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Research in Reston

Science Explorer records 60 research institutions in Reston, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are United States Geological Survey, Leidos (United States) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Research institutions
60
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
52k
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9M
37.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
17.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Reston

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 Reston?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1United States Geological SurveyGovernment institution 47,086 #751
2American Institute of Aeronautics and AstronauticsInstitution 2,699 #3,679
3American Society of Civil EngineersNonprofit 2,258 #14,428
4Leidos (United States)Company 1,862 #1,010
5American College of RadiologyNonprofit 498 #4,946 all time
6Rolls-Royce (United States)Company 439 #19,277 all time
7Society of Health and Physical EducatorsNonprofit 375 #10,474 all time
8Entertainment Industries CouncilNonprofit 348 #33,991 all time
9Information Management Consultants (United States)Company 332 #20,874 all time
10Metron (United States)Company 315 #17,533 all time
11Society of ToxicologyInstitution 309 #18,260 all time
12NoblisNonprofit 301 #14,276 all time
13Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingNonprofit 208 #20,443 all time
14National Wildlife FederationNonprofit 207 #22,683 all time
15ObjectVideo (United States)Company 187 #27,819 all time
16National Association of Secondary School PrincipalsInstitution 163 #33,477 all time
17National Council of Teachers of MathematicsInstitution 145 #34,294 all time
18ASCE FoundationNonprofit 126 #32,494 all time
19Corporation for National Research InitiativesNonprofit 73 not ranked
20Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics SocietyInstitution 70 not ranked
21Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy InstituteInstitution 68 not ranked
22Virginia Center for Reproductive MedicineHospital / health system 61 not ranked
23Vehicle Control Technologies (United States)Company 60 not ranked
24American Medical Women's AssociationInstitution 52 not ranked
25NCI Information Systems (United States)Company 45 not ranked
26Blue Pencil Group (United States)Company 44 not ranked
27Maximus (United States)Company 42 not ranked
28Virginia Spine InstituteHospital / health system 42 not ranked
29Health Care Without HarmHospital / health system 31 not ranked
30Microscopy Society of AmericaNonprofit 26 not ranked
31Personal Improvement Computer SystemsCompany 25 not ranked
32Wireless Innovation ForumNonprofit 20 not ranked
33Global InfoTek (United States)Company 18 not ranked
34National Association of Biology TeachersInstitution 16 not ranked
35Association for Documentary EditingInstitution 16 not ranked
36Ocean TrustInstitution 13 not ranked
37PSA (United States)Company 12 not ranked
38Parabon Computation (United States)Company 11 not ranked
39Tigerlily FoundationNonprofit 9 not ranked
40International Technology and Engineering Educators AssociationNonprofit 7 not ranked
41CleverSys (United States)Company 7 not ranked
42American Association of Engineering SocietiesInstitution 6 not ranked
43Inscope International (United States)Company 6 not ranked
44American Academy of AudiologyInstitution 5 not ranked
45Teratology SocietyInstitution 4 not ranked
46American Association for Aerosol ResearchNonprofit 4 not ranked
47Society for the Study of ReproductionInstitution 2 not ranked
48Trifecta Solutions (United States)Company 2 not ranked
49SuGanit Systems (United States)Company 1 not ranked
50Graphic Arts Education and Research FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
51Eastern North American Region International Biometric SocietyInstitution 1 not ranked
52National Association for Research in Science TeachingResearch facility 1 not ranked
53International Union of ToxicologyInstitution 1 not ranked
54Applied Signals Intelligence (United States)Company 1 not ranked
55State Justice InstituteGovernment institution 0 not ranked
56Amar International (United States)Company 0 not ranked
57Technology Student AssociationNonprofit 0 not ranked
58Native American Management ServicesInstitution 0 not ranked
59International Association of Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics SocietiesInstitution 0 not ranked
60American Academy of Otolaryngic AllergyInstitution 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.

United States Geological Survey: 80.3%American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: 4.6%American Society of Civil Engineers: 3.8%Leidos (United States): 3.2%50 others listed: 8.1%80%largest
United States Geological Survey47k · 80.3%American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics2,699 · 4.6%American Society of Civil Engineers2,258 · 3.8%Leidos (United States)1,862 · 3.2%50 others listed4,756 · 8.1%

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

Which fields of science does Reston work in?

In 2022-now, 73% of research in Reston is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (30%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (18%), Engineering (14%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 3,947 fractional works · 73.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1,595 fractional works · 29.7% of its workEcology: 492 fractional works · 9.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 276 fractional works · 5.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 184 fractional works · 3.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 135 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 124 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 109 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 87 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 77 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 57 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPollution: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 956 fractional works · 17.8% of its workGeophysics: 364 fractional works · 6.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 187 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 115 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 105 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOceanography: 78 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeology: 65 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPaleontology: 40 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 755 fractional works · 14.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 123 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 95 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 83 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 73 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 72 fractional works · 1.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 71 fractional works · 1.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 60 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 50 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 47 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 364 fractional works · 6.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 232 fractional works · 4.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 125 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 65 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 54 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 484 fractional works · 9.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 241 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 61 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 35 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 60 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 66 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 56 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 44 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 37 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 482 fractional works · 9.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 223 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 77 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 49 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoil Science: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 182 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 82 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGenetics: 55 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCancer Research: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 49 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 458 fractional works · 8.5% of its workMedicine: 360 fractional works · 6.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 40 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 40 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 106 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 72 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKReston5,372fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences73%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences9%

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. Environmental Science1,59529.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences95617.8%
    3. Engineering75514.0%
    4. Computer Science3646.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1252.3%
    6. Materials Science541.0%
    7. Chemistry390.7%
    8. Mathematics260.5%
    9. Energy230.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering110.2%
    1. Social Sciences2414.5%
    2. Psychology661.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities561.0%
    4. Decision Sciences440.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance390.7%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting370.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2234.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1823.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology490.9%
    4. Neuroscience240.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics50.1%
    1. Medicine3606.7%
    2. Health Professions721.3%
    3. Veterinary110.2%
    4. Nursing110.2%
    5. Dentistry40.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Reston strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Reston is most concentrated in Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics and Earth-Surface Processes (22.1× the world share in Geochemistry and Petrology).

