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Research in Livermore

Science Explorer records 13 research institutions in Livermore, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Security.

Research institutions
13
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
56k
▲ 34% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9M
34.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
12.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Livermore

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 Livermore?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryResearch facility 37,981 #858
2Lawrence Livermore National SecurityGovernment institution 1,649 #20,641
3Las Positas CollegeUniversity 81 not ranked
4Acumen Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 34 not ranked
5FormFactor (United States)Company 24 not ranked
6Sensor Concepts (United States)Company 21 not ranked
7Grainflow Dynamics (United States)Company 20 not ranked
8Wang NMR (United States)Company 15 not ranked
9Hertz FoundationNonprofit 13 not ranked
10Shal Technologies (United States)Company 12 not ranked
11Ocellus (United States)Company 7 not ranked
12SunvaporInstitution 6 not ranked
13UltraCell (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.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: 95.3%Lawrence Livermore National Security: 4.1%Las Positas College: 0.2%Acumen Pharmaceuticals (United States): 0.1%9 others listed: 0.3%95%largest
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory38k · 95.3%Lawrence Livermore National Security1,649 · 4.1%Las Positas College81 · 0.2%Acumen Pharmaceuticals (United States)34 · 0.1%9 others listed120 · 0.3%

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

Which fields of science does Livermore work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research in Livermore is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (34%), Physics and Astronomy (16%), Materials Science (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 5,179 fractional works · 89.7% of its workEngineering: 1,971 fractional works · 34.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 480 fractional works · 8.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 270 fractional works · 4.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 243 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 213 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 210 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 198 fractional works · 3.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 92 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 65 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 61 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 936 fractional works · 16.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 258 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 215 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 204 fractional works · 3.5% of its workRadiation: 153 fractional works · 2.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 58 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInstrumentation: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 583 fractional works · 10.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 413 fractional works · 7.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 41 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMetals and Alloys: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCeramics and Composites: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 497 fractional works · 8.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 173 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 104 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 56 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 51 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHardware and Architecture: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 441 fractional works · 7.6% of its workOceanography: 160 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeophysics: 153 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 97 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 370 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 143 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 91 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 43 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 35 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 182 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 55 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 42 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 85 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 41 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCatalysis: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 64 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 57 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNumerical Analysis: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 252 fractional works · 4.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 161 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 110 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiophysics: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 45 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 177 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMedicine: 158 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 55 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 87 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 165 fractional works · 2.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 81 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 35 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLivermore5,773fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences3%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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1,97134.2%
    2. Physics and Astronomy93616.2%
    3. Materials Science58310.1%
    4. Computer Science4978.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences4417.6%
    6. Environmental Science3706.4%
    7. Chemistry1823.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering851.5%
    9. Energy641.1%
    10. Mathematics490.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1612.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences450.8%
    3. Neuroscience210.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology140.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics110.2%
    1. Medicine1582.7%
    2. Health Professions150.3%
    3. Nursing20.0%
    4. Dentistry20.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Decision Sciences811.4%
    2. Social Sciences390.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities160.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting120.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance120.2%
    6. Psychology60.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Livermore strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Livermore is most concentrated in Radiation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Environmental Chemistry (19.9× the world share in Radiation).

  1. RadiationSubfield · 147.5 works20×
  2. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 235.3 works14×
  3. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 141.6 works12×
  4. OceanographySubfield · 157.9 works10×
  5. Fluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesSubfield · 38.0 works9.1×
  6. GeophysicsSubfield · 143.7 works7.6×
← 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, 40 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.48× its world share, 139 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.22× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 20 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.50× its world share, 10 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 4.22× its world share, 80 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.02× its world share, 171 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.11× its world share, 464 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.91× its world share, 416 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.18× its world share, 58 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.30× its world share, 1,864 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.28× its world share, 344 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.88× its world share, 543 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.64× its world share, 41 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 7.31× its world share, 878 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 145 worksMedicineNursing: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 15 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 12 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.49× its world share, 78 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 37 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy7.31×878 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.91×416 works
  3. Chemical Engineering4.22×80 works
  4. Materials Science2.88×543 works
  5. Engineering2.30×1,864 works
  6. Chemistry2.02×171 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.49×78 works
  8. Environmental Science1.28×344 works
  9. Energy1.18×58 works
  10. Computer Science1.11×464 works
  11. Mathematics0.64×41 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.50×10 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.48×139 works
  14. Neuroscience0.23×20 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.22×12 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×40 works
  17. Medicine0.14×145 works
  18. Health Professions0.10×15 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.10×15 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.09×11 works
  21. Veterinary0.07×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.07×12 works
  23. Dentistry0.06×2 works
  24. Nursing0.05×1 works
  25. Social Sciences0.05×37 works
  26. Psychology0.03×5 works

