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Research in Redmond

Science Explorer records 28 research institutions in Redmond, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Microsoft (United States), Sigma Research (United States) and Northwest Research Associates.

Research institutions
28
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
17k
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
1M
59.5 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
26.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Redmond

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 Redmond?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Microsoft (United States)Company 28,036 #293
2Northwest Research AssociatesResearch facility 904 #14,151
3Sigma Research (United States)Company 603 #12,488
4MicroVision (United States)Company 276 #18,650 all time
5OFM Research (United States)Company 218 #17,413 all time
6Redmond Fire DepartmentGovernment institution 188 #26,783 all time
7STI Optronics (United States)Company 140 #34,777 all time
8B.E. Meyers & Co (United States)Company 139 #23,501 all time
9DigiPen Institute of TechnologyUniversity 109 not ranked
10Spencer Technologies (United States)Company 94 not ranked
11Keywords Studios (United States)Company 71 not ranked
12Institute of Applied Physiology & MedicineResearch facility 67 not ranked
13EndoGastric Solutions (United States)Company 55 not ranked
14MSNW (United States)Company 40 not ranked
15EOSPACE (United States)Company 10 not ranked
16Inventprise (United States)Company 9 not ranked
17ProFishent (United States)Company 8 not ranked
18Wildlife Computers (United States)Company 7 not ranked
19Orora Design Technologies (United States)Company 7 not ranked
20Dose Safety (United States)Company 7 not ranked
21Pushing BoundariesNonprofit 5 not ranked
22NeuroVista (United States)Company 4 not ranked
23PowerData (United States)Company 3 not ranked
24Photonic BioSystems (United States)Company 2 not ranked
25Little Bit Therapeutic Riding CenterHospital / health system 1 not ranked
26Nintendo (United States)Company 1 not ranked
27Greenwood Clean Energy (United States)Company 1 not ranked
28Onconome (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.

Microsoft (United States): 90.4%Northwest Research Associates: 2.9%Sigma Research (United States): 1.9%MicroVision (United States): 0.9%23 others listed: 3.8%90%largest
Microsoft (United States)28k · 90.4%Northwest Research Associates904 · 2.9%Sigma Research (United States)603 · 1.9%MicroVision (United States)276 · 0.9%23 others listed1,186 · 3.8%

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

Which fields of science does Redmond work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research in Redmond is in Physical Sciences, 16% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (47%), Engineering (11%), Medicine (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,542 fractional works · 68.0% of its workComputer Science: 1,064 fractional works · 47.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 430 fractional works · 19.0% of its workInformation Systems: 151 fractional works · 6.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 144 fractional works · 6.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 134 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSignal Processing: 67 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 34 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 30 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 29 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSoftware: 22 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 246 fractional works · 10.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 73 fractional works · 3.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 28 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 22 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 22 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 76 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 31 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 23 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 48 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 40 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 22 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOceanography: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 30 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Science: 24 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 370 fractional works · 16.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 141 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 43 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSafety Research: 25 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEducation: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCultural Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 76 fractional works · 3.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 42 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 68 fractional works · 3.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 38 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 24 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 43 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 26 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 22 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 17 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 217 fractional works · 9.6% of its workMedicine: 182 fractional works · 8.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 26 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 22 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Professions: 30 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 137 fractional works · 6.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 60 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 38 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 36 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 28 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRedmond2,266fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences68%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences16%

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. Computer Science1,06447.0%
    2. Engineering24610.9%
    3. Physics and Astronomy763.4%
    4. Environmental Science482.1%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences401.8%
    6. Mathematics301.3%
    7. Materials Science241.1%
    8. Chemistry90.4%
    9. Energy40.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.0%
    1. Social Sciences1416.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting763.3%
    3. Decision Sciences683.0%
    4. Psychology431.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance261.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities170.8%
    1. Medicine1828.0%
    2. Health Professions301.3%
    3. Nursing20.1%
    4. Veterinary10.1%
    5. Dentistry10.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology602.6%
    2. Neuroscience361.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences271.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology80.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics70.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Redmond strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Redmond is most concentrated in Signal Processing, Hardware and Architecture and Health Informatics (10.5× the world share in Signal Processing).

