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Research in Santa Barbara

Science Explorer records 60 research institutions in Santa Barbara, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of California, Santa Barbara, Fielding Graduate University and Westmont College.

Research institutions
60
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
78k
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.6M
46.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
22.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Santa Barbara

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 Santa Barbara?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity 72,340 #104
2Fielding Graduate UniversityUniversity 1,091 #8,022
3Westmont CollegeUniversity 685 #13,333
4Santa Barbara City CollegeUniversity 581 #2,405 all time
5Santa Barbara Cottage HospitalHospital / health system 418 #21,924
6RC Electronics (United States)Company 396 #16,746 all time
7Sansum Medical ClinicHospital / health system 346 #23,753 all time
8Inflammatory Response Research (United States)Company 289 #18,946 all time
9Council on Alcoholism and Drug AbuseInstitution 255 #23,067 all time
10Santa Barbara Botanic GardenArchive 237 #26,225 all time
11Santa Barbara Museum of Natural HistoryArchive 216 #30,018 all time
12Goleta Engineering (United States)Company 186 #23,553 all time
13Sansum Diabetes Research InstituteNonprofit 174 #29,402 all time
14Freedom Photonics (United States)Company 108 not ranked
15Anacapa Sciences (United States)Company 97 not ranked
16Angstrom Designs (United States)Company 87 not ranked
17Cottage HealthHospital / health system 79 not ranked
18Computational Sensors (United States)Company 76 not ranked
19Advanced Scientific Concepts (United States)Company 75 not ranked
20Next Energy Technologies (United States)Company 61 not ranked
21Agile RF (United States)Company 38 not ranked
22Antioch University Santa BarbaraUniversity 35 not ranked
23Innovative Micro Technology (United States)Company 35 not ranked
24Advanced Life Technologies (United States)Company 29 not ranked
25Santa Barbara Business CollegeUniversity 27 not ranked
26Santa Barbara County Public Health DepartmentGovernment institution 24 not ranked
27Santa Barbara Museum of ArtArchive 20 not ranked
28HHV-6 FoundationNonprofit 19 not ranked
29Mayachitra (United States)Company 18 not ranked
30Thorleaf Research (United States)Company 16 not ranked
31Akela (United States)Company 14 not ranked
32Garden Street AcademyUniversity 14 not ranked
33Cyan Systems (United States)Company 13 not ranked
34Arctic Data CenterArchive 13 not ranked
35Senseeker Engineering (United States)Company 13 not ranked
36Reaction35 (United States)Company 12 not ranked
37Inovati (United States)Company 11 not ranked
38Direct ReliefNonprofit 11 not ranked
39CBRITE (United States)Company 9 not ranked
40New Media StudioInstitution 8 not ranked
41Frontier Technology Incorporation (United States)Company 6 not ranked
42Fifth Gait Technologies (United States)Company 6 not ranked
43Aptitude Medical SystemsCompany 5 not ranked
44Visus (United States)Company 4 not ranked
45Acelot (United States)Company 4 not ranked
46Santa Barbara Trust for Historic PreservationNonprofit 3 not ranked
47Pacific StandardInstitution 3 not ranked
48Department of Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health ServicesGovernment institution 3 not ranked
49Sientra (United States)Company 3 not ranked
50Maasai Wilderness Conservation TrustNonprofit 2 not ranked
51Owl Biomedical (United States)Company 2 not ranked
52Apeel Sciences (United States)Company 2 not ranked
53Dream FoundationNonprofit 2 not ranked
54Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife InstituteNonprofit 2 not ranked
55AppScale (United States)Company 2 not ranked
56Gwendolyn Strong FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
57United Way of Santa Barbara CountyNonprofit 1 not ranked
58Knowledge Network for BiocomplexityArchive 1 not ranked
59Vionyx (United States)Company 0 not ranked
60Glenn Foundation for Medical ResearchResearch facility 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.

