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Research in San Jose

Science Explorer records 121 research institutions in San Jose, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Adobe Systems (United States), San Jose State University and IBM Research - Almaden.

Research institutions
121
15 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
49k
▲ 8% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
14.9%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 San Jose?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1San Jose State UniversityUniversity 15,339 #2,391
2IBM Research - AlmadenResearch facility 7,455 #3,299
3ITRI InternationalResearch facility 2,533 #13,461
4Altera (United States)Company 2,462 #15,819
5Adobe Systems (United States)Company 2,041 #1,695
6Cadence Design Systems (United States)Company 1,632 #17,260
7Santa Clara Valley Medical CenterHospital / health system 1,508 #18,350
8Xilinx (United States)Company 1,168 #23,863
9Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (United States)Company 1,160 #19,530
10Broadcom (United States)Company 984 #21,453
11Western Digital (United States)Company 752 #11,376
12Structural Integrity Associates (United States)Company 628 #17,790
13Align Technology (United States)Company 518 #18,772
14BD Biosciences (United States)Company 509 #16,685
15Teikoku Pharma (United States)Company 509 #8,238 all time
16SK Group (United States)Company 477 #21,490 all time
17Flex (United States)Company 453 #22,577 all time
18Silicon Valley UniversityUniversity 393 #25,935
19NeoPhotonics (United States)Company 367 #7,052
20Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (United States)Company 358 #19,718 all time
21Brocade (United States)Company 351 #25,409 all time
22n&k Technology (United States)Company 345 #13,446 all time
23PDF Solutions (United States)Company 315 #25,013
24Good Samaritan HospitalHospital / health system 302 #25,984
25Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute North AmericaResearch facility 297 #26,405 all time
26Superior Court of CaliforniaGovernment institution 294 #31,480 all time
27Integrated Device Technology (United States)Company 284 #26,426 all time
28Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (United States)Company 270 #30,991 all time
29Maxim Integrated (United States)Company 263 #19,197 all time
30PayPal (United States)Company 249 #26,541
31O’Connor HospitalHospital / health system 243 #26,019 all time
32Lithium Power (United States)Company 240 #11,293
33Xperi (United States)Company 233 #34,527 all time
34Foxconn (United States)Company 232 #31,457 all time
35Fistula FoundationNonprofit 231 #37,756 all time
36QED LabsResearch facility 223 #37,781 all time
37Immersion (United States)Company 211 #21,902
38Community Health PartnershipHospital / health system 211 #33,594 all time
39California Institute for Medical ResearchResearch facility 209 #21,555 all time
40Santa Clara County Behavioral Health ServicesGovernment institution 207 #33,227 all time
41Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical CenterHospital / health system 187 #31,144 all time
42Fair Isaac Corporation (United States)Company 182 #31,788 all time
43Mothers’ Milk BankNonprofit 172 #37,224 all time
44eBay (United States)Company 150 #36,993 all time
45Intermolecular (United States)Company 143 #23,649 all time
46Viavi Solutions (United States)Company 110 not ranked
47San Jose City CollegeUniversity 109 not ranked
48Deep Ocean Engineering (United States)Company 107 not ranked
49International Technological UniversityUniversity 104 not ranked
50Hermes Microvision (United States)Company 99 not ranked
51Extreme Networks (United States)Company 96 not ranked
52Best BiotechCompany 89 not ranked
53Synaptics (United States)Company 73 not ranked
54Smart Monitor (United States)Company 66 not ranked
55Invisible Software (United States)Company 63 not ranked
56Health TrustNonprofit 63 not ranked
57NextFlexNonprofit 62 not ranked
58Harmonic (United States)Company 59 not ranked
59PolarOnyx (United States)Company 57 not ranked
60Evergreen Valley CollegeUniversity 51 not ranked

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.

San Jose State University: 31.6%IBM Research - Almaden: 15.4%ITRI International: 5.2%Altera (United States): 5.1%56 others listed: 42.7%32%largest
San Jose State University15k · 31.6%IBM Research - Almaden7,455 · 15.4%ITRI International2,533 · 5.2%Altera (United States)2,462 · 5.1%56 others listed21k · 42.7%

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

What is San Jose strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in San Jose is most concentrated in Library and Information Sciences, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Hardware and Architecture (17.1× the world share in Library and Information Sciences).

  1. Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 21.8 works17×
  2. Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignSubfield · 41.5 works7.5×
  3. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 49.5 works6.6×
  4. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 79.9 works4.0×
  5. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 314.1 works3.7×
  6. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 42.4 works3.1×
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Which keywords describe research in San Jose?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Big Data, Sustainability, Unsupervised Learning, Security and Quantum Information.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
  1. Deep Learning565▲ 2.5×82 topics
  2. Machine Learning395▲ 1.81×92 topics
  3. Neural Networks298▲ 2.9×39 topics
  4. Sustainability196▲ 1.21×105 topics
  5. Epidemiology177▼ 0.67×129 topics
  6. Big Data138▲ 2.3×29 topics
  7. Globalization128◆ 0.98×128 topics
  8. Healthcare121▲ 1.61×36 topics
  9. Mental Health114▲ 1.17×45 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence112▲ 1.23×53 topics
  11. Public Health107◆ 1.10×67 topics
  12. Security104▲ 2.4×26 topics
  13. Data Mining100▲ 2.0×22 topics
  14. Supply Chain Management88▲ 1.42×23 topics
  15. Convolutional Neural Networks88▲ 1.79×14 topics
  16. IoT Security74▲ 3.5×3 topics
  17. Unsupervised Learning69▲ 7.3×3 topics
  18. Information Retrieval67▲ 4.6×6 topics
  19. Anomaly Detection66▲ 3.4×5 topics
  20. Simulation58▲ 3.4×15 topics
  21. Quantum Information58▲ 7.4×3 topics
  22. Text Classification56▲ 5.3×3 topics
  23. Convolutional Networks56▲ 6.0×3 topics
  24. Visualization55▲ 14×4 topics
  25. Topic Modeling52▲ 5.4×3 topics
  26. Integrated Circuits51▲ 4.9×3 topics
  27. Machine Translation49▲ 4.4×2 topics
  28. Semantic Similarity48▲ 6.0×1 topic
  29. Word Representation48▲ 6.0×1 topic
  30. Distributed Systems47▲ 4.2×6 topics
  31. Entanglement47▲ 4.7×4 topics
  32. Representation Learning47▲ 5.1×3 topics
  33. Parallel Computing46▲ 5.9×6 topics
  34. Generative Adversarial Networks42▲ 7.8×2 topics
  35. Quantum Simulation40▲ 7.6×2 topics
  36. Quantum Algorithms39▲ 11×1 topic
  37. Quantum Computation39▲ 11×1 topic
  38. Depth Estimation38▲ 6.7×2 topics
  39. Computer Graphics36▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Rendering36▲ 21×1 topic

What research is done in San Jose?

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 48 works
  2. 2 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 39 works
  3. 3 Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 36 works
  4. 4 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 33 works
  5. 5 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 32 works
  6. 6 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 31 works
  7. 7 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 30 works
  8. 8 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 30 works
  9. 9 Semiconductor materials and devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 30 works
  10. 10 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 28 works

Research output over time

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