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Research in Princeton

Science Explorer records 53 research institutions in Princeton, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton Public Schools.

Research institutions
53
14 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
132k
▼ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.1M
54.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
25.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record

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 Princeton?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Princeton UniversityUniversity 102,064 #28
2Institute for Advanced StudyResearch facility 8,964 #1,013
3Educational Testing ServiceNonprofit 5,305 #5,800
4Textile Research InstituteResearch facility 2,459 #10,887
5Princeton Theological SeminaryUniversity 2,247 #16,622
6Mathematica Policy ResearchResearch facility 1,618 #8,993
7Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNonprofit 1,552 #2,173 all time
8Princeton Public SchoolsUniversity 1,223 #2,652
9Covance (United States)Company 1,207 #14,364
10Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (United States)Company 1,146 #7,933
11Institute of Semitic StudiesNonprofit 1,084 #11,595
12Otsuka (United States)Company 509 #15,462
13Community Options (United States)Company 459 #16,913
14Climate CentralNonprofit 428 #16,928
15Ocean Power Technologies (United States)Company 413 #12,906 all time
16Genmab (United States)Company 179 #21,033
17Center Of Theological InquiryNonprofit 138 #30,386 all time
18American School of Classical Studies at AthensUniversity 136 #30,717 all time
19Advanced Media Research (United States)Company 109 not ranked
20Munich Re (United States)Company 94 not ranked
21The Princeton FestivalNonprofit 68 not ranked
22Princeton Public LibraryArchive 65 not ranked
23Taiho Oncology (United States)Company 64 not ranked
24Nova Photonics (United States)Company 51 not ranked
25Advaxis (United States)Company 51 not ranked
26SciTec (United States)Company 49 not ranked
27Soligenix (United States)Company 34 not ranked
28Witherspoon InstituteResearch facility 30 not ranked
29TreadStone Technologies (United States)Company 28 not ranked
30Snowdon (United States)Company 22 not ranked
31Agile Therapeutics (United States)Company 22 not ranked
32Mikros Systems (United States)Company 19 not ranked
33Twinleaf (United States)Company 19 not ranked
34Semandex Networks (United States)Company 17 not ranked
35Theradex Oncology (United States)Company 17 not ranked
36Agennix (United States)Company 15 not ranked
37NovaFlux (United States)Company 14 not ranked
38Viocare (United States)Company 13 not ranked
39Metal Powder Industries FederationNonprofit 11 not ranked
40Berlitz (United States)Company 11 not ranked
41Institute for Citizens & ScholarsNonprofit 11 not ranked
42Learning AllyNonprofit 7 not ranked
43Princeton Medical InstituteResearch facility 6 not ranked
44JM FoundationNonprofit 6 not ranked
45Milbank FoundationNonprofit 5 not ranked
46Princeton Technology Advisors (United States)Company 2 not ranked
47Fund For New JerseyNonprofit 2 not ranked
48iCeutica (United States)Company 1 not ranked
49Global Medical Institutes (United States)Company 1 not ranked
50Rita Allen FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
51USRowingNonprofit 0 not ranked
52Mgenuity (United States)Company 0 not ranked
53AMREP (United States)Company 0 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.

Princeton University: 77.3%Institute for Advanced Study: 6.8%Educational Testing Service: 4.0%Textile Research Institute: 1.9%46 others listed: 10.0%77%largest
Princeton University102k · 77.3%Institute for Advanced Study8,964 · 6.8%Educational Testing Service5,305 · 4.0%Textile Research Institute2,459 · 1.9%46 others listed13k · 10.0%

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

Which fields of science does Princeton work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research in Princeton is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (15%), Engineering (12%), Physics and Astronomy (10%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 7,356 fractional works · 51.3% of its workEngineering: 1,784 fractional works · 12.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 567 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 213 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 157 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 145 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 143 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 115 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 87 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 84 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 59 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 57 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 52 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 57 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1,470 fractional works · 10.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 496 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 372 fractional works · 2.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 286 fractional works · 2.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 147 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 95 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInstrumentation: 43 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1,341 fractional works · 9.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 561 fractional works · 3.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 173 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 170 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 150 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 114 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 50 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 51 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 728 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 285 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology: 102 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 81 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 51 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 30 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 553 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeometry and Topology: 134 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMathematical Physics: 108 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 96 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 88 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 30 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 29 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 513 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 249 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOceanography: 124 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 54 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 85 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 499 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 256 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 98 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 59 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 29 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 295 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 158 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 43 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 29 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 103 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 87 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 70 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 4,395 fractional works · 30.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,080 fractional works · 14.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 791 fractional works · 5.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 427 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEducation: 207 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAnthropology: 120 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 80 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 67 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 63 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 61 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 35 fractional works · 0.2% of its workUrban Studies: 31 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 110 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 961 fractional works · 6.7% of its workPhilosophy: 194 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory: 143 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 139 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 111 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReligious studies: 100 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 70 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 54 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClassics: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 42 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 61 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 482 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 330 fractional works · 2.3% of its workFinance: 103 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 50 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 457 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 140 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 104 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 99 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 80 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 208 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 120 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 41 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 206 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 42 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 104 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 1,405 fractional works · 9.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 752 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 451 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGenetics: 105 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 57 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 105 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 316 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 217 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 53 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 236 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 69 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 66 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 34 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 67 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 64 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 47 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 38 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,174 fractional works · 8.2% of its workMedicine: 935 fractional works · 6.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 109 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 94 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 80 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 79 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 61 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 47 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 41 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 39 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 29 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 229 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 204 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 148 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 56 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 21 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 7 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 7 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKPrinceton14kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences51%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences31%