Which keywords describe research in Livermore?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Tomography, Geodetic Measurements, Sea Level Rise, Hydrological Modeling, GRACE, groundwater depletion, Solar Wind and Microbial Communities.

▲ 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 Change274▲ 1.74×69 topics
  2. Machine Learning260▲ 1.35×72 topics
  3. Tomography208▲ 20×5 topics
  4. Geodetic Measurements160▲ 26×2 topics
  5. Sea Level Rise157▲ 22×3 topics
  6. Hydrological Modeling155▲ 11×5 topics
  7. Microbial Communities154▲ 6.1×10 topics
  8. Mechanical Properties153▲ 2.7×34 topics
  9. GRACE145▲ 52×1 topic
  10. groundwater depletion145▲ 52×1 topic
  11. Solar Wind143▲ 27×2 topics
  12. Electron Acceleration136▲ 35×2 topics
  13. Methane Oxidation136▲ 30×2 topics
  14. Anaerobic136▲ 37×1 topic
  15. Gas Hydrates136▲ 37×1 topic
  16. Ionosphere127▲ 40×1 topic
  17. Magnetosphere127▲ 40×1 topic
  18. Electron Beams118▲ 118×1 topic
  19. Laser-Plasma Accelerators118▲ 118×1 topic
  20. Data Analysis109▲ 7.3×9 topics
  21. Spectroscopy102▲ 11×11 topics
  22. Heat Transfer99▲ 3.5×17 topics
  23. Molecular Dynamics98▲ 9.7×7 topics
  24. Additive Manufacturing90▲ 5.1×8 topics
  25. Superconductivity90▲ 9.0×9 topics
  26. Small-Angle Scattering87▲ 29×2 topics
  27. Radiography85▲ 42×2 topics
  28. Crystal Growth85▲ 5.4×11 topics
  29. Neutron Activation Analysis85▲ 45×1 topic
  30. Neutron Imaging85▲ 45×1 topic
  31. Molecular Dynamics Simulations80▲ 32×2 topics
  32. Hydrogen Embrittlement79▲ 17×3 topics
  33. Plate Tectonics76▲ 8.7×3 topics
  34. Density Functional Theory71▲ 12×6 topics
  35. Oxidation Resistance70▲ 11×3 topics
  36. High-Performance Computing68▲ 15×3 topics
  37. Frequency Conversion68▲ 28×3 topics
  38. Space Exploration68▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Crystal Structure Prediction67▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Mantle Dynamics67▲ 24×1 topic

What research is done in Livermore?

Geophysics and Gravity Measurements: 145 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 135 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…127Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 127 fractional worksLaser-Plasma Interaction…109Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics: 109 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Applications: 83 fractional worksHigh-pressure geophysics and materials: 62 fractional worksLaser-induced spectrosco…61Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma: 61 fractional worksNuclear Materials and Properties: 48 fractional worksLaser Design and Applications: 44 fractional worksNuclear reactor physics and engineering: 42 fractional works
OceanographyEnvironmental ChemistryAstronomy and AstrophysicsNuclear and High Energy Physics6 others

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

  1. 1 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 145 works
  2. 2 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 135 works
  3. 3 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 127 works
  4. 4 Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 109 works
  5. 5 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 83 works
  6. 6 High-pressure geophysics and materials Geophysics 62 works
  7. 7 Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma Mechanics of Materials 61 works
  8. 8 Nuclear Materials and Properties Materials Chemistry 48 works
  9. 9 Laser Design and Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 44 works
  10. 10 Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Aerospace Engineering 42 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%Livermore17.2% 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 32.7% in 2010.

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