University of California, Santa Barbara: 92.5%Fielding Graduate University: 1.4%Westmont College: 0.9%Santa Barbara City College: 0.7%54 others listed: 4.5%92%largest
University of California, Santa Barbara72k · 92.5%Fielding Graduate University1,091 · 1.4%Westmont College685 · 0.9%Santa Barbara City College581 · 0.7%54 others listed3,531 · 4.5%

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

Which fields of science does Santa Barbara work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research in Santa Barbara is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (15%), Engineering (13%), Computer Science (9%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 4,273 fractional works · 52.4% of its workEngineering: 1,098 fractional works · 13.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 483 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 142 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 108 fractional works · 1.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 71 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 48 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 772 fractional works · 9.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 331 fractional works · 4.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 122 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 72 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 71 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 62 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 683 fractional works · 8.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 255 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 135 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 110 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 86 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 75 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 563 fractional works · 6.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 166 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology: 152 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 41 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 40 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEcological Modeling: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 400 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 243 fractional works · 3.0% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 67 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 312 fractional works · 3.8% of its workOceanography: 83 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeophysics: 80 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 73 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPaleontology: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 186 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 108 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 174 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 41 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 53 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 51 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,503 fractional works · 30.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,211 fractional works · 14.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 466 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 133 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEducation: 127 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 67 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 65 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 59 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 44 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 430 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 131 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 124 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 96 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 48 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 421 fractional works · 5.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 77 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 69 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory: 57 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 49 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 48 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 28 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReligious studies: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 202 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 150 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFinance: 39 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 124 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 115 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 73 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 824 fractional works · 10.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 340 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 192 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGenetics: 56 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 58 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 261 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 166 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 62 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 177 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 62 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 42 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 12 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 559 fractional works · 6.9% of its workMedicine: 444 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 41 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 28 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 147 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 97 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 64 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSanta Barbara8,158fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences52%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences31%

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. Engineering1,09813.5%
    2. Computer Science7729.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy6838.4%
    4. Environmental Science5636.9%
    5. Materials Science4004.9%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences3123.8%
    7. Chemistry1862.3%
    8. Mathematics1742.1%
    9. Energy530.6%
    10. Chemical Engineering330.4%
  2. Social Sciences2,50330.7%
    1. Social Sciences1,21114.8%
    2. Psychology4305.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities4215.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2022.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting1241.5%
    6. Decision Sciences1151.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3404.2%
    2. Neuroscience2613.2%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1772.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology330.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics120.1%
    1. Medicine4445.4%
    2. Health Professions971.2%
    3. Nursing110.1%
    4. Dentistry40.1%
    5. Veterinary30.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Santa Barbara strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Santa Barbara is most concentrated in Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and History and Philosophy of Science (8.5× the world share in Condensed Matter Physics).

  1. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 99.9 works8.5×
  2. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 236.8 works4.5×
  3. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 43.8 works3.9×
  4. Physics and AstronomyField · 629.3 works3.9×
← 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: 0.45× its world share, 157 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.76× its world share, 300 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 27 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.88× its world share, 224 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.38× its world share, 10 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.12× its world share, 29 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.49× its world share, 172 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.23× its world share, 706 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.37× its world share, 274 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.72× its world share, 49 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.92× its world share, 1,016 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.37× its world share, 501 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.42× its world share, 363 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.71× its world share, 148 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 3.85× its world share, 629 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.46× its world share, 89 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 386 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 10 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.75× its world share, 371 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.49× its world share, 115 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.46× its world share, 104 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.19× its world share, 187 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.67× its world share, 375 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.19× its world share, 1,104 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy3.85×629 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.37×274 works
  3. Neuroscience1.88×224 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.75×371 works
  5. Mathematics1.71×148 works
  6. Psychology1.67×375 works
  7. Chemistry1.49×172 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.46×104 works
  9. Materials Science1.42×363 works
  10. Environmental Science1.37×501 works
  11. Computer Science1.23×706 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.19×187 works
  13. Social Sciences1.19×1,104 works
  14. Chemical Engineering1.12×29 works
  15. Engineering0.92×1,016 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.76×300 works
  17. Energy0.72×49 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.49×115 works
  19. Health Professions0.46×89 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.45×157 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.38×10 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×27 works
  23. Nursing0.28×10 works
  24. Medicine0.27×386 works
  25. Veterinary0.27×3 works
  26. Dentistry0.07×3 works

