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Research in Idaho Falls

Science Explorer records 8 research institutions in Idaho Falls, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Idaho National Laboratory and Center for Advanced Energy Studies.

Research institutions
8
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
9.7k
▲ 112% vs 2018-21
Citations
147k
15.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1952-2026
75 years on the record
Idaho Falls

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 Idaho Falls?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Idaho National LaboratoryResearch facility 9,023 #7,016
2Center for Advanced Energy StudiesUniversity 317 #20,399
3International Isotopes (United States)Company 233 #21,990 all time
4Eastern Idaho Technical CollegeUniversity 55 not ranked
5Rocky Mountain Diabetes and Osteoporosis CenterHospital / health system 14 not ranked
6Idaho Falls Public LibraryArchive 10 not ranked
7Optimal Solutions Software (United States)Company 3 not ranked
8Pearlhill Technologies (United States)Company 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.

Idaho National Laboratory: 93.4%Center for Advanced Energy Studies: 3.3%International Isotopes (United States): 2.4%Eastern Idaho Technical College: 0.6%4 others listed: 0.3%93%largest
Idaho National Laboratory9,023 · 93.4%Center for Advanced Energy Studies317 · 3.3%International Isotopes (United States)233 · 2.4%Eastern Idaho Technical College55 · 0.6%4 others listed28 · 0.3%

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

Which fields of science does Idaho Falls work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research in Idaho Falls is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (49%), Materials Science (18%), Computer Science (7%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2,520 fractional works · 90.1% of its workEngineering: 1,360 fractional works · 48.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 318 fractional works · 11.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 225 fractional works · 8.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 201 fractional works · 7.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 113 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 104 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 91 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 78 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 62 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 42 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 40 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 37 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 27 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 515 fractional works · 18.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 456 fractional works · 16.3% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCeramics and Composites: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 182 fractional works · 6.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 55 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 49 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 28 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoftware: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 139 fractional works · 5.0% of its workRadiation: 84 fractional works · 3.0% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 99 fractional works · 3.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 27 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workChemistry: 78 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 42 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 66 fractional works · 2.3% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 31 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCatalysis: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 51 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 27 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 27 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeophysics: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 151 fractional works · 5.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 82 fractional works · 2.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 55 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 32 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 70 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMedicine: 52 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 56 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 24 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKIdaho Falls2,798fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences5%

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. Engineering1,36048.6%
    2. Materials Science51518.4%
    3. Computer Science1826.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy1395.0%
    5. Environmental Science993.5%
    6. Chemistry782.8%
    7. Chemical Engineering662.3%
    8. Energy511.8%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences271.0%
    10. Mathematics50.2%
    1. Decision Sciences822.9%
    2. Social Sciences321.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting160.6%
    4. Psychology140.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance60.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.1%
    1. Medicine521.9%
    2. Health Professions160.6%
    3. Nursing10.0%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology240.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences240.8%
    3. Neuroscience40.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology20.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Idaho Falls strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Idaho Falls is most concentrated in Radiation, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (22.2× the world share in Radiation).

  1. RadiationSubfield · 79.8 works22×
  2. Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 89.5 works14×
  3. Fluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesSubfield · 28.5 works14×
  4. Statistics, Probability and UncertaintySubfield · 52.8 works12×
  5. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 297.8 works9.7×
  6. Materials ChemistrySubfield · 432.5 works8.4×
← 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: 0.16× its world share, 20 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 22 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 6.53× its world share, 60 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.76× its world share, 72 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.85× its world share, 172 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 23 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.92× its world share, 46 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.26× its world share, 1,281 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.69× its world share, 90 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 5.31× its world share, 486 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.21× its world share, 128 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.22× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 44 worksMedicineNursing: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.19× its world share, 16 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.16× its world share, 80 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.17× its world share, 14 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 29 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemical Engineering, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemical Engineering6.53×60 works
  2. Materials Science5.31×486 works
  3. Engineering3.26×1,281 works
  4. Decision Sciences3.16×80 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy2.21×128 works
  6. Energy1.92×46 works
  7. Chemistry1.76×72 works
  8. Computer Science0.85×172 works
  9. Environmental Science0.69×90 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.56×23 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.30×3 works
  12. Health Professions0.22×15 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.19×16 works
  14. Psychology0.17×14 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×20 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.16×22 works
  17. Mathematics0.11×3 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×6 works
  19. Medicine0.09×44 works
  20. Social Sciences0.09×29 works
  21. Neuroscience0.08×4 works
  22. Nursing0.08×1 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×2 works
  24. Dentistry0.02×0 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.02×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Idaho Falls?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Molten Salt, Nuclear Reactor, Oxidation Resistance, Hydrogen Embrittlement, Density Functional Theory, High Temperature Behavior, Accident Tolerant Fuels and Fuel Cladding.

