Research in Reston
Science Explorer records 60 research institutions in Reston, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 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 ▼ 9% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.2% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Reston?
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.
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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).
- Geochemistry and PetrologySubfield · 107.0 works22×
- GeophysicsSubfield · 325.2 works20×
- Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 96.2 works17×
- Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 167.7 works15×
- Ecological ModelingSubfield · 51.6 works14×
- EcologySubfield · 445.1 works12×
- Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 870.8 works12×
- GeologySubfield · 61.5 works9.5×
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 Reston?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, Water Quality, Tectonics and Conservation.
- Thermodynamic Modeling
- Water Resources
- Citizen Science
- Monsoon Dynamics
- Geodetic Measurements
- Subduction
- Conservation Challenges
- Paleoclimatology
- Land Use Change
- Compositional Data Analysis
- Ecosystem Services
- Freshwater Biodiversity
- Model Evaluation
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Geological Mapping
- Sediment Transport
- Tectonics
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Machine Learning
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Change
- Invasive Species
- Biodiversity
- Water Quality
- Conservation
- Population Dynamics
- Plate Tectonics
- Support Vector Machines
- Holocene
- Hyperspectral Imaging
- Sea Level
- Mineral Prospectivity
- Hydrological Modeling
- Habitat Selection
- Flow Regulation
- Trophic Cascades
- Glacial Cycles
- Solar Influence
- GIS-based Modeling
- Ecosystem
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
- Climate Change925▲ 7.2×100 topics
- Remote Sensing383▲ 6.5×33 topics
- Invasive Species277▲ 14×20 topics
- Machine Learning276▲ 1.77×72 topics
- Biodiversity217▲ 6.1×32 topics
- Habitat Fragmentation171▲ 16×5 topics
- Water Quality170▲ 8.9×17 topics
- Tectonics170▲ 30×3 topics
- Conservation169▲ 8.2×21 topics
- Sediment Transport163▲ 21×6 topics
- Population Dynamics153▲ 13×13 topics
- Geological Mapping153▲ 39×2 topics
- Plate Tectonics134▲ 18×3 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability132▲ 31×2 topics
- Support Vector Machines124▲ 8.2×5 topics
- Model Evaluation117▲ 20×2 topics
- Holocene116▲ 21×3 topics
- Freshwater Biodiversity114▲ 40×2 topics
- Hyperspectral Imaging113▲ 8.4×6 topics
- Ecosystem Services110▲ 6.0×12 topics
- Sea Level109▲ 24×2 topics
- Compositional Data Analysis108▲ 34×1 topic
- Mineral Prospectivity108▲ 34×1 topic
- Land Use Change106▲ 7.2×7 topics
- Hydrological Modeling105▲ 9.4×5 topics
- Paleoclimatology104▲ 26×2 topics
- Habitat Selection102▲ 29×2 topics
- Conservation Challenges102▲ 45×1 topic
- Flow Regulation102▲ 45×1 topic
- Subduction102▲ 29×3 topics
- Trophic Cascades100▲ 22×2 topics
- Geodetic Measurements98▲ 19×2 topics
- Glacial Cycles98▲ 31×1 topic
- Monsoon Dynamics98▲ 31×1 topic
- Solar Influence98▲ 29×2 topics
- Citizen Science98▲ 21×4 topics
- GIS-based Modeling97▲ 24×2 topics
- Water Resources95▲ 8.3×10 topics
- Ecosystem95▲ 19×4 topics
- Thermodynamic Modeling94▲ 17×3 topics
What research is done in Reston?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Geochemistry and Geologic MappingArtificial Intelligence 108 works
- 2 Fish Ecology and Management StudiesNature and Landscape Conservation 102 works
- 3 Geology and Paleoclimatology ResearchAtmospheric Science 98 works
- 4 earthquake and tectonic studiesGeophysics 93 works
- 5 Geological and Geochemical AnalysisGeophysics 92 works
- 6 Wildlife Ecology and ConservationEcology 71 works
- 7 Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesWater Science and Technology 67 works
- 8 Fire effects on ecosystemsGlobal and Planetary Change 56 works
- 9 Landslides and related hazardsManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law 52 works
- 10 Rangeland and Wildlife ManagementEcology 52 works
Research output over time
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