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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%

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 Princeton?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Princeton UniversityUniversity 97,053 #40
2Institute for Advanced StudyResearch facility 8,964 #1,257
3Educational Testing ServiceNonprofit 5,305 #11,128
4Siemens (United States)Company 3,249 #11,690
5Textile Research InstituteResearch facility 2,459 #12,339
6Princeton Theological SeminaryUniversity 2,247 #12,813
7NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics LaboratoryGovernment institution 1,806 #3,140
8Mathematica Policy ResearchResearch facility 1,618 #14,844
9Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNonprofit 1,552 #3,677 all time
10Princeton Public SchoolsUniversity 1,223 #6,551
11Covance (United States)Company 1,207 #18,014
12Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (United States)Company 1,146 #13,213
13Institute of Semitic StudiesNonprofit 1,084 #15,022
14Otsuka (United States)Company 509 #15,777
15Community Options (United States)Company 459 #27,011
16Climate CentralNonprofit 428 #10,037
17Ocean Power Technologies (United States)Company 413 #21,444 all time
18Genmab (United States)Company 179 #17,755
19Center Of Theological InquiryNonprofit 138 #25,339 all time
20American School of Classical Studies at AthensUniversity 136 #33,417 all time
21Advanced Media Research (United States)Company 109 not ranked
22Munich Re (United States)Company 94 not ranked
23The Princeton FestivalNonprofit 68 not ranked
24Princeton Public LibraryArchive 65 not ranked
25Taiho Oncology (United States)Company 64 not ranked
26Nova Photonics (United States)Company 51 not ranked
27Advaxis (United States)Company 51 not ranked
28SciTec (United States)Company 49 not ranked
29Soligenix (United States)Company 34 not ranked
30Witherspoon InstituteResearch facility 30 not ranked
31TreadStone Technologies (United States)Company 28 not ranked
32Snowdon (United States)Company 22 not ranked
33Agile Therapeutics (United States)Company 22 not ranked
34Mikros Systems (United States)Company 19 not ranked
35Twinleaf (United States)Company 19 not ranked
36Semandex Networks (United States)Company 17 not ranked
37Theradex Oncology (United States)Company 17 not ranked
38Agennix (United States)Company 15 not ranked
39NovaFlux (United States)Company 14 not ranked
40Viocare (United States)Company 13 not ranked
41Metal Powder Industries FederationNonprofit 11 not ranked
42Berlitz (United States)Company 11 not ranked
43Institute for Citizens & ScholarsNonprofit 11 not ranked
44Learning AllyNonprofit 7 not ranked
45Princeton Medical InstituteResearch facility 6 not ranked
46JM FoundationNonprofit 6 not ranked
47Milbank FoundationNonprofit 5 not ranked
48Princeton Technology Advisors (United States)Company 2 not ranked
49Fund For New JerseyNonprofit 2 not ranked
50iCeutica (United States)Company 1 not ranked
51Global Medical Institutes (United States)Company 1 not ranked
52Rita Allen FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
53USRowingNonprofit 0 not ranked
54Mgenuity (United States)Company 0 not ranked
55AMREP (United States)Company 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.

Princeton University: 73.5%Institute for Advanced Study: 6.8%Educational Testing Service: 4.0%Siemens (United States): 2.5%48 others listed: 13.2%74%largest
Princeton University97k · 73.5%Institute for Advanced Study8,964 · 6.8%Educational Testing Service5,305 · 4.0%Siemens (United States)3,249 · 2.5%48 others listed17k · 13.2%

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).

  1. Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 38.9 works7.8×
  2. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 444.6 works6.8×
  3. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 256.4 works6.5×
  4. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 121.2 works5.9×
  5. InstrumentationSubfield · 34.0 works5.4×
  6. ClassicsSubfield · 40.1 works5.4×
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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 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.

▲ 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. Climate Change552▲ 1.63×109 topics
  2. Machine Learning426◆ 1.04×89 topics
  3. Deep Learning374◆ 0.87×81 topics
  4. Globalization370▲ 1.50×127 topics
  5. Global Warming230▲ 4.5×15 topics
  6. History225▲ 2.5×58 topics
  7. Religion210▲ 3.5×42 topics
  8. Nationalism204▲ 3.5×33 topics
  9. Identity201▲ 2.2×69 topics
  10. Colonialism190▲ 3.2×45 topics
  11. Gender163▲ 2.4×50 topics
  12. Black Holes155▲ 13×3 topics
  13. Ethics154▲ 2.5×48 topics
  14. Literature154▲ 2.3×58 topics
  15. Culture152▲ 2.3×37 topics
  16. Philosophy141▲ 2.5×41 topics
  17. Ocean Circulation137▲ 8.4×3 topics
  18. Democracy132▲ 3.0×23 topics
  19. Greenhouse Gas Emissions126▲ 3.7×7 topics
  20. Feminism125▲ 3.5×21 topics
  21. Quantum Gravity107▲ 10×4 topics
  22. Hydrological Cycle102▲ 8.5×2 topics
  23. Society98▲ 4.1×20 topics
  24. Public Opinion98▲ 6.3×6 topics
  25. Data Assimilation98▲ 5.0×4 topics
  26. Supernovae96▲ 9.3×2 topics
  27. Dark Matter94▲ 6.5×4 topics
  28. Extreme Events90▲ 8.3×2 topics
  29. Climate Modeling88▲ 9.9×1 topic
  30. Precipitation Extremes88▲ 9.9×1 topic
  31. Entanglement87▲ 4.6×4 topics
  32. Turbulence85▲ 7.8×5 topics
  33. Quantum Entanglement85▲ 10×2 topics
  34. Star Formation81▲ 12×2 topics
  35. String Theory80▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Field Theories76▲ 13×1 topic
  37. Holographic76▲ 13×1 topic
  38. Magnetic Fields70▲ 8.7×3 topics
  39. General Relativity69▲ 8.1×2 topics
  40. Accretion Disks68▲ 12×2 topics

What research is done in Princeton?

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 88 works
  2. 2 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 76 works
  3. 3 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 65 works
  4. 4 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 55 works
  5. 5 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 51 works
  6. 6 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 50 works
  7. 7 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 46 works
  8. 8 Magnetic confinement fusion research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 42 works
  9. 9 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 40 works
  10. 10 Islamic Studies and History Political Science and International Relations 39 works

Research output over time

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