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Research in Lanham

Science Explorer records 7 research institutions in Lanham, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Science Systems and Applications (United States).

Research institutions
7
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.5k
▼ 51% vs 2018-21
Citations
91k
35.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
23.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1958-2026
69 years on the record
Lanham

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 Lanham?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Science Systems and Applications (United States)Company 2,099 #8,786
2Sigma Space (United States)Company 250 #24,944 all time
3Research Support Instruments (United States)Company 159 #31,589 all time
4Doctors Community HospitalHospital / health system 17 not ranked
5Muse Technologies (United States)Company 5 not ranked
6Strategic Community ServicesNonprofit 2 not ranked
7Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderNonprofit 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.

Science Systems and Applications (United States): 82.8%Sigma Space (United States): 9.9%Research Support Instruments (United States): 6.3%Doctors Community Hospital: 0.7%3 others listed: 0.4%83%largest
Science Systems and Applications (United States)2,099 · 82.8%Sigma Space (United States)250 · 9.9%Research Support Instruments (United States)159 · 6.3%Doctors Community Hospital17 · 0.7%3 others listed9 · 0.4%

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

Which fields of science does Lanham work in?

In 2022-now, 93% of research in Lanham is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (27%), Environmental Science (25%), Engineering (18%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 232 fractional works · 92.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 68 fractional works · 27.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 57 fractional works · 22.6% of its workOceanography: 10 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 62 fractional works · 24.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 40 fractional works · 16.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 46 fractional works · 18.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 30 fractional works · 12.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 44 fractional works · 17.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 30 fractional works · 12.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKLanham251fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences93%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. Earth and Planetary Sciences6827.3%
    2. Environmental Science6224.8%
    3. Engineering4618.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy4417.7%
    5. Computer Science72.7%
    6. Mathematics20.8%
    7. Materials Science10.5%
    8. Chemistry10.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    10. Energy00.0%
    1. Decision Sciences31.1%
    2. Social Sciences20.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting10.5%
    4. Psychology10.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    1. Medicine52.0%
    2. Health Professions10.4%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Lanham strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Lanham is most concentrated in Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Global and Planetary Change (52.3× the world share in Atmospheric Science).

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 52.1 works52×
  2. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 28.3 works24×
  3. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 37.0 works22×
  4. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 62.5 works18×
  5. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 28.0 works11×
  6. Physics and AstronomyField · 42.3 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: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.27× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17.67× its world share, 62 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.23× its world share, 42 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.00× its world share, 56 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.71× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 8.42× its world share, 42 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 17.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences17.67×62 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy8.42×42 works
  3. Environmental Science5.00×56 works
  4. Engineering1.23×42 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.77×2 works
  6. Mathematics0.71×2 works
  7. Veterinary0.36×0 works
  8. Computer Science0.27×5 works
  9. Chemistry0.25×1 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.19×1 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×2 works
  12. Psychology0.16×1 works
  13. Health Professions0.15×1 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.12×1 works
  15. Chemical Engineering0.11×0 works
  16. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×0 works
  18. Medicine0.09×4 works
  19. Dentistry0.08×0 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.06×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×0 works
  23. Social Sciences0.05×1 works
  24. Neuroscience0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Lanham?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Satellite Observations, Air Quality, Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, Stratospheric Water Vapor, Hydrological Cycle and On-Orbit Performance.

▲ 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. Remote Sensing40▲ 13×25 topics
  2. Climate Change32▲ 4.8×45 topics
  3. Satellite Observations32▲ 128×3 topics
  4. Air Quality31▲ 66×6 topics
  5. Ozone Depletion25▲ 330×1 topic
  6. Stratospheric Water Vapor25▲ 330×1 topic
  7. Hydrological Cycle21▲ 84×2 topics
  8. On-Orbit Performance21▲ 777×1 topic
  9. Radiometric Calibration21▲ 777×1 topic
  10. Climate20▲ 82×2 topics
  11. Aerosols17▲ 97×1 topic
  12. Atmospheric Dust17▲ 250×1 topic
  13. Water Quality16▲ 16×6 topics
  14. Atmospheric Aerosols14▲ 96×1 topic
  15. Black Carbon14▲ 96×1 topic
  16. Emissions13▲ 27×4 topics
  17. Shale Gas13▲ 43×2 topics
  18. Atmospheric13▲ 108×1 topic
  19. Methane13▲ 108×1 topic
  20. Global Warming12▲ 11×9 topics
  21. Hydrological Modeling11▲ 18×5 topics
  22. Data Assimilation11▲ 27×4 topics
  23. Quantum Gravity8▲ 38×3 topics
  24. Ocean Circulation8▲ 23×3 topics
  25. Boundary Layer7▲ 23×2 topics
  26. Ensemble Kalman Filter7▲ 28×2 topics
  27. Convective Parameterization7▲ 50×1 topic
  28. Mesoscale Modeling7▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Supernovae7▲ 33×2 topics
  30. Cosmological Parameters7▲ 48×1 topic
  31. Dark Energy7▲ 41×1 topic
  32. Sea Level Rise6▲ 20×3 topics
  33. Black Holes6▲ 25×3 topics
  34. Eutrophication6▲ 22×2 topics
  35. Harmful Algal Blooms6▲ 29×3 topics
  36. Dissolved Organic Matter6▲ 49×1 topic
  37. Oceanic Carbon Cycle6▲ 49×1 topic
  38. Sparse Representation6▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Detection5▲ 7.7×3 topics
  40. Validation5▲ 24×2 topics

What research is done in Lanham?

Atmospheric Ozone and Cl…24Atmospheric Ozone and Climate: 24 fractional worksCalibration and Measurement Techniques: 20 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 15 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 13 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 12 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitatio…7Cosmology and Gravitation Theories: 7 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 6 fractional worksInfrared Target Detection Methodologies: 5 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 5 fractional worksRelativity and Gravitational Theory: 4 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceAerospace EngineeringGlobal and Planetary ChangeAstronomy and Astrophysics1 others

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

  1. 1 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 24 works
  2. 2 Calibration and Measurement Techniques Aerospace Engineering 20 works
  3. 3 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 15 works
  4. 4 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 13 works
  5. 5 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 12 works
  6. 6 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 7 works
  7. 7 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 6 works
  8. 8 Infrared Target Detection Methodologies Aerospace Engineering 5 works
  9. 9 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 5 works
  10. 10 Relativity and Gravitational Theory Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 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 counting20%40%60%Lanham11.1% 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 46.0% in 2013.

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