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Cadence Design Systems (United States)

In research, Cadence Design Systems (United States) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#6,249 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#3,710 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering is 5.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,119
of 22,385 · #5,411 all time
Rank in United States
#1,842
of 3,332
Research works
1.6k
▲ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
27k
16.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.88×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
14%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Cadence Design Systems (United States)

What is Cadence Design 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
Physical SciencesDomain #6,249 of 10,670 5.9%130 #2207
EngineeringField #3,710 of 5,901 5.7%90 #2159

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

In 2022-now, 80% of research at Cadence Design Systems (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (56%), Computer Science (17%), Medicine (5%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 149 fractional works · 80.0% of its workEngineering: 105 fractional works · 56.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 37 fractional works · 19.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 17 fractional works · 9.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 14 fractional works · 7.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMedia Technology: 9 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 31 fractional works · 16.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 12 fractional works · 6.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 21 fractional works · 11.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCadence DesignSystems (United…186fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences11%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering10556.5%
    2. Computer Science3116.6%
    3. Materials Science52.6%
    4. Environmental Science42.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.8%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.6%
    7. Mathematics10.4%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences105.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting31.6%
    3. Psychology31.4%
    4. Decision Sciences21.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities21.1%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.8%
    1. Medicine105.3%
    2. Health Professions10.7%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.5%
    2. Neuroscience10.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Cadence Design Systems (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Electrical and Electronic Engineering takes 5.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 36.9 works5.6×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.85× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.14× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 3.77× its world share, 105 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.74× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.49× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.16× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.77×105 works
  2. Computer Science2.14×31 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.16×2 works
  4. Chemical Engineering0.85×1 works
  5. Materials Science0.74×5 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting0.49×3 works
  7. Neuroscience0.45×1 works
  8. Environmental Science0.45×4 works
  9. Psychology0.45×2 works
  10. Social Sciences0.41×10 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.37×1 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.37×2 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.36×1 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.36×1 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.34×1 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.33×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.33×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.28×3 works
  19. Medicine0.28×10 works
  20. Health Professions0.25×1 works
  21. Nursing0.09×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.06×0 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, Kenneth L. McMillan, K. Tseng and Kent W. Leyde lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cadence Design Systems (United States).

  1. 1 Kenneth L. McMillan United States · #61,838 worldwide 17k citations · 166 works
  2. 2 K. Tseng United States · #242,429 worldwide 4k citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Kent W. Leyde United States · #257,350 worldwide 2.3k citations · 27 works
  4. 4 Howard Wong-Toi United States · #261,071 worldwide 3.6k citations · 42 works
  5. 5 Andreas Kuehlmann United States · #658,433 worldwide 3.1k citations · 114 works
  6. 6 K. Kundert United States · #678,519 worldwide 3.1k citations · 53 works
  7. 7 Bishnupriya Bhattacharya United States · #829,117 worldwide 1.1k citations · 40 works
  8. 8 Joel R. Phillips United States · #943,876 worldwide 4.8k citations · 137 works
  9. 9 Ken L. McMillan United States · #1,055,042 worldwide 1.2k citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Dennis J.-H. Huang United States · #1,125,724 worldwide 990 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Cadence Design Systems (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Cadence Design Systems (United States) is "Symbolic model checking" (Emma L. Clarke, K. McMillan, Sérgio Campos et al., 1996), with 2,856 citations. Next come "Interpolation and SAT-Based Model Checking" (917) and "HYTECH: a model checker for hybrid systems" (776).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Symbolic model checking Emma L. Clarke, K. McMillan, Sérgio Campos et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1996 2,856
2 Interpolation and SAT-Based Model Checking Kenneth L. McMillan · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2003 917
3 HYTECH: a model checker for hybrid systems Thomas A. Henzinger, Pei-Hsin Ho, Howard Wong-Toi · International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer Dec 1997 776
4 A precorrected-FFT method for electrostatic analysis of complicated 3-D structures Joel R. Phillips, Jacob White · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 1997 731
5 Translating Pseudo-Boolean Constraints into SAT Niklas Eén, Niklas Sörensson · Journal on Satisfiability Boolean Modeling and Computation Open access Mar 2006 590
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Cadence Design Systems (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Large-Eddy Simulation, Heat Transfer, Economic Development, Digital Divide, ICT, Regulation, Broadband and Telecommunications.

