Research in Princeton
Science Explorer records 55 research institutions in Princeton, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
- Research institutions
- 55 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 132k ▼ 2% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 25.7% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Princeton?
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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Princeton strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Princeton is most concentrated in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (7.8× the world share in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics).
- Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 38.9 works7.8×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 444.6 works6.8×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 256.4 works6.5×
- Geometry and TopologySubfield · 121.2 works5.9×
- InstrumentationSubfield · 34.0 works5.4×
- ClassicsSubfield · 40.1 works5.4×
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 Princeton?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Globalization, Black Holes, Religion, Nationalism, Machine Learning and Ocean Circulation.
- Accretion Disks
- Magnetic Fields
- Field Theories
- Star Formation
- Turbulence
- Precipitation Extremes
- Extreme Events
- Supernovae
- Public Opinion
- Hydrological Cycle
- Feminism
- Democracy
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Black Holes
- Colonialism
- Nationalism
- History
- Globalization
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Global Warming
- Religion
- Identity
- Gender
- Ethics
- Culture
- Ocean Circulation
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Quantum Gravity
- Society
- Data Assimilation
- Dark Matter
- Climate Modeling
- Entanglement
- Quantum Entanglement
- String Theory
- Holographic
- General Relativity
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
- Climate Change552▲ 1.63×109 topics
- Machine Learning426◆ 1.04×89 topics
- Deep Learning374◆ 0.87×81 topics
- Globalization370▲ 1.50×127 topics
- Global Warming230▲ 4.5×15 topics
- History225▲ 2.5×58 topics
- Religion210▲ 3.5×42 topics
- Nationalism204▲ 3.5×33 topics
- Identity201▲ 2.2×69 topics
- Colonialism190▲ 3.2×45 topics
- Gender163▲ 2.4×50 topics
- Black Holes155▲ 13×3 topics
- Ethics154▲ 2.5×48 topics
- Literature154▲ 2.3×58 topics
- Culture152▲ 2.3×37 topics
- Philosophy141▲ 2.5×41 topics
- Ocean Circulation137▲ 8.4×3 topics
- Democracy132▲ 3.0×23 topics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions126▲ 3.7×7 topics
- Feminism125▲ 3.5×21 topics
- Quantum Gravity107▲ 10×4 topics
- Hydrological Cycle102▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Society98▲ 4.1×20 topics
- Public Opinion98▲ 6.3×6 topics
- Data Assimilation98▲ 5.0×4 topics
- Supernovae96▲ 9.3×2 topics
- Dark Matter94▲ 6.5×4 topics
- Extreme Events90▲ 8.3×2 topics
- Climate Modeling88▲ 9.9×1 topic
- Precipitation Extremes88▲ 9.9×1 topic
- Entanglement87▲ 4.6×4 topics
- Turbulence85▲ 7.8×5 topics
- Quantum Entanglement85▲ 10×2 topics
- Star Formation81▲ 12×2 topics
- String Theory80▲ 11×2 topics
- Field Theories76▲ 13×1 topic
- Holographic76▲ 13×1 topic
- Magnetic Fields70▲ 8.7×3 topics
- General Relativity69▲ 8.1×2 topics
- Accretion Disks68▲ 12×2 topics
What research is done in Princeton?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 88 works
- 2 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 76 works
- 3 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 65 works
- 4 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 55 works
- 5 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 51 works
- 6 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 50 works
- 7 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 46 works
- 8 Magnetic confinement fusion research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 42 works
- 9 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 40 works
- 10 Islamic Studies and History Political Science and International Relations 39 works
Research output over time
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