14 works
- 8 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 14 works
- 9 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 14 works
- 10 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 12 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 20.0% in 2016.
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