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Akamai (United States)

In research, Akamai (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#2,177 of 6,336 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#10,077 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Science (Computer Science is 4.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#18,084
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#3,766
of 7,310
Research works
306
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.2k
26.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Akamai (United States)

What is Akamai (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Computer ScienceField #2,177 of 6,336 21.4%155
Physical SciencesDomain #10,077 of 17,446 19.6%211

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Akamai (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 fields of science does Akamai (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research at Akamai (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (36%), Social Sciences (18%), Environmental Science (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 38 fractional works · 57.2% of its workComputer Science: 24 fractional works · 36.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 10 fractional works · 15.6% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 6.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 5.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 12.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 5.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 27.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 17.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 9.6% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 11.0% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKAkamai (UnitedStates)66fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences57%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences27%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science2436.0%
    2. Environmental Science812.2%
    3. Engineering45.8%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences22.4%
    5. Mathematics00.5%
    6. Energy00.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences1217.7%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting23.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities11.8%
    4. Decision Sciences11.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.5%
    6. Psychology00.8%
    1. Medicine35.3%
    2. Health Professions34.2%
    3. Nursing10.8%
    4. Dentistry00.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.6%
    4. Neuroscience00.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Akamai (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Science takes 4.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer ScienceField · 23.6 works4.6×
← 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: 0.53× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 4.63× its world share, 24 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.54× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.45× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.28× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.61× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 1.71× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.03× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.87× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.40× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.63×24 works
  2. Environmental Science2.45×8 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.87×1 works
  4. Nursing1.71×0 works
  5. Health Professions1.61×3 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.54×2 works
  7. Social Sciences1.40×12 works
  8. Dentistry1.28×0 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting1.03×2 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.71×1 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.63×1 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.60×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.53×2 works
  14. Mathematics0.41×0 works
  15. Engineering0.39×4 works
  16. Neuroscience0.35×0 works
  17. Medicine0.28×4 works
  18. Psychology0.25×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×1 works
  20. Energy0.18×0 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Akamai (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Sanju Purohit, Moritz Steiner and Arthur Berger lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Akamai (United States).

  1. 1 Sanju Purohit United States · #368,820 worldwide 546 citations · 53 works
  2. 2 Moritz Steiner United States · #575,690 worldwide 2.1k citations · 58 works
  3. 3 Arthur Berger United States · #579,946 worldwide 2.7k citations · 63 works
  4. 4 Malaikannan Sankarasubbu United States · #930,876 worldwide 811 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Ali Raza United States · #1,245,925 worldwide 459 citations · 41 works
  6. 6 Medani P. Bhandari United States · #1,862,177 worldwide 881 citations · 181 works
  7. 7 Jagdish Parikh United States · #2,234,259 worldwide 1.1k citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Ariel Segall United States · #2,247,333 worldwide 253 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Martin Flack United States · #2,469,321 worldwide 225 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Tim Bruijnzeels United States · #3,013,650 worldwide 115 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Akamai (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Akamai (United States) is "Understanding the mirai botnet" (Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Q. Bailey et al., 2017), with 1,052 citations. Next come "FAST TCP: Motivation, Architecture, Algorithms, Performance" (962) and "Smoothed analysis of algorithms" (850).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding the mirai botnet Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Q. Bailey et al. · USENIX Security Symposium Conference paper 16 Aug 2017 1,052
2 FAST TCP: Motivation, Architecture, Algorithms, Performance David X. Wei, Cheng Jin, Steven H. Low et al. · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Dec 2006 962
3 Smoothed analysis of algorithms Daniel A. Spielman, Shang‐Hua Teng · Journal of the ACM May 2004 850
4 Cutting the electric bill for internet-scale systems Asfandyar Qureshi, Rick Weber, Hari Balakrishnan et al. Conference paperOpen access 16 Aug 2009 840
5 Nearly-linear time algorithms for graph partitioning, graph sparsification, and solving linear systems Daniel A. Spielman, Shang‐Hua Teng Conference paper 13 Jun 2004 807
All 56 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Akamai (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Anomaly Detection, IoT Security, Distributed Systems and Wireless Networks.

▲ 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. Machine Learning7▲ 3.2×19 topics
  2. Deep Learning6▲ 2.8×15 topics
  3. Climate Change5▲ 2.9×27 topics
  4. Remote Sensing4▲ 5.2×16 topics
  5. Sustainability3▲ 1.85×14 topics
  6. Anomaly Detection3▲ 15×2 topics
  7. Internet of Things3▲ 4.5×6 topics
  8. Distributed Systems2▲ 22×5 topics
  9. IoT Security2▲ 13×3 topics
  10. Qualitative Research2▲ 4.5×6 topics
  11. Wireless Networks2▲ 25×2 topics
  12. Social Media2▲ 2.3×4 topics
  13. Community Empowerment2▲ 4.2×5 topics
  14. Consumer Behavior2▲ 4.9×4 topics
  15. Economic Growth2▲ 3.8×5 topics
  16. Global Warming2▲ 6.8×5 topics
  17. Content Delivery2▲ 79×2 topics
  18. Behavioral Analysis2▲ 23×2 topics
  19. Customer Satisfaction2▲ 8.0×3 topics
  20. Data Mining2▲ 3.4×2 topics
  21. Social Justice2▲ 4.3×5 topics
  22. Social Networks2▲ 9.4×3 topics
  23. 5G Networks2▲ 12×2 topics
  24. Land Use Change2▲ 8.3×5 topics
  25. Intrusion Detection2▲ 16×2 topics
  26. Wireless Sensor Networks2▲ 5.1×2 topics
  27. Cybersecurity1▲ 8.8×2 topics
  28. Log Analysis1▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Performance Prediction1▲ 31×1 topic
  30. Smart Cards1▲ 140×2 topics
  31. Caching1▲ 72×1 topic
  32. DDoS Attacks1▲ 17×1 topic
  33. Image Quality Assessment1▲ 117×1 topic
  34. Information-Centric Networking1▲ 72×1 topic
  35. Network Security1▲ 16×1 topic
  36. Perceptual Quality1▲ 117×1 topic
  37. Congestion Control1▲ 183×1 topic
  38. Environmental Policy1▲ 8.3×3 topics
  39. Gender Inequality1▲ 12×2 topics
  40. TCP1▲ 183×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022-now: Software System Performance and Reliability, Caching and Content Delivery, Network Security and Intrusion Detection and Image and Video Quality Assessment.

Software System Performa…1Software System Performance and Reliability: 1 fractional worksCaching and Content Deli…1Caching and Content Delivery: 1 fractional worksNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection: 1 fractional worksImage and Video Quality …1Image and Video Quality Assessment: 1 fractional worksNetwork Traffic and Cong…1Network Traffic and Congestion Control: 1 fractional worksSoftware-Defined Networks and 5G: 1 fractional worksInternet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting: 1 fractional worksSpam and Phishing Detect…1Spam and Phishing Detection: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Authentication Protocols Security: 1 fractional worksDigital Marketing and Social Media: 1 fractional works
Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceInformation Systems1 others

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

  1. 1 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  2. 2 Caching and Content Delivery Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  3. 3 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  4. 4 Image and Video Quality Assessment Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  5. 5 Network Traffic and Congestion Control Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  6. 6 Software-Defined Networks and 5G Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  7. 7 Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  8. 8 Spam and Phishing Detection Information Systems 1 works
  9. 9 Advanced Authentication Protocols Security Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  10. 10 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 1 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 available40.5%not open59.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.1%domestic only74.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower 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 Akamai (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00038% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Akamai (United States)0.00036% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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