  1. Geochemistry and PetrologySubfield · 107.0 works22×
  2. GeophysicsSubfield · 325.2 works20×
  3. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 96.2 works17×
  4. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 167.7 works15×
  5. Ecological ModelingSubfield · 51.6 works14×
  6. EcologySubfield · 445.1 works12×
  7. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 870.8 works12×
  8. GeologySubfield · 61.5 works9.5×
← 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: 0.83× its world share, 188 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.62× its world share, 157 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.90× its world share, 43 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.61× its world share, 10 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.46× its world share, 34 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.86× its world share, 317 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11.65× its world share, 871 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.43× its world share, 19 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.95× its world share, 679 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.13× its world share, 1,451 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.28× its world share, 47 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.38× its world share, 21 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.96× its world share, 102 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.52× its world share, 65 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.35× its world share, 317 worksMedicineNursing: 0.39× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.64× its world share, 11 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 45 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 27 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 38 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.34× its world share, 35 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.40× its world share, 58 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 196 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 11.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.65×871 works
  2. Environmental Science6.13×1,451 works
  3. Veterinary1.64×11 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy0.96×102 works
  5. Engineering0.95×679 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology0.90×43 works
  7. Computer Science0.86×317 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.83×188 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.83×38 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.62×157 works
  11. Chemical Engineering0.61×10 works
  12. Health Professions0.52×65 works
  13. Chemistry0.46×34 works
  14. Energy0.43×19 works
  15. Psychology0.40×58 works
  16. Nursing0.39×9 works
  17. Mathematics0.38×21 works
  18. Medicine0.35×317 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.34×35 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.33×45 works
  21. Social Sciences0.32×196 works
  22. Materials Science0.28×47 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.25×4 works
  24. Neuroscience0.20×15 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.18×27 works
  26. Dentistry0.16×4 works

Which keywords describe research in Reston?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, Conservation, Water Quality and Tectonics.

▲ 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 Change1,018▲ 7.0×101 topics
  2. Remote Sensing417▲ 6.3×34 topics
  3. Machine Learning312▲ 1.75×77 topics
  4. Invasive Species304▲ 13×20 topics
  5. Biodiversity242▲ 5.9×32 topics
  6. Habitat Fragmentation186▲ 16×5 topics
  7. Conservation184▲ 8.0×21 topics
  8. Water Quality183▲ 8.5×17 topics
  9. Tectonics181▲ 28×3 topics
  10. Sediment Transport176▲ 20×6 topics
  11. Population Dynamics167▲ 12×13 topics
  12. Geological Mapping156▲ 37×2 topics
  13. Plate Tectonics148▲ 18×3 topics
  14. Fisheries Sustainability144▲ 31×2 topics
  15. Support Vector Machines130▲ 7.6×6 topics
  16. Model Evaluation129▲ 19×2 topics
  17. Freshwater Biodiversity129▲ 39×2 topics
  18. Holocene120▲ 20×3 topics
  19. Subduction119▲ 30×3 topics
  20. Hydrological Modeling117▲ 9.1×5 topics
  21. Hyperspectral Imaging116▲ 8.1×6 topics
  22. Land Use Change114▲ 7.1×7 topics
  23. Sea Level113▲ 23×2 topics
  24. Conservation Challenges112▲ 46×1 topic
  25. Flow Regulation112▲ 46×1 topic
  26. Geodetic Measurements112▲ 20×2 topics
  27. Habitat Selection111▲ 28×2 topics
  28. Compositional Data Analysis111▲ 33×1 topic
  29. Mineral Prospectivity111▲ 33×1 topic
  30. Paleoclimatology109▲ 24×2 topics
  31. Citizen Science109▲ 20×4 topics
  32. Trophic Cascades107▲ 22×2 topics
  33. Earthquakes106▲ 35×1 topic
  34. GIS-based Modeling106▲ 24×2 topics
  35. Plate Boundaries106▲ 35×1 topic
  36. Water Resources106▲ 8.1×11 topics
  37. Ecosystem102▲ 18×4 topics
  38. Solar Influence102▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Glacial Cycles102▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Thermodynamic Modeling102▲ 17×3 topics

What research is done in Reston?

Geochemistry and Geologi…108Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 108 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…102Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 102 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimato…98Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 98 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic …93earthquake and tectonic studies: 93 fractional worksGeological and Geochemic…92Geological and Geochemical Analysis: 92 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…71Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 71 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 67 fractional worksFire effects on ecosystems: 56 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 52 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 52 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceNature and Landscape ConservationAtmospheric ScienceGeophysics4 others

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

  1. 1 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 108 works
  2. 2 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 102 works
  3. 3 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 98 works
  4. 4 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 93 works
  5. 5 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 92 works
  6. 6 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 71 works
  7. 7 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 67 works
  8. 8 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 56 works
  9. 9 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 52 works
  10. 10 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 52 works

Research output over time

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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%Reston18.4% 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 33.4% in 2000.

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