  1. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 62.4 works11×
  2. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 22.5 works10×
  3. Health InformaticsSubfield · 21.4 works9.1×
  4. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 374.1 works7.9×
  5. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 120.0 works6.9×
  6. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 27.1 works6.7×
  7. Computer ScienceField · 919.8 works6.0×
← 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: 0.24× its world share, 22 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.49× its world share, 51 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.29× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.06× its world share, 34 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.44× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 6.05× its world share, 920 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.11× its world share, 34 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.71× its world share, 208 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.43× its world share, 41 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.29× its world share, 20 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.15× its world share, 26 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.48× its world share, 64 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.55× its world share, 28 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.43× its world share, 163 worksMedicineNursing: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 13 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.04× its world share, 66 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.19× its world share, 60 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.55× its world share, 23 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.62× its world share, 37 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 119 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science6.05×920 works
  2. Decision Sciences3.19×60 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.48×64 works
  4. Mathematics1.15×26 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.11×34 works
  6. Neuroscience1.06×34 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting1.04×66 works
  8. Engineering0.71×208 works
  9. Psychology0.62×37 works
  10. Health Professions0.55×28 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.55×23 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.49×51 works
  13. Social Sciences0.48×119 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.44×3 works
  15. Environmental Science0.43×41 works
  16. Medicine0.43×163 works
  17. Veterinary0.42×1 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.29×6 works
  19. Materials Science0.29×20 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.24×22 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.24×13 works
  22. Energy0.23×4 works
  23. Chemistry0.22×7 works
  24. Nursing0.20×2 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.10×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.07×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Redmond?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Big Data, Distributed Systems, Convolutional Neural Networks, Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence.

▲ 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. Deep Learning329▲ 4.2×73 topics
  2. Machine Learning275▲ 3.6×83 topics
  3. Neural Networks210▲ 6.0×36 topics
  4. Big Data157▲ 7.3×23 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence101▲ 3.1×35 topics
  6. Convolutional Neural Networks86▲ 5.2×14 topics
  7. Distributed Systems86▲ 22×6 topics
  8. Healthcare74▲ 2.9×20 topics
  9. Information Retrieval66▲ 13×5 topics
  10. Data Mining62▲ 3.7×16 topics
  11. Anomaly Detection61▲ 9.4×5 topics
  12. Security60▲ 4.0×20 topics
  13. Deep Neural Networks58▲ 21×3 topics
  14. Cloud Computing58▲ 8.9×7 topics
  15. Topic Modeling58▲ 17×2 topics
  16. Text Classification57▲ 15×3 topics
  17. Supply Chain Management56▲ 2.8×17 topics
  18. Machine Translation55▲ 14×2 topics
  19. Semantic Similarity54▲ 19×1 topic
  20. Word Representation54▲ 19×1 topic
  21. Energy Efficiency53▲ 2.5×20 topics
  22. Resource Management46▲ 12×3 topics
  23. Virtualization46▲ 24×3 topics
  24. Corpus Linguistics45▲ 9.5×4 topics
  25. Medical Imaging45▲ 3.8×9 topics
  26. Neural Machine Translation44▲ 21×1 topic
  27. Statistical Machine Translation44▲ 21×1 topic
  28. IoT Security41▲ 5.9×3 topics
  29. Precision Medicine40▲ 3.6×7 topics
  30. Surveillance40▲ 6.4×5 topics
  31. Data Centers35▲ 26×1 topic
  32. MapReduce35▲ 26×1 topic
  33. Parallel Computing31▲ 12×5 topics
  34. Fault Localization31▲ 20×2 topics
  35. Log Analysis29▲ 30×1 topic
  36. Performance Prediction29▲ 19×1 topic
  37. Hidden Markov Models29▲ 22×2 topics
  38. Acoustic Modeling28▲ 32×1 topic
  39. Speaker Verification28▲ 32×1 topic
  40. Representation Learning27▲ 7.6×3 topics

What research is done in Redmond?

Topic Modeling50Topic Modeling: 50 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 42 fractional worksCloud Computing and Reso…30Cloud Computing and Resource Management: 30 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and S…25Speech Recognition and Synthesis: 25 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 23 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 21 fractional worksSoftware System Performa…21Software System Performance and Reliability: 21 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Processing: 20 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Research: 18 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…18Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 18 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsManagement Information SystemsHealth Informatics3 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 50 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 42 works
  3. 3 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 30 works
  4. 4 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 25 works
  5. 5 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 23 works
  6. 6 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 21 works
  7. 7 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 21 works
  8. 8 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 20 works
  9. 9 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 18 works
  10. 10 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 18 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%60%Redmond24.2% 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 49.7% in 2008.

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