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?
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.
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.
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
- Physical Sciences7,35651.3%
- Engineering1,78412.4%
- Physics and Astronomy1,47010.3%
- Computer Science1,3419.4%
- Environmental Science7285.1%
- Mathematics5533.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences5133.6%
- Materials Science4993.5%
- Chemistry2952.1%
- Energy1030.7%
- Chemical Engineering700.5%
- Social Sciences4,39530.7%
- Social Sciences2,08014.5%
- Arts and Humanities9616.7%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance4823.4%
- Psychology4573.2%
- Decision Sciences2081.5%
- Business, Management and Accounting2061.4%
- Life Sciences1,4059.8%
- Health Sciences1,1748.2%
- Medicine9356.5%
- Health Professions2041.4%
- Nursing210.1%
- Veterinary70.0%
- Dentistry70.0%
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.
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.
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
- Physics and Astronomy4.68×1,306 works
- Mathematics3.35×495 works
- Arts and Humanities2.34×847 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.22×438 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.67×450 works
- Decision Sciences1.44×175 works
- Chemical Engineering1.37×60 works
- Neuroscience1.29×263 works
- Chemistry1.26×248 works
- Computer Science1.19×1,158 works
- Social Sciences1.17×1,864 works
- Psychology1.00×383 works
- Environmental Science0.98×611 works
- Materials Science0.96×422 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.95×636 works
- Engineering0.85×1,607 works
- Energy0.78×90 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.70×31 works
- Health Professions0.56×186 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.46×186 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.44×56 works
- Veterinary0.38×6 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×203 works
- Medicine0.33×808 works
- Nursing0.30×19 works
- 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.
- Tropical Cyclones
- Magnetic Fields
- Field Theories
- Quantum Entanglement
- Turbulence
- Public Opinion
- Climate Modeling
- Society
- Data Assimilation
- Hydrological Cycle
- Democracy
- Philosophy
- Culture
- Literature
- Ethics
- Nationalism
- Religion
- History
- Globalization
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Global Warming
- Neural Networks
- Identity
- Colonialism
- Gender
- Black Holes
- Ocean Circulation
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Feminism
- Quantum Gravity
- Extreme Events
- Dark Matter
- Precipitation Extremes
- Supernovae
- Star Formation
- String Theory
- Holographic
- Accretion Disks
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
- Climate Change650▲ 1.67×114 topics
- Machine Learning512◆ 1.07×91 topics
- Deep Learning433◆ 0.88×81 topics
- Globalization421▲ 1.49×135 topics
- Global Warming274▲ 4.5×16 topics
- History251▲ 2.5×58 topics
- Neural Networks237◆ 1.07×38 topics
- Religion231▲ 3.5×42 topics
- Identity228▲ 2.2×70 topics
- Nationalism220▲ 3.4×33 topics
- Colonialism210▲ 3.1×46 topics
- Ethics188▲ 2.6×48 topics
- Gender183▲ 2.4×50 topics
- Literature180▲ 2.3×58 topics
- Black Holes174▲ 12×3 topics
- Culture168▲ 2.2×37 topics
- Ocean Circulation166▲ 8.4×3 topics
- Philosophy158▲ 2.5×43 topics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions148▲ 3.8×9 topics
- Democracy147▲ 2.9×24 topics
- Feminism140▲ 3.3×21 topics
- Hydrological Cycle124▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Quantum Gravity117▲ 9.7×4 topics
- Data Assimilation116▲ 5.0×4 topics
- Extreme Events110▲ 8.3×2 topics
- Society109▲ 4.0×20 topics
- Dark Matter108▲ 6.5×4 topics
- Climate Modeling106▲ 9.9×1 topic
- Precipitation Extremes106▲ 9.9×1 topic
- Public Opinion106▲ 6.1×6 topics
- Supernovae102▲ 8.7×2 topics
- Turbulence98▲ 7.6×5 topics
- Star Formation94▲ 12×2 topics
- Quantum Entanglement92▲ 9.9×2 topics
- String Theory86▲ 11×2 topics
- Field Theories82▲ 13×1 topic
- Holographic82▲ 13×1 topic
- Magnetic Fields81▲ 8.5×3 topics
- Accretion Disks79▲ 11×2 topics
- Tropical Cyclones79▲ 9.6×2 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
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.
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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