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?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Jose State UniversityUniversity | 15,339 | #2,391 | |
| 2 | IBM Research - AlmadenResearch facility | 7,455 | #3,299 | |
| 3 | ITRI InternationalResearch facility | 2,533 | #13,461 | |
| 4 | Altera (United States)Company | 2,462 | #15,819 | |
| 5 | Adobe Systems (United States)Company | 2,041 | #1,695 | |
| 6 | Cadence Design Systems (United States)Company | 1,632 | #17,260 | |
| 7 | Santa Clara Valley Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,508 | #18,350 | |
| 8 | Xilinx (United States)Company | 1,168 | #23,863 | |
| 9 | Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (United States)Company | 1,160 | #19,530 | |
| 10 | Broadcom (United States)Company | 984 | #21,453 | |
| 11 | Western Digital (United States)Company | 752 | #11,376 | |
| 12 | Structural Integrity Associates (United States)Company | 628 | #17,790 | |
| 13 | Align Technology (United States)Company | 518 | #18,772 | |
| 14 | BD Biosciences (United States)Company | 509 | #16,685 | |
| 15 | Teikoku Pharma (United States)Company | 509 | #8,238 all time | |
| 16 | SK Group (United States)Company | 477 | #21,490 all time | |
| 17 | Flex (United States)Company | 453 | #22,577 all time | |
| 18 | Silicon Valley UniversityUniversity | 393 | #25,935 | |
| 19 | NeoPhotonics (United States)Company | 367 | #7,052 | |
| 20 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (United States)Company | 358 | #19,718 all time | |
| 21 | Brocade (United States)Company | 351 | #25,409 all time | |
| 22 | n&k Technology (United States)Company | 345 | #13,446 all time | |
| 23 | PDF Solutions (United States)Company | 315 | #25,013 | |
| 24 | Good Samaritan HospitalHospital / health system | 302 | #25,984 | |
| 25 | Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute North AmericaResearch facility | 297 | #26,405 all time | |
| 26 | Superior Court of CaliforniaGovernment institution | 294 | #31,480 all time | |
| 27 | Integrated Device Technology (United States)Company | 284 | #26,426 all time | |
| 28 | Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (United States)Company | 270 | #30,991 all time | |
| 29 | Maxim Integrated (United States)Company | 263 | #19,197 all time | |
| 30 | PayPal (United States)Company | 249 | #26,541 | |
| 31 | O’Connor HospitalHospital / health system | 243 | #26,019 all time | |
| 32 | Lithium Power (United States)Company | 240 | #11,293 | |
| 33 | Xperi (United States)Company | 233 | #34,527 all time | |
| 34 | Foxconn (United States)Company | 232 | #31,457 all time | |
| 35 | Fistula FoundationNonprofit | 231 | #37,756 all time | |
| 36 | QED LabsResearch facility | 223 | #37,781 all time | |
| 37 | Immersion (United States)Company | 211 | #21,902 | |
| 38 | Community Health PartnershipHospital / health system | 211 | #33,594 all time | |
| 39 | California Institute for Medical ResearchResearch facility | 209 | #21,555 all time | |
| 40 | Santa Clara County Behavioral Health ServicesGovernment institution | 207 | #33,227 all time | |
| 41 | Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical CenterHospital / health system | 187 | #31,144 all time | |
| 42 | Fair Isaac Corporation (United States)Company | 182 | #31,788 all time | |
| 43 | Mothers’ Milk BankNonprofit | 172 | #37,224 all time | |
| 44 | eBay (United States)Company | 150 | #36,993 all time | |
| 45 | Intermolecular (United States)Company | 143 | #23,649 all time | |
| 46 | Viavi Solutions (United States)Company | 110 | not ranked | |
| 47 | San Jose City CollegeUniversity | 109 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Deep Ocean Engineering (United States)Company | 107 | not ranked | |
| 49 | International Technological UniversityUniversity | 104 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Hermes Microvision (United States)Company | 99 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Extreme Networks (United States)Company | 96 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Best BiotechCompany | 89 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Synaptics (United States)Company | 73 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Smart Monitor (United States)Company | 66 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Invisible Software (United States)Company | 63 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Health TrustNonprofit | 63 | not ranked | |
| 57 | NextFlexNonprofit | 62 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Harmonic (United States)Company | 59 | not ranked | |
| 59 | PolarOnyx (United States)Company | 57 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Evergreen 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.
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).
- Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 21.8 works17×
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignSubfield · 41.5 works7.5×
- Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 49.5 works6.6×
- Signal ProcessingSubfield · 79.9 works4.0×
- Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 314.1 works3.7×
- Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 42.4 works3.1×
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 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.
- Rendering
- Depth Estimation
- Quantum Algorithms
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Representation Learning
- Distributed Systems
- Semantic Similarity
- Integrated Circuits
- Visualization
- Text Classification
- Simulation
- Information Retrieval
- IoT Security
- Supply Chain Management
- Security
- Artificial Intelligence
- Healthcare
- Big Data
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Neural Networks
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Data Mining
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Unsupervised Learning
- Anomaly Detection
- Quantum Information
- Convolutional Networks
- Topic Modeling
- Machine Translation
- Word Representation
- Entanglement
- Parallel Computing
- Quantum Simulation
- Quantum Computation
- Computer Graphics
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
- Deep Learning565▲ 2.5×82 topics
- Machine Learning395▲ 1.81×92 topics
- Neural Networks298▲ 2.9×39 topics
- Sustainability196▲ 1.21×105 topics
- Epidemiology177▼ 0.67×129 topics
- Big Data138▲ 2.3×29 topics
- Globalization128◆ 0.98×128 topics
- Healthcare121▲ 1.61×36 topics
- Mental Health114▲ 1.17×45 topics
- Artificial Intelligence112▲ 1.23×53 topics
- Public Health107◆ 1.10×67 topics
- Security104▲ 2.4×26 topics
- Data Mining100▲ 2.0×22 topics
- Supply Chain Management88▲ 1.42×23 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks88▲ 1.79×14 topics
- IoT Security74▲ 3.5×3 topics
- Unsupervised Learning69▲ 7.3×3 topics
- Information Retrieval67▲ 4.6×6 topics
- Anomaly Detection66▲ 3.4×5 topics
- Simulation58▲ 3.4×15 topics
- Quantum Information58▲ 7.4×3 topics
- Text Classification56▲ 5.3×3 topics
- Convolutional Networks56▲ 6.0×3 topics
- Visualization55▲ 14×4 topics
- Topic Modeling52▲ 5.4×3 topics
- Integrated Circuits51▲ 4.9×3 topics
- Machine Translation49▲ 4.4×2 topics
- Semantic Similarity48▲ 6.0×1 topic
- Word Representation48▲ 6.0×1 topic
- Distributed Systems47▲ 4.2×6 topics
- Entanglement47▲ 4.7×4 topics
- Representation Learning47▲ 5.1×3 topics
- Parallel Computing46▲ 5.9×6 topics
- Generative Adversarial Networks42▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Quantum Simulation40▲ 7.6×2 topics
- Quantum Algorithms39▲ 11×1 topic
- Quantum Computation39▲ 11×1 topic
- Depth Estimation38▲ 6.7×2 topics
- Computer Graphics36▲ 21×1 topic
- Rendering36▲ 21×1 topic
What research is done in San Jose?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 48 works
- 2 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 39 works
- 3 Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 36 works
- 4 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 33 works
- 5 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 32 works
- 6 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 31 works
- 7 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 30 works
- 8 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 30 works
- 9 Semiconductor materials and devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 30 works
- 10 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 28 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.