▲ 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. Molten Salt211▲ 240×1 topic
  2. Nuclear Reactor211▲ 240×1 topic
  3. Oxidation Resistance195▲ 66×3 topics
  4. Hydrogen Embrittlement191▲ 83×3 topics
  5. Density Functional Theory184▲ 64×3 topics
  6. High Temperature Behavior183▲ 118×2 topics
  7. Accident Tolerant Fuels183▲ 188×1 topic
  8. Fuel Cladding183▲ 188×1 topic
  9. Machine Learning132▲ 1.41×58 topics
  10. Renewable Energy109▲ 2.7×38 topics
  11. Thermal Properties98▲ 28×6 topics
  12. Raman Spectroscopy97▲ 18×6 topics
  13. Oxidation Behavior97▲ 57×2 topics
  14. Microstructural Characterization91▲ 157×1 topic
  15. Nuclear Graphite91▲ 157×1 topic
  16. Finite Element Analysis82▲ 13×8 topics
  17. Mechanical Properties80▲ 2.9×36 topics
  18. Energy Storage76▲ 4.2×12 topics
  19. Nuclear Fuel75▲ 170×1 topic
  20. Radiation Protection75▲ 170×1 topic
  21. Data Analysis67▲ 9.2×7 topics
  22. Tomography67▲ 14×5 topics
  23. Small-Angle Scattering63▲ 44×2 topics
  24. Neutron Activation Analysis63▲ 69×1 topic
  25. Neutron Imaging63▲ 69×1 topic
  26. Microstructure62▲ 4.3×15 topics
  27. Lithium-ion Batteries61▲ 5.2×4 topics
  28. Molecular Dynamics Simulations58▲ 48×2 topics
  29. fusion materials54▲ 103×1 topic
  30. radiation damage54▲ 103×1 topic
  31. Reliability Evaluation54▲ 37×3 topics
  32. Actinides53▲ 37×2 topics
  33. Thermal Management50▲ 5.5×7 topics
  34. Safety Assessment49▲ 43×2 topics
  35. Large Eddy Simulation47▲ 50×2 topics
  36. Bayesian Networks47▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Fault Tree Analysis46▲ 35×1 topic
  38. Quantitative Risk Assessment46▲ 35×1 topic
  39. Passive Systems46▲ 104×1 topic
  40. Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis46▲ 104×1 topic

What research is done in Idaho Falls?

Nuclear reactor physics …200Nuclear reactor physics and engineering: 200 fractional worksNuclear Materials and Pr…175Nuclear Materials and Properties: 175 fractional worksGraphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies: 89 fractional worksNuclear and radioactivity studies: 74 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Applications: 61 fractional worksFusion materials and tec…52Fusion materials and technologies: 52 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis: 44 fractional worksNuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics: 40 fractional worksRadioactive element chemistry and processing: 34 fractional worksFault Detection and Control Systems: 27 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringMaterials ChemistrySafety, Risk, Reliability and QualityRadiation3 others

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

  1. 1 Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Aerospace Engineering 200 works
  2. 2 Nuclear Materials and Properties Materials Chemistry 175 works
  3. 3 Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies Materials Chemistry 89 works
  4. 4 Nuclear and radioactivity studies Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 74 works
  5. 5 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 61 works
  6. 6 Fusion materials and technologies Materials Chemistry 52 works
  7. 7 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 44 works
  8. 8 Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics Aerospace Engineering 40 works
  9. 9 Radioactive element chemistry and processing Inorganic Chemistry 34 works
  10. 10 Fault Detection and Control Systems Control and Systems Engineering 27 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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 counting20%40%Idaho Falls14.3% 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 30.6% in 2014.

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