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Research in San Mateo

Science Explorer records 25 research institutions in San Mateo, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Palo Alto Institute and College of San Mateo.

Research institutions
25
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
6.3k
▲ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
196k
30.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
24.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
San Mateo

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 San Mateo?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Palo Alto InstituteNonprofit 3,449 #1,786
2College of San MateoUniversity 426 #15,872
3Helix (United States)Company 351 #2,136 all time
4Calabazas Creek Research (United States)Company 285 #32,763 all time
5San Mateo County Health SystemHospital / health system 142 #28,620 all time
6Stottler Henke Associates (United States)Company 140 #33,610 all time
7San Mateo Medical CenterHospital / health system 123 #32,925 all time
8Bay Area Community Health Advisory CouncilHospital / health system 109 not ranked
9Konica Minolta (United States)Company 88 not ranked
10Evidation Health (United States)Company 55 not ranked
11The Radiosurgery SocietyNonprofit 27 not ranked
12Noddle (United States)Company 26 not ranked
13Deltagen (United States)Company 25 not ranked
14Odyssey SchoolUniversity 18 not ranked
15Doximity (United States)Company 16 not ranked
16GoPro (United States)Company 15 not ranked
17Patient Knowhow (United States)Company 12 not ranked
18San Mateo County Community College DistrictUniversity 10 not ranked
19CuriOdysseyArchive 8 not ranked
20Hospital Consortium of San Mateo CountyHospital / health system 5 not ranked
21San Mateo County ProbationGovernment institution 5 not ranked
22Clayton Christensen InstituteNonprofit 4 not ranked
23Health Fidelity (United States)Company 3 not ranked
24Exploring New HorizonsUniversity 3 not ranked
25Emodo (United States)Company 2 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.

Palo Alto Institute: 64.5%College of San Mateo: 8.0%Helix (United States): 6.6%Calabazas Creek Research (United States): 5.3%21 others listed: 15.6%65%largest
Palo Alto Institute3,449 · 64.5%College of San Mateo426 · 8.0%Helix (United States)351 · 6.6%Calabazas Creek Research (United States)285 · 5.3%21 others listed836 · 15.6%

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

Which fields of science does San Mateo work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research in San Mateo is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (37%), Medicine (17%), Engineering (13%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 776 fractional works · 58.5% of its workComputer Science: 495 fractional works · 37.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 192 fractional works · 14.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 140 fractional works · 10.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 53 fractional works · 4.0% of its workInformation Systems: 38 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSignal Processing: 28 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHardware and Architecture: 12 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 172 fractional works · 12.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 48 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 20 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 19 fractional works · 1.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 16 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 14 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 38 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 11 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 21 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 18 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 16 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCatalysis: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 252 fractional works · 19.0% of its workMedicine: 229 fractional works · 17.3% of its workOncology: 25 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 24 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 17 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 16 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 16 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysiology: 12 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 12 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 20 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 168 fractional works · 12.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 57 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 23 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 32 fractional works · 2.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 28 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 18 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 14 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 17 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 15 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 131 fractional works · 9.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 87 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 44 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGenetics: 20 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCancer Research: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 17 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 13 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workParasitology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSan Mateo1,326fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences59%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences13%

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 Science49537.3%
    2. Engineering17212.9%
    3. Environmental Science382.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy211.6%
    5. Materials Science181.4%
    6. Mathematics90.7%
    7. Chemistry70.5%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences60.5%
    9. Chemical Engineering50.3%
    10. Energy40.3%
    1. Medicine22917.3%
    2. Health Professions201.5%
    3. Nursing20.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Social Sciences574.3%
    2. Psychology322.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting282.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance181.4%
    5. Decision Sciences171.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities151.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology876.6%
    2. Neuroscience171.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology131.0%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences120.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is San Mateo strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in San Mateo is most concentrated in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (8.7× the world share in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition).