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. Engineering1,78412.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1,47010.3%
    3. Computer Science1,3419.4%
    4. Environmental Science7285.1%
    5. Mathematics5533.9%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences5133.6%
    7. Materials Science4993.5%
    8. Chemistry2952.1%
    9. Energy1030.7%
    10. Chemical Engineering700.5%
  1. Social Sciences4,39530.7%
    1. Social Sciences2,08014.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities9616.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4823.4%
    4. Psychology4573.2%
    5. Decision Sciences2081.5%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting2061.4%
  2. Life Sciences1,4059.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7525.2%
    2. Neuroscience3162.2%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2361.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology640.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics380.3%
    1. Medicine9356.5%
    2. Health Professions2041.4%
    3. Nursing210.1%
    4. Veterinary70.0%
    5. Dentistry70.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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×
← 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: 0.34× its world share, 203 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.95× its world share, 636 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.44× its world share, 56 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.29× its world share, 263 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.70× its world share, 31 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.37× its world share, 60 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.26× its world share, 248 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.19× its world share, 1,158 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.22× its world share, 438 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.78× its world share, 90 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.85× its world share, 1,607 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.98× its world share, 611 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.96× its world share, 422 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.35× its world share, 495 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 4.68× its world share, 1,306 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.56× its world share, 186 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.33× its world share, 808 worksMedicineNursing: 0.30× its world share, 19 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.38× its world share, 6 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.34× its world share, 847 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.46× its world share, 186 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.44× its world share, 175 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.67× its world share, 450 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.00× its world share, 383 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.17× its world share, 1,864 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy4.68×1,306 works
  2. Mathematics3.35×495 works
  3. Arts and Humanities2.34×847 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.22×438 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.67×450 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.44×175 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.37×60 works
  8. Neuroscience1.29×263 works
  9. Chemistry1.26×248 works
  10. Computer Science1.19×1,158 works
  11. Social Sciences1.17×1,864 works
  12. Psychology1.00×383 works
  13. Environmental Science0.98×611 works
  14. Materials Science0.96×422 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.95×636 works
  16. Engineering0.85×1,607 works
  17. Energy0.78×90 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.70×31 works
  19. Health Professions0.56×186 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.46×186 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.44×56 works
  22. Veterinary0.38×6 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×203 works
  24. Medicine0.33×808 works
  25. Nursing0.30×19 works
  26. Dentistry0.10×6 works

Which keywords describe research in Princeton?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Globalization, Black Holes, Machine Learning, Ocean Circulation, Religion and Nationalism.

▲ 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 Change650▲ 1.67×114 topics
  2. Machine Learning512◆ 1.07×91 topics
  3. Deep Learning433◆ 0.88×81 topics
  4. Globalization421▲ 1.49×135 topics
  5. Global Warming274▲ 4.5×16 topics
  6. History251▲ 2.5×58 topics
  7. Neural Networks237◆ 1.07×38 topics
  8. Religion231▲ 3.5×42 topics
  9. Identity228▲ 2.2×70 topics
  10. Nationalism220▲ 3.4×33 topics
  11. Colonialism210▲ 3.1×46 topics
  12. Ethics188▲ 2.6×48 topics
  13. Gender183▲ 2.4×50 topics
  14. Literature180▲ 2.3×58 topics
  15. Black Holes174▲ 12×3 topics
  16. Culture168▲ 2.2×37 topics
  17. Ocean Circulation166▲ 8.4×3 topics
  18. Philosophy158▲ 2.5×43 topics
  19. Greenhouse Gas Emissions148▲ 3.8×9 topics
  20. Democracy147▲ 2.9×24 topics
  21. Feminism140▲ 3.3×21 topics
  22. Hydrological Cycle124▲ 8.5×2 topics
  23. Quantum Gravity117▲ 9.7×4 topics
  24. Data Assimilation116▲ 5.0×4 topics
  25. Extreme Events110▲ 8.3×2 topics
  26. Society109▲ 4.0×20 topics
  27. Dark Matter108▲ 6.5×4 topics
  28. Climate Modeling106▲ 9.9×1 topic
  29. Precipitation Extremes106▲ 9.9×1 topic
  30. Public Opinion106▲ 6.1×6 topics
  31. Supernovae102▲ 8.7×2 topics
  32. Turbulence98▲ 7.6×5 topics
  33. Star Formation94▲ 12×2 topics
  34. Quantum Entanglement92▲ 9.9×2 topics
  35. String Theory86▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Field Theories82▲ 13×1 topic
  37. Holographic82▲ 13×1 topic
  38. Magnetic Fields81▲ 8.5×3 topics
  39. Accretion Disks79▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Tropical Cyclones79▲ 9.6×2 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

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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%Princeton22.3% 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 39.6% in 2013.

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