▲ 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. Large-Eddy Simulation15▲ 44×5 topics
  2. Heat Transfer11▲ 12×8 topics
  3. Economic Development10▲ 6.8×4 topics
  4. Digital Divide9▲ 19×5 topics
  5. ICT9▲ 36×3 topics
  6. Regulation9▲ 8.8×2 topics
  7. Broadband8▲ 124×1 topic
  8. Telecommunications8▲ 116×1 topic
  9. FPGA8▲ 114×2 topics
  10. Power Optimization8▲ 156×2 topics
  11. Thermal Management7▲ 12×6 topics
  12. Adaptive Mesh Refinement7▲ 62×2 topics
  13. High-Order Schemes7▲ 62×2 topics
  14. Turbulent Flow6▲ 29×4 topics
  15. Assembly Planning6▲ 49×1 topic
  16. CMOS Technology6▲ 42×4 topics
  17. Design for Manufacture6▲ 49×1 topic
  18. Vortex Dynamics6▲ 28×3 topics
  19. Shock-Wave Interactions6▲ 80×1 topic
  20. Turbulence Modeling6▲ 80×1 topic
  21. Embedded Cores6▲ 208×1 topic
  22. Test Data Compression6▲ 208×1 topic
  23. Interconnect6▲ 185×1 topic
  24. Through-Silicon Via6▲ 185×1 topic
  25. CMOS Design5▲ 135×2 topics
  26. ASIC5▲ 279×1 topic
  27. Placement5▲ 279×1 topic
  28. Fluid Mechanics5▲ 39×2 topics
  29. Boundary Layer Transition5▲ 41×1 topic
  30. Particle Image Velocimetry5▲ 41×1 topic
  31. Turbulent Flows5▲ 28×2 topics
  32. Integrated Circuits5▲ 18×3 topics
  33. Fault Tolerance5▲ 16×4 topics
  34. Boundary Layer4▲ 19×3 topics
  35. Parallel Computing4▲ 19×3 topics
  36. Process Variation4▲ 37×2 topics
  37. Flow Control4▲ 37×2 topics
  38. Machine Vision4▲ 9.8×3 topics
  39. High-Performance Computing4▲ 25×2 topics
  40. Materials4▲ 8.6×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: ICT Impact and Policies, Manufacturing Process and Optimization, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics and VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing.

ICT Impact and Policies8ICT Impact and Policies: 8 fractional worksManufacturing Process an…6Manufacturing Process and Optimization: 6 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dyna…6Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 6 fractional worksVLSI and Analog Circuit …6VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing: 6 fractional works3D IC and TSV technologies: 6 fractional worksVLSI and FPGA Design Techniques: 5 fractional worksFluid Dynamics and Turbu…5Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows: 5 fractional worksAerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows: 4 fractional worksAdditive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies: 3 fractional worksLow-power high-performance VLSI design: 3 fractional works
Media TechnologyIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringComputational MechanicsHardware and Architecture3 others

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

  1. 1 ICT Impact and Policies Media Technology 8 works
  2. 2 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 6 works
  3. 3 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 6 works
  4. 4 VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing Hardware and Architecture 6 works
  5. 5 3D IC and TSV technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 6 works
  6. 6 VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  7. 7 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 5 works
  8. 8 Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows Aerospace Engineering 4 works
  9. 9 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies Automotive Engineering 3 works
  10. 10 Low-power high-performance VLSI design Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 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 available13.9%not open86.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.9%domestic only79.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Cadence Design Systems (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00078% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Cadence Design Systems (United States)0.00071% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cadence Design 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 counting10%20%30%Cadence Design Systems (United States)11.3% 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 24.8% in 1996.

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