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Adobe Systems (United States)

In research, Adobe Systems (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#534 of 4,417 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,774 of 10,670 worldwide) and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (#162 of 963 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Human-Computer Interaction (Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design is 61.6× its share of world research).

adobe.comROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#3,617
of 22,385 · #2,834 all time
Rank in United States
#537
of 3,332
Research works
2k
▲ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
93k
45.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.34×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
Adobe Systems (United States)

What is Adobe Systems (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Computer ScienceField #534 of 4,417 17.9%459 #596
Physical SciencesDomain #1,774 of 10,670 18.2%553 #1804
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #162 of 963 21.5%213 #172
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #792 of 1,862 12.1%117 #894
EngineeringField #4,160 of 5,901 19.2%72 #3373
Social SciencesDomain #7,957 of 9,585 16.4%70 #7751

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Adobe Systems (United States) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Computer Science#596 #534
  2. Physical Sciences#1,804 #1,774
  3. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#172 #162
  4. Artificial Intelligence#894 #792
  5. Engineering#3,373 #4,160
  6. Social Sciences#7,751 #7,957
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Adobe Systems (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 84% of research at Adobe Systems (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 12% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (70%), Engineering (10%), Social Sciences (4%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 619 fractional works · 83.5% of its workComputer Science: 517 fractional works · 69.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 234 fractional works · 31.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 138 fractional works · 18.6% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 38 fractional works · 5.1% of its workSignal Processing: 26 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems: 26 fractional works · 3.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 23 fractional works · 3.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 18 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 77 fractional works · 10.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 31 fractional works · 4.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 89 fractional works · 12.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 21 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 18 fractional works · 2.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 2.6% of its workNeuroscience: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKAdobe Systems(United States)741fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences84%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences12%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science51769.8%
    2. Engineering7710.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy91.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences50.6%
    5. Materials Science40.5%
    6. Mathematics40.5%
    7. Environmental Science30.3%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    9. Energy00.0%
    1. Social Sciences263.6%
    2. Decision Sciences212.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting182.5%
    4. Psychology131.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities91.2%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.3%
    1. Neuroscience141.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine101.3%
    2. Health Professions50.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Adobe Systems (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design takes 61.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignSubfield · 37.6 works62×
  2. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 233.8 works25×
  3. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 22.9 works15×
  4. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 26.5 works12×
  5. Computer ScienceField · 517.4 works9.0×
  6. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 137.7 works7.7×
  7. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 30.8 works7.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.13× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 8.98× its world share, 517 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.70× its world share, 77 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.54× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 10 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.41× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.76× its world share, 18 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.91× its world share, 21 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.57× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 26 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 9.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science8.98×517 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.91×21 works
  3. Neuroscience1.13×14 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting0.76×18 works
  5. Engineering0.70×77 works
  6. Psychology0.57×13 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.54×9 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.41×5 works
  9. Mathematics0.41×4 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.41×9 works
  11. Social Sciences0.28×26 works
  12. Health Professions0.23×4 works
  13. Materials Science0.15×4 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.13×2 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×4 works
  16. Environmental Science0.07×3 works
  17. Medicine0.07×10 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×1 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.03×0 works
  20. Chemistry0.02×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.01×0 works
  22. Energy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Adobe Systems (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Eli Shechtman, Oliver Wang and Zhe Lin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Adobe Systems (United States).

  1. 1 Eli Shechtman United States · #13,209 worldwide 43k citations · 282 works
  2. 2 Oliver Wang United States · #30,039 worldwide 27k citations · 169 works
  3. 3 Zhe Lin United States · #36,879 worldwide 24k citations · 351 works
  4. 4 Kalyan Sunkavalli United States · #37,981 worldwide 8k citations · 163 works
  5. 5 Aaron Hertzmann United States · #38,646 worldwide 22k citations · 229 works
  6. 6 Aseem Agarwala United States · #48,927 worldwide 9k citations · 84 works
  7. 7 Sylvain Paris United States · #53,295 worldwide 14k citations · 131 works
  8. 8 Xiaohui Shen United States · #54,252 worldwide 21k citations · 212 works
  9. 9 Ersin Yumer United States · #57,202 worldwide 6.2k citations · 71 works
  10. 10 Scott D. Cohen United States · #65,434 worldwide 12k citations · 728 works
All ranked researchers at Adobe Systems (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Adobe Systems (United States)?

