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Research in Ithaca

Science Explorer records 38 research institutions in Ithaca, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Cornell University, Ithaca College and New York State University College of Human Ecology.

Research institutions
38
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
208k
▲ 3% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
23.4%
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 Ithaca?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Cornell UniversityUniversity 199,861 #31
2Ithaca CollegeUniversity 5,724 #9,507
3New York State University College of Human EcologyUniversity 537 #13,672
4Market MattersNonprofit 443 #14,742 all time
5Fracture Analysis Consultants (United States)Company 346 #24,124 all time
6Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & HealthResearch facility 339 #11,729 all time
7Museum of the EarthArchive 101 not ranked
8GrammaTech (United States)Company 100 not ranked
9Park FoundationNonprofit 95 not ranked
10Transonic Systems (United States)Company 77 not ranked
11SimBiotic Software (United States)Company 57 not ranked
12CorSolutions (United States)Company 49 not ranked
13Monolith Semiconductor (United States)Company 35 not ranked
14Innovative Dynamics (United States)Company 31 not ranked
15Agave BioSystems (United States)Company 20 not ranked
16Indian Creek FarmInstitution 14 not ranked
17SciencenterNonprofit 12 not ranked
18iFyber (United States)Company 11 not ranked
19Rheonix (United States)Company 11 not ranked
20Synfonica (United States)Company 10 not ranked
21History Center in Tompkins CountyNonprofit 10 not ranked
22MiTeGen (United States)Company 9 not ranked
23Jan Biotech (United States)Company 7 not ranked
24PFA Consulting (United States)Company 6 not ranked
25Glycobia (United States)Company 4 not ranked
26Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist StudiesInstitution 3 not ranked
27Super Pulse (United States)Company 3 not ranked
28Red Tail Hawk Corporation (United States)Company 3 not ranked
29St. James AME Zion ChurchInstitution 2 not ranked
30Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational ServicesUniversity 2 not ranked
31Xelera Research (United States)Company 2 not ranked
32Widetronix (United States)Company 2 not ranked
33Vybion (United States)Company 1 not ranked
34Tompkins County Public LibraryArchive 1 not ranked
35Carrera Bioscience (United States)Company 1 not ranked
36New York Space Grant ConsortiumInstitution 0 not ranked
37e2e Materials (United States)Company 0 not ranked
38Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyInstitution 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.

Cornell University: 96.1%Ithaca College: 2.8%New York State University College of Human Ecology: 0.3%Market Matters: 0.2%31 others listed: 0.7%96%largest
Cornell University200k · 96.1%Ithaca College5,724 · 2.8%New York State University College of Human Ecology537 · 0.3%Market Matters443 · 0.2%31 others listed1,364 · 0.7%

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

What is Ithaca strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ithaca is most concentrated in Equine, General Decision Sciences and Developmental Biology (8.4× the world share in Equine).

  1. EquineSubfield · 23.5 works8.4×
  2. General Decision SciencesSubfield · 23.2 works5.7×
  3. Developmental BiologySubfield · 26.6 works5.6×
  4. VeterinaryField · 101.1 works3.5×
  5. TransplantationSubfield · 28.7 works3.0×
  6. Small AnimalsSubfield · 77.6 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 Ithaca?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Machine Learning, Oxidative Stress, Globalization and Cancer.

▲ 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. Epidemiology984▲ 1.16×135 topics
  2. Climate Change717▲ 1.25×111 topics
  3. Machine Learning554▼ 0.79×89 topics
  4. Inflammation505◆ 1.14×83 topics
  5. Deep Learning486▼ 0.66×81 topics
  6. Globalization432◆ 1.03×140 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress411▲ 1.18×62 topics
  8. Sustainability383▼ 0.74×110 topics
  9. Cancer352▲ 1.23×57 topics
  10. Quality of Life316◆ 1.03×55 topics
  11. Public Health316◆ 1.02×63 topics
  12. Immunotherapy313▲ 2.1×19 topics
  13. Mental Health286◆ 0.91×45 topics
  14. Treatment284◆ 1.10×51 topics
  15. Risk Factors257◆ 1.10×36 topics
  16. Diagnosis240▲ 1.21×41 topics
  17. Chemotherapy237▲ 1.58×25 topics
  18. Biodiversity236▲ 1.48×33 topics
  19. Clinical Trials230▲ 1.61×19 topics
  20. Cardiovascular Disease228◆ 0.96×38 topics
  21. Biomarkers216▲ 1.48×18 topics
  22. Depression206◆ 1.10×26 topics
  23. Gene Expression195▲ 1.50×20 topics
  24. Invasive Species193▲ 2.1×21 topics
  25. Obesity188▲ 1.16×26 topics
  26. Regulation180▲ 1.56×26 topics
  27. Immune Response178▲ 1.47×23 topics
  28. Neurological Disorders177▲ 1.46×20 topics
  29. Prognostic Factors172▲ 1.84×14 topics
  30. Gender168▲ 1.45×53 topics
  31. Tumor Microenvironment167▲ 1.76×8 topics
  32. Colonialism163▲ 1.61×42 topics
  33. Precision Medicine155▲ 1.55×8 topics
  34. Genetic Mutations149▲ 1.62×23 topics
  35. Genomics136▲ 2.1×13 topics
  36. Targeted Therapy134▲ 2.8×5 topics
  37. Emotion127▲ 2.9×12 topics
  38. Habitat Fragmentation126▲ 2.7×5 topics
  39. Global Change123▲ 2.2×7 topics
  40. Cancer Immunotherapy102▲ 3.1×3 topics

What research is done in Ithaca?

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 68 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studiesEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 66 works
  3. 3 Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsCancer Research 59 works
  4. 4 CAR-T cell therapy researchOncology 56 works
  5. 5 Reproductive Biology and FertilityPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 49 works
  6. 6 CRISPR and Genetic EngineeringMolecular Biology 48 works
  7. 7 Gut microbiota and healthMolecular Biology 45 works
  8. 8 RNA and protein synthesis mechanismsMolecular Biology 41 works
  9. 9 Ethics and Social Impacts of AISafety Research 41 works
  10. 10 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationHealth Informatics 40 works

Research output over time

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