Which keywords describe research in Santa Barbara?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Nanowires, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Integrated Circuits, Band Parameters, Neural Networks and Globalization.

▲ 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 Change433▲ 1.95×101 topics
  2. Machine Learning293◆ 1.08×87 topics
  3. Deep Learning288◆ 1.02×81 topics
  4. Globalization202▲ 1.26×113 topics
  5. Neural Networks185▲ 1.47×37 topics
  6. Sustainability168▼ 0.84×90 topics
  7. Mental Health167▲ 1.43×42 topics
  8. History124▲ 2.2×46 topics
  9. Identity118▲ 1.99×58 topics
  10. Colonialism114▲ 2.9×43 topics
  11. Biosensors113▲ 2.8×12 topics
  12. Gender109▲ 2.5×47 topics
  13. Religion106▲ 2.8×31 topics
  14. Nanowires104▲ 9.0×5 topics
  15. Culture93▲ 2.2×29 topics
  16. Global Warming92▲ 2.6×14 topics
  17. Integrated Circuits92▲ 7.8×3 topics
  18. Nationalism92▲ 2.5×29 topics
  19. Semiconductor86▲ 3.2×7 topics
  20. Feminism83▲ 3.5×24 topics
  21. Semiconductors83▲ 3.5×5 topics
  22. Band Parameters81▲ 18×2 topics
  23. Thin Films72▲ 4.6×10 topics
  24. Optical Modulators70▲ 6.0×3 topics
  25. Raman Lasers68▲ 7.9×2 topics
  26. Microcavities66▲ 7.7×2 topics
  27. Superconductivity66▲ 4.6×9 topics
  28. Silicon Photonics64▲ 7.8×2 topics
  29. Ecosystem Resilience63▲ 5.0×5 topics
  30. Nanophotonic Waveguides63▲ 8.6×1 topic
  31. Whispering Gallery Mode63▲ 8.6×1 topic
  32. Light-Emitting Diodes62▲ 5.0×3 topics
  33. Ocean Acidification60▲ 9.8×3 topics
  34. GaN54▲ 19×2 topics
  35. Quantum Gravity54▲ 7.9×4 topics
  36. Black Holes53▲ 6.7×3 topics
  37. Solid-State Lighting51▲ 8.1×2 topics
  38. Photodetectors50▲ 7.8×2 topics
  39. AlGaN/GaN HEMTs49▲ 20×1 topic
  40. III-Nitrides49▲ 20×1 topic

What research is done in Santa Barbara?

Photonic and Optical Devices: 60 fractional worksGaN-based semiconductor devices and materials: 41 fractional worksBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics: 33 fractional worksAdvanced Fiber Laser Technologies: 32 fractional worksSemiconductor Quantum St…31Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices: 31 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 28 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 28 fractional worksGa2O3 and related materi…27Ga2O3 and related materials: 27 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 27 fractional worksSemiconductor materials and devices: 26 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringCondensed Matter PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3 others

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

  1. 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 60 works
  2. 2 GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials Condensed Matter Physics 41 works
  3. 3 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 33 works
  4. 4 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 32 works
  5. 5 Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 31 works
  6. 6 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 28 works
  7. 7 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 28 works
  8. 8 Ga2O3 and related materials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 27 works
  9. 9 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 27 works
  10. 10 Semiconductor materials and devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 26 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%60%Santa Barbara20.0% 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 40.3% in 2013.

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