The most cited paper from Adobe Systems (United States) is "CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module" (Sanghyun Woo, Jongchan Park, Joon‐Young Lee et al., 2018), with 23,707 citations. Next come "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric" (13,833) and "The No-U-turn sampler: adaptively setting path lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo" (3,272).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module Sanghyun Woo, Jongchan Park, Joon‐Young Lee et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2018 23,707
2 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric Richard Zhang, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros et al. Conference paper Jun 2018 13,833
3 The No-U-turn sampler: adaptively setting path lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Matthew D. Homan, Andrew Gelman · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 2014 3,272
4 PatchMatch Connelly Barnes, Eli Shechtman, Adam Finkelstein et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics 27 Jul 2009 3,005
5 Generative Image Inpainting with Contextual Attention Jiahui Yu, Zhe Lin, Jimei Yang et al. Conference paper Jun 2018 2,537
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Adobe Systems (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Unsupervised Learning, Convolutional Networks, Representation Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks and Simulation.

▲ 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 institution'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 Learning246▲ 9.6×60 topics
  2. Neural Networks151▲ 13×27 topics
  3. Unsupervised Learning69▲ 61×3 topics
  4. Machine Learning65▲ 2.6×55 topics
  5. Convolutional Networks48▲ 48×3 topics
  6. Representation Learning45▲ 38×3 topics
  7. Generative Adversarial Networks42▲ 64×2 topics
  8. Convolutional Neural Networks40▲ 7.5×10 topics
  9. Simulation38▲ 20×7 topics
  10. Information Retrieval36▲ 23×4 topics
  11. Visualization36▲ 85×2 topics
  12. Computer Graphics35▲ 183×1 topic
  13. Rendering35▲ 183×1 topic
  14. Big Data34▲ 4.9×16 topics
  15. Text Classification33▲ 27×3 topics
  16. Depth Estimation32▲ 55×2 topics
  17. Image Inpainting32▲ 88×1 topic
  18. Image Synthesis32▲ 88×1 topic
  19. Topic Modeling32▲ 28×2 topics
  20. Machine Translation30▲ 24×2 topics
  21. Semantic Similarity30▲ 32×1 topic
  22. Word Representation30▲ 32×1 topic
  23. Optical Flow29▲ 80×1 topic
  24. Stereo Vision29▲ 80×1 topic
  25. 3D Reconstruction28▲ 41×2 topics
  26. Point Clouds28▲ 41×2 topics
  27. Image Captioning26▲ 62×1 topic
  28. Visual Question Answering26▲ 38×1 topic
  29. Mesh Segmentation24▲ 108×1 topic
  30. Shape Representation24▲ 108×1 topic
  31. Content-Based Retrieval20▲ 115×1 topic
  32. Video Summarization20▲ 115×1 topic
  33. Corpus Linguistics20▲ 13×3 topics
  34. Neural Machine Translation20▲ 29×1 topic
  35. Statistical Machine Translation20▲ 29×1 topic
  36. Object Recognition15▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Feature Matching15▲ 34×1 topic
  38. Local Descriptors15▲ 34×1 topic
  39. Pose Estimation14▲ 16×2 topics
  40. Semi-Supervised Learning14▲ 15×3 topics

Which research topics does Adobe Systems (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Topic Modeling and Advanced Vision and Imaging.

Computer Graphics and Vi…35Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques: 35 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial N…32Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 32 fractional worksTopic Modeling30Topic Modeling: 30 fractional worksAdvanced Vision and Imag…29Advanced Vision and Imaging: 29 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 26 fractional works3D Shape Modeling and Analysis: 24 fractional worksVideo Analysis and Summa…20Video Analysis and Summarization: 20 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 20 fractional worksAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques: 15 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Recognition: 10 fractional works
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceComputational Mechanics

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

  1. 1 Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 35 works
  2. 2 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 32 works
  3. 3 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 30 works
  4. 4 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 29 works
  5. 5 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 26 works
  6. 6 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis Computational Mechanics 24 works
  7. 7 Video Analysis and Summarization Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 20 works
  8. 8 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 20 works
  9. 9 Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 15 works
  10. 10 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 10 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available39.3%not open60.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.8%domestic only68.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Adobe Systems (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Adobe Systems (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0029% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Adobe Systems (United States)0.0029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Adobe Systems (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%60%Adobe Systems (United States)18.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 43.7% in 2011.

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