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 122.4 works8.7×
  2. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 25.2 works7.5×
  3. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 158.9 works5.9×
  4. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 49.4 works5.0×
← 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: 0.21× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.13× its world share, 67 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.06× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.81× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.18× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.32× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.90× its world share, 425 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.42× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.88× its world share, 148 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.63× its world share, 35 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.18× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.62× its world share, 8 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.68× its world share, 17 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.52× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.85× its world share, 182 worksMedicineNursing: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.36× its world share, 12 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.74× its world share, 27 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.34× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.71× its world share, 17 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.84× its world share, 29 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 52 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.90×425 works
  2. Decision Sciences1.34×14 works
  3. Chemical Engineering1.18×5 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.13×67 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.06×12 works
  6. Engineering0.88×148 works
  7. Medicine0.85×182 works
  8. Psychology0.84×29 works
  9. Neuroscience0.81×15 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.74×27 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.71×17 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.68×17 works
  13. Environmental Science0.63×35 works
  14. Mathematics0.62×8 works
  15. Health Professions0.52×15 works
  16. Energy0.42×4 works
  17. Social Sciences0.37×52 works
  18. Nursing0.36×2 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.36×12 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.34×1 works
  21. Chemistry0.32×6 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.32×6 works
  23. Veterinary0.26×0 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.21×11 works
  25. Materials Science0.18×7 works
  26. Dentistry0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in San Mateo?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Unsupervised Learning, Representation Learning, Information Retrieval, Text Classification and Machine Learning.

▲ 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 Learning216▲ 4.7×70 topics
  2. Neural Networks138▲ 6.7×35 topics
  3. Machine Learning74▲ 1.68×67 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks51▲ 5.3×13 topics
  5. Unsupervised Learning41▲ 20×3 topics
  6. Representation Learning40▲ 19×3 topics
  7. Big Data36▲ 2.8×22 topics
  8. Information Retrieval35▲ 12×4 topics
  9. Text Classification34▲ 16×3 topics
  10. Topic Modeling32▲ 16×2 topics
  11. Machine Translation32▲ 14×2 topics
  12. Semantic Similarity31▲ 19×1 topic
  13. Word Representation31▲ 19×1 topic
  14. Energy Efficiency30▲ 2.5×19 topics
  15. Semi-Supervised Learning28▲ 17×3 topics
  16. Distributed Systems26▲ 12×6 topics
  17. Corpus Linguistics24▲ 8.7×2 topics
  18. Neural Machine Translation24▲ 19×1 topic
  19. Statistical Machine Translation24▲ 19×1 topic
  20. Security23▲ 2.6×17 topics
  21. Image Captioning22▲ 30×1 topic
  22. Visual Question Answering22▲ 18×1 topic
  23. Meta-Learning22▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Transfer Learning21▲ 8.4×3 topics
  25. Convolutional Networks21▲ 12×3 topics
  26. Precision Medicine20▲ 3.0×8 topics
  27. Deep Neural Networks20▲ 12×3 topics
  28. Generative Adversarial Networks19▲ 16×2 topics
  29. Resource Management19▲ 8.4×5 topics
  30. Cloud Computing18▲ 4.9×6 topics
  31. Parallel Computing18▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Domain Adaptation18▲ 24×1 topic
  33. Few-Shot Learning18▲ 24×1 topic
  34. Pose Estimation17▲ 11×3 topics
  35. Virtualization16▲ 15×2 topics
  36. Image Classification15▲ 6.1×2 topics
  37. Image Inpainting14▲ 22×1 topic
  38. Image Synthesis14▲ 22×1 topic
  39. Data Centers14▲ 18×1 topic
  40. MapReduce14▲ 18×1 topic

What research is done in San Mateo?

Topic Modeling25Topic Modeling: 25 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 22 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…16Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 16 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Fe…14Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 14 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 13 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 12 fractional worksAdvanced Image and Video…11Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques: 11 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 10 fractional worksAdvanced Data Storage Technologies: 9 fractional worksAdvanced Vision and Imaging: 9 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionInformation SystemsComputer Networks and Communications

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 25 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  3. 3 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 16 works
  4. 4 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 14 works
  5. 5 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 13 works
  6. 6 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 12 works
  7. 7 Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 11 works
  8. 8 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 10 works
  9. 9 Advanced Data Storage Technologies Computer Networks and Communications 9 works
  10. 10 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 9 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%San Mateo20.5% 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 35.4